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Wikipedia / Markus Zberg

Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974, in Altdorf, Uri) is a retired Swiss professional road bicycle racer; he is the younger brother of Beat Zberg. Zberg retired after a severe fall in the Tour de l'Ain. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008.

Career

Zberg became a professional bicycle racer in 1996. After one season each with the Italian teams Carrera and Mercatone Uno–Scanavino and the Post Swiss Team, Zberg joined the Rabobank team in 1999. He took second place at the Road World Championships in Verona in 1999. A year later, he won the title at the Swiss Road Championships. He also won two stages of the 1998 Tour of Spain as well as the one-day races Milan-Turin 1998 and Rund um den Henninger-Turm 2001, stages of the Tour de Suisse, at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Austria.

Major results

  1. 1996

  2. 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

  3. 1997

  4. 1st Stage 7 Tour de Pologne

  5. 1998

  6. Vuelta a España

    1. 1st Stages 1 & 22

    1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

  7. 1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse

  8. 1st Stage 6 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

  9. 1999

  10. 1st Milano–Torino

  11. 2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships

  12. 2nd Overall Paris–Nice

  13. 2nd GP Ouest–France

  14. 2000

  15. 1st Road race, National Road Championships

  16. 3rd Amstel Gold Race

  17. 2001

  18. 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm

  19. 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico

  20. 4th Amstel Gold Race

  21. 2002

  22. 3rd Milan–San Remo

  23. 2003

  24. 3rd Tre Valli Varesine

  25. 2004

  26. 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

  27. 2005

  28. 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm

  29. 2006

  30. 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice

  31. 2008

  32. 1st Road race, National Road Championships

References