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Swiss cyclist (1926–1997)

Fritz Schär

Personal information

Full name

Fritz Schär

Born

(1926-03-13)13 March 1926
Kaltenbach, Switzerland

Died

29 September 1997(1997-09-29) (aged 71)
Frauenfeld, Switzerland

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France

Points classification (1953)

2 individual stages (1953)

Giro d'Italia

2 individual stages (1950, 1952)

One-day races and Classics

Züri-Metzgete (1949, 1950)

Medal record

Representing Switzerland

Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
	1954 Solingen	Elite Men's Road Race

Fritz Schär (13 March 1926 in Kaltenbach – 29 September 1997 in Frauenfeld) was a Swiss cyclist who in 1953 won the first points classification ever in the Tour de France. He also finished third in the general classification in the 1954 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1953.

Major results

1948

3rd Giro di Lombardia

1949

1st Züri-Metzgete

1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse

4th Overall Tour de Romandie

1950

1st Züri-Metzgete

1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia

1951

3rd Overall Tour de Romandie

4th Overall Tour de Suisse

1952

1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia

5th Overall Tour de Romandie

7th Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 2

1953

2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 1

4th Overall Tour de Romandie

6th Overall Tour de France

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 1 & 2

1954

2nd

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

3rd Overall Tour de France

4th Overall Tour de Romandie

9th Overall Giro d'Italia

1955

1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse

1956

2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 7

References

"National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

External links

Fritz Schär at Cycling Archives (archived)

v t e Tour de France points classification winners
1953: Fritz Schär 1954: Ferdinand Kübler 1955–1956: Stan Ockers 1957: Jean Forestier 1958: Jean Graczyk 1959: André Darrigade 1960: Jean Graczyk 1961: André Darrigade 1962: Rudi Altig 1963: Rik Van Looy 1964–1965: Jan Janssen 1966: Willy Planckaert 1967: Jan Janssen 1968: Franco Bitossi 1969: Eddy Merckx 1970: Walter Godefroot 1971–1972: Eddy Merckx 1973: Herman Vanspringel 1974: Patrick Sercu 1975: Rik Van Linden 1976: Freddy Maertens 1977: Jacques Esclassan 1978: Freddy Maertens 1979: Bernard Hinault 1980: Rudy Pevenage 1981: Freddy Maertens 1982–1983: Sean Kelly 1984: Frank Hoste 1985: Sean Kelly 1986: Eric Vanderaerden 1987: Jean-Paul van Poppel 1988: Eddy Planckaert 1989: Sean Kelly 1990: Olaf Ludwig 1991: Djamolidine Abdoujaparov 1992: Laurent Jalabert 1993–1994: Djamolidine Abdoujaparov 1995: Laurent Jalabert 1996–2001: Erik Zabel 2002: Robbie McEwen 2003: Baden Cooke 2004: Robbie McEwen 2005: Thor Hushovd 2006: Robbie McEwen 2007: Tom Boonen 2008: Óscar Freire 2009: Thor Hushovd 2010: Alessandro Petacchi 2011: Mark Cavendish 2012–2016: Peter Sagan 2017: Michael Matthews 2018–2019: Peter Sagan 2020: Sam Bennett 2021: Mark Cavendish 2022: Wout van Aert 2023: Jasper Philipsen 2024: Biniam Girmay

Tour de France points classification winners

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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