Markus Zberg
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Full name | Markus Zberg | ||||||||||||||
Born | Switzerland | June 27, 1974||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Retired | ||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||
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1996 | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni | ||||||||||||||
1997 | Mercatone Uno | ||||||||||||||
1998 | Post Swiss Team | ||||||||||||||
1999–2002 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||
2003–2008 | Gerolsteiner | ||||||||||||||
2009 | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||||
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Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974 in
road bicycle racer; he is the younger brother of Beat Zberg. Zberg retired after a severe fall in the Tour de l'Ain.[1] He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008.[2]
Career
Zberg became a professional bicycle racer in 1996. After one season each with the Italian teams
Milan-Turin 1998 and Rund um den Henninger-Turm 2001, stages of the Tour de Suisse, at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Austria.[3]
Major results
- 1996
- 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
- 1997
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Pologne
- 1998
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 1 & 22
- 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 6 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
- 1999
- 1st Milano–Torino
- 2nd Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 2nd GP Ouest–France
- 2000
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 2001
- 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 4th Amstel Gold Race
- 2002
- 3rd Milan–San Remo
- 2003
- 3rd Tre Valli Varesine
- 2004
- 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 2005
- 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 2006
- 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice
- 2008
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
References
- ^ "Markus Zberg ein Doping-Kunde? Der ehemalige Schweizer Radprofi in Österreich schwer beschuldigt". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 8 October 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ Archives, Cycling. "Markus Zberg". www.radsportseiten.net. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
External links
- Team profile
- Official Website
- Markus Zberg at trap-friis.dk