Leo Amberg

Personal information

Full name

Leo Amberg

Born

23 March 1912
Ballwil, Switzerland

Died

18 September 1999 (aged 87)
Oberriet, Switzerland

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Major wins

Two stages Tour de France
Two stages Giro d'Italia

Medal record

Road bicycle racing
Representing Switzerland
World Championships
	1938 Valkenburg	Elite Men's Road Race

Infobox last updated on
13 March 2015

Leo Amberg (23 March 1912 – 18 September 1999) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his bronze medal in the 1938 Road World Championships. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1937 and 1938.^[1] He also rode in the 1947 Tour de France.^[2]

Palmares

1934

Tour du Canton de Genève

1935

Nice-Saint Tropez

Winner Stage 1

1936

Tour de France:

8th place overall classification

1937

Switzerland Road Race Champion

Züri-Metzgete

Tour de Suisse:

2nd place overall classification

Winner Stages 1, 2 & 6

Tour de France:

3rd place overall classification

Winner Stages 5c & 19b

Giro d'Italia:

13th place, overall classification

1938

Switzerland Road Race Champion

World Road Race Championship

Giro d'Italia

32nd place overall classification

Winner Stage 18a

1939

Winner stage 16, Deutschland Tour

1946

Winner Stage 2, Circuit des Alpes

References

↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
↑ "34ème Tour de France 1947" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2015.

External links

Leo Amberg profile at Cycling Archives
Official Tour de France results for Leo Amberg

Sporting positions
Preceded by Werner Buchwalder	Winner of the Züri-Metzgete 1937	Succeeded by Hans Martin

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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