Heiri Suter

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Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter (10 July 1899  – 6 November 1978) was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won Paris–Roubaix, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year.{{Cite web|url=http://bikeraceinfo.com/classics/paris-roubaix/pr1923.html |title=24th Paris – Roubaix, 1923 |access-date=2 April 2015 |work=bikeraceinfo}} He also holds a record six victories in Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland's most important one-day race.

Suter won 58 professional races, including:

  • Grand Prix Wolber (unofficial world championship): (1922, 1925)
  • Road champion of Switzerland: (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1929){{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=1236 |title=National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men) |access-date=11 March 2015 |work=Cycling Archives}}
  • motor-paced champion of Switzerland: (1932, 1933)
  • Züri-Metzgete: (1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929)
  • Paris–Roubaix: (1923)
  • Tour of Flanders: (1923)
  • Bordeaux–Paris (1925)
  • Paris–Tours: (1926, 1927)

Career

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;1919

: 1st – Züri-Metzgete

: 1st — Grand Prix Aurore

: 1st — Tour de Zürich

;1920

: {{SUI}} National road champion

: 1st – Züri-Metzgete

: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest

;1921

: {{SUI}} 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 Genève

;1922

: 1st – Grand Prix Wolber

: {{SUI}} 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 – Tour of Flanders

: 1st – Paris–Roubaix

: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest

: 1st — Zürich-Munich

: 1st — Prix de Genève

;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 Genève

;1925

: 1st – Grand Prix Wolber

: 1st – Bordeaux–Paris

: 1st — Circuit de Champagne

: 1st — Circuit du Vaudois

;1926

: {{SUI}} 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

: {{SUI}} National road champion

: 1st – Züri-Metzgete

: 1st — Tour du Nord-Ouest

: 1st — Tour du Lac Léman

: 1st — Circuit Franco-Suisse

;1932

: {{SUI}} National motor-paced champion

;1933

: {{SUI}} National motor-paced champion

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References

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