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Road bicycle racer
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
19 August 1932(Unterentfelden)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Rolf Graf (born 19 August 1932) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was protected by Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler.
He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956. In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career.
Major results
- 1954
- Gent–Wevelgem
- 1955
- Locarno
- 1956
Switzerland national road race championship- Tour de Suisse
- Trofeo Baracchi (with André Darrigade)
- 1957
- Basel
- 1958
- GP du Locle
- 1959
- Switzerland national road race championship
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 22
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 12 and 19
- 1960
- Nice
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 19
- Trofeo Longines (with Guido Carlesi, Silvano Ciampi, Emile Daems and Alfredo Sabbadin)
- 1962
- Switzerland national road race championship
- Berner Rundfahrt