Heiri Suter

Heiri Suter in 1926
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Born	(1899-07-10)10 July 1899 Gränichen, Switzerland
Died	6 November 1978(1978-11-06) (aged 79) Bülach, Switzerland
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Role	Rider

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.^[1] 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)^[2]
• 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)

• Heiri Suter at Cycling Archives (archived)

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