Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993.

Biography

Richard was born in Vevey. At the start of his career, he was a successful cyclo-cross cyclist, becoming world champion in this discipline in 1988. Later on, he switched to road-cycling, and showed a considerable talent for climbing. He won the classics Giro di Lombardia in 1993 and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1996. In 1996, he also gained Olympic gold after winning a sprint in a successful three-man breakaway in the men's road race.

He won the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia and Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France; he captured the overall titles in the 1994 Tour de Suisse and the 1993 and 1994 Tour de Romandie.

Major results

1. 1985

2. 1st Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

   1. 1st Stage 7b

   1986

3. 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships

4. 1st Stage 5b Vuelta a Asturias

5. 1987

6. 3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

   1. 1st Stage 1

   1988

7. 1st UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships

8. 1989

9. 1st Road race, National Road Championships

10. 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships

11. 1st Stage 16 Tour de France

12. 6th Grand Prix des Amériques

13. 1990

14. 1st Tre Valli Varesine

15. 2nd Giro di Lombardia

16. 2nd Giro del Veneto

17. 9th Clásica de San Sebastián

18. 1991

19. 1st Trofeo Laigueglia

20. 1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico

21. Tour de Romandie

    1. 1st Prologue & Stage 6

    2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

22. 2nd Tre Valli Varesine

23. 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen La Méditerranéenne

24. 4th Coppa Bernocchi

25. 1993

26. 1st Road race, National Road Championships

27. 1st Overall Tour de Romandie

    1. 1st Stage 3

    1st Giro di Lombardia

28. 1st Giro del Lazio

29. 1st Giro della Romagna

30. 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse

31. 2nd Giro dell'Emilia

32. 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

33. 4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

    1. 1st Stage 4

    4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

34. 5th Overall Critérium International

    1. 1st Stage 1

    8th Giro del Veneto

35. 1994

36. 1st Overall Tour de Suisse

    1. 1st Stage 3

    1st Overall Tour de Romandie

    1. 1st Stages 3 & 5 (ITT)

    Giro d'Italia

    1. 1st Mountains classification

    2. 1st Stage 21

    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

37. 1st Tour du Lac Léman

38. 2nd Giro di Toscana

39. 2nd Tour de Berne

40. 3rd Giro di Lombardia

41. 4th Trofeo Pantalica

42. 5th Milano–Torino

43. 7th Overall Paris–Nice

    1. 1st Stage 5

    7th Züri-Metzgete

44. 1995

45. Giro d'Italia

    1. 1st Stages 13 & 19

    1st Giro del Lazio

46. 1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

47. 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

48. 1st Trofeo Melinda

49. 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice

50. 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

51. 8th Giro di Lombardia

52. 1996

53. 1st Road race, Olympic Games

54. 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

55. 1st Stage 12 Tour de France

56. 1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia

57. 2nd Klasika Primavera

58. 6th Tour de Berne

59. 1998

60. 3rd Overall À travers Lausanne

61. 5th Giro di Lombardia

62. 8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni

63. 10th Giro del Trentino

    1. 1st Stage 4

    1999

64. 1st Criterium d'Abruzzo

65. 1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse

66. 5th Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca

67. 6th Tour de Berne

68. 7th Coppa Sabatini

69. 2000

70. 4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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