Heiri Suter
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Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter was a professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland
. In 1923, he was first to win Paris–Roubaix and the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the same year.
Suter had 58 professional wins, including:
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1929
1932
1933
Switzerland
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. In 1923, he was first to win Paris–Roubaix and the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the same year.
Suter had 58 professional wins, including:
- Grand Prix WolberGP WolberThe GP Wolber was a French cycling event in the 1920s. It was considered a kind of unofficial World Championship. Only cyclists who finished in the top-3 of the major French, Italian, Belgian and Swiss races were invited. The first GP Wolber was held in 1922. When the World Cycling Championship was...
(unofficial world championship) (1922, 1925) - road champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929)
- motor-paced champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933)
- Züri-Metzgete: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929)
- Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927)
- Paris–Roubaix (1923)
- Ronde van Vlaanderen (1923)
- Bordeaux–Paris (1925)
Career
1919- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st - Tour de Zürich
1920
- National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
1921
- National road champion
- 1st - Grand Prix Aurore
- 1st - Tour de Zürich
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Genève-Zürich
- 1st - Tour de Suisse Orientale
- 1st - Prix de Génève
1922
- 1st - Grand Prix WolberGP WolberThe GP Wolber was a French cycling event in the 1920s. It was considered a kind of unofficial World Championship. Only cyclists who finished in the top-3 of the major French, Italian, Belgian and Swiss races were invited. The first GP Wolber was held in 1922. When the World Cycling Championship was...
- National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Circuit de Neuchâtel
- 1st - Circuit de Fribourg
- 1st - Circuit du Vaudois
- 1st - Munich-Zürich
- 1st, 2 stages - Paris-Saint-Etienne
1923
- 1st - Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 1st - Paris–Roubaix
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Zürich-Munich
- 1st - Prix de Génève
1924
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Circuit de Champagne (1st, 2 Stages)
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Grand Prix Griffon
- 1st - Zürich-La Chaux-de-Fonds
- 1st, 3 stages - Bordeaux-Marseille
- 1st - Prix de Génève
1925
- 1st - Grand Prix WolberGP WolberThe GP Wolber was a French cycling event in the 1920s. It was considered a kind of unofficial World Championship. Only cyclists who finished in the top-3 of the major French, Italian, Belgian and Swiss races were invited. The first GP Wolber was held in 1922. When the World Cycling Championship was...
- 1st - Bordeaux–Paris
- 1st - Circuit de Champagne
- 1st - Circuit du Vaudois
1926
- National road champion
- 1st - Paris–Tours
- 1st - Tour de Cologne
- 1st - Circuit de Cologne
- 1st - Tour de Francfort
- 1st - Tour du Württemberg
- 1st - Circuit de la Montagne
- 1st - Grand Prix Yverdon
1927
- 1st - Paris–Tours
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Grand Prix Yverdon
- 1st - Tour de Francfort
1928
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
1929
- National road champion
- 1st - Züri-Metzgete
- 1st - Tour du Nord-Ouest
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
- 1st - Circuit Franco-Suisse
1929
- 1st - Tour du Lac Léman
1932
- National motor-paced champion
1933
- National motor-paced champion