Hans Knecht

Personal information

Full name

Hans Knecht

Born

September 26, 1913
Albisrieden, Switzerland

Died

March 8, 1986 (aged 72)
Zürich, Switzerland

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Medal record

Road bicycle racing
Competitor for Switzerland
World Championships
	1946 Zürich	Elite Men's Road Race
	1938 Valkenburg	Amateur's Road Race

Infobox last updated on
April 7, 2009

Hans Knecht (26 September 1913 in Albisrieden – 8 March 1986 in Zürich) was a Swiss professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was winning the World Cycling Championship in 1946. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1943, 1946 and 1947.^[1] He was a professional cyclist from 1939 to 1949.

References

↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

External links

Hans Knecht profile at Cycling Archives

UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race

1927: Binda
1928–29: Ronsse
1930: Binda
1931: Guerra
1932: Binda
1933: Speicher
1934: Kaers
1935: Aerts
1936: Magne
1937: Meulenberg
1938: Kint
1946: Knecht
1947: Middelkamp
1948: Schotte
1949: Van Steenbergen
1950: Schotte
1951: Kübler
1952: Müller
1953: Coppi
1954: Bobet
1955: Ockers
1956–57: Van Steenbergen
1958: Baldini
1959: Darrigade
1960–61: Van Looy
1962: Stablinski
1963: Beheyt
1964: Janssen
1965: Simpson
1966: Altig
1967: E. Merckx
1968: Adorni
1969: Ottenbros
1970: Monseré
1971: E. Merckx
1972: M. Basso
1973: Gimondi
1974: E. Merckx
1975: Kuiper
1976: Maertens
1977: F. Moser
1978: Knetemann
1979: Raas
1980: B. Hinault
1981: Maertens
1982: Saronni
1983: LeMond
1984: Criquielion
1985: Zoetemelk
1986: Argentin
1987: S. Roche
1988: Fondriest
1989: LeMond
1990: Dhaenens
1991: Bugno–92: Bugno
1993: Armstrong
1994: Leblanc
1995: Olano
1996: Museeuw
1997: Brochard
1998: Camenzind
1999: Freire
2000: Vainšteins
2001: Freire
2002: Cipollini
2003: Astarloa
2004: Freire
2005: Boonen
2006–07: Bettini
2008: Ballan
2009: Evans
2010: Hushovd
2011: Cavendish
2012: Gilbert
2013: Costa
2014: Kwiatkowski
2015: Sagan

Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)

1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)

1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)

1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)

1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)

1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)

1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)

2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015)

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