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Erich Mächler
Personal information
Full name	Erich Mächler
Born	(1960-09-24) 24 September 1960 (age 64) Hochdorf, Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1982	Royal-Wrangler [ca]
1983–1984	Cilo–Aufina
1985–1991	Carrera–Inoxpran
1992	Helvetia–Fichtel & Sachs
1993	Jolly Componibili–Club 88
1994–1995	Parkpre–Tange
1994–1995	Inoac–Deki

Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1986) 1 TTT stage (1987) Stage races Tirreno–Adriatico (1988) One-day races and Classics Milan–San Remo (1987) National Road Race Championships (1984)

Erich Mächler (also spelled Maechler) (born 24 September 1960 in Hochdorf) is a former professional Swiss cyclist. In the 1987 Tour de France, he wore the yellow jersey for 6 days. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1984 and won the 1987 Milan–San Remo and the 1988 Tirreno–Adriatico.

Major results

1982

1st Tour du Nord-Ouest

1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse

2nd Trofeo Luis Puig

6th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

1983

1st Grand Prix de Mendrisio

1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse

2nd GP Lugano

3rd Grand Prix La Marseillaise

4th Züri-Metzgete

6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1984

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 2

1985

2nd GP du canton d'Argovie

8th Trofeo Pantalica

1986

1st Stage 21 Tour de France

1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1987

1st Milan–San Remo

Tour de France

1st Stage 2 (TTT)

Held

Stages 3–9

1st Prologue & Stage 3b (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Paris–Nice

1988

1st

Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stages 2 & 6b (ITT)

1st

Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

1st Stage 4b (ITT)

1st Volta al Camp Morverde

5th Overall Three Days of de Panne

8th Milan–San Remo

1989

8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 4

1990

2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4

2nd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

7th Tre Valli Varesine

1992

1st Tour du Nord-Ouest

1994

2nd Japan Cup

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
Giro d'Italia	91	—	—	23	—	—	DNF	—	—	—	—	120
Tour de France	—	106	84	114	49	85	136	117	130	128	DNF	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	58	—	75	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

"Cyclist from Portugal wins 3rd stage of Tour de France". The Deseret News. 5 July 1987. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
"Tour de France". Los Angeles Times. 8 July 1987. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
"Tour de France Da Silva Wins 3rd Stage; Maechler Takes Lead". Los Angeles Times. 5 July 1987. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
"National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

External links

Erich Maechler at Cycling Archives (archived)
Erich Maechler at ProCyclingStats
Erich Maechler at CycleBase

Milan–San Remo winners

1900–1919
1907: Lucien Petit-Breton (FRA) 1908: Cyrille van Hauwaert (BEL) 1909: Luigi Ganna (ITA) 1910: Eugène Christophe (FRA) 1911: Gustave Garrigou (FRA) 1912: Henri Pélissier (FRA) 1913: Odile Defraye (BEL) 1914: Ugo Agostoni (ITA) 1915: Ezio Corlaita (ITA) 1916: not held due to World War I 1917: Gaetano Belloni (ITA) 1918: Costante Girardengo (ITA) 1919: Angelo Gremo (ITA)

1920–1939

1940–1959

1940: Gino Bartali (ITA)
1941: Pierino Favalli (ITA)
1942: Adolfo Leoni (ITA)
1943: Cino Cinelli (ITA)
1944: not held due to World War II
1945: not held due to World War II
1946: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1947: Gino Bartali (ITA)
1948: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1949: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1950: Gino Bartali (ITA)
1951: Louison Bobet (FRA)
1952: Loretto Petrucci (ITA)
1953: Loretto Petrucci (ITA)
1954: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL)
1955: Germain Derijcke (BEL)
1956: Fred De Bruyne (BEL)
1957: Miguel Poblet (ESP)
1958: Rik Van Looy (BEL)
1959: Miguel Poblet (ESP)

1960–1979

1980–1999

2000–2019

2020–2039
2020: Wout Van Aert (BEL) 2021: Jasper Stuyven (BEL) 2022: Matej Mohorič (SLO) 2023: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2024: Jasper Philipsen (BEL)

v t e Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)
1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)
1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)
1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)
1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)
2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021) Robin Froidevaux (2022) Marc Hirschi (2023) Mauro Schmid (2024)

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