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	== Results and teams ==
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	;1964 (amateur)
	: 3rd (Bronze) – ] – 100 km Team Time Trial
	: 3rd (Bronze) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 185 km Men's Road Race
	;1967 (amateur)
	: 1st (Gold) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 100 km Team Time Trial
	;1968 (amateur)
	: 1st (Gold) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 100 km Team Time Trial
	: 2nd (Silver) – ] – 100 km Team Time Trial
	: 3rd (Bronze) – ] – Men's Road Race
	: 1st overall – ]
	;1969 (amateur)
	: 1st (Gold) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 100 km Team Time Trial
	;1970 – Ferretti
	: 1st Overall – ]
	: 1st – ]
	: 3rd Overall – ]
	: 1st – ] (with ])
	;1971 – Ferretti
	: ]1st Overall – ]
	: 1st Overall – ]
	: 1st Overall – Giro delle Marche
	;1973 – Scic
	: 7th Overall – ]
	:: Winner stage 8b
	;1974 – Magniflex
	: 2nd Overall – Tour de Suisse
	{{colend}}

	=== Grand Tours overall classification results timeline ===		=== Grand Tours overall classification results timeline ===

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Gösta Pettersson

Personal information

Full name

Gösta Pettersson

Born

(1940-10-23) 23 October 1940 (age 84)
Alingsås Municipality, Sweden

Height

189 cm (6 ft 2 in)

Weight

75 kg (165 lb)

Team information

Current team

Retired

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Rider type

Overall rider

Professional teams

1970–1972

Ferretti

1973

Scic

1974

Magniflex

Major wins

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia

General Classification (1971)

1 Stage (1972)

Tour de Romandie (1970)

Tour de Suisse – 1 stage (1973)

Medal record

Representing Sweden

Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
	1968 Mexico City	Team road race
	1964 Tokyo	Team road race
	1968 Mexico City	Individual road race
World Championships
	1964 Sallanches	Amateur's road race
	1967 Heerlen	Team time trial
	1968 Imola	Team time trial
	1969 Zolder	Team time trial

Gösta Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.

Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum brothers. They won the World Amateur Cycling Championships in 1967–1969 and a team silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics; three of the brothers were also part of the silver-winning road team at the 1964 Games. In 1967 they were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

After the 1969 World Championships the Fåglum brothers turned professional. In 1970 Gösta won the Tour de Romandie, Coppa Sabatini and Trofeo Baracchi (with brother Tomas), and finished third at the Tour de France and sixth at the Giro d'Italia. Next year he won the Giro d'Italia, Giro dell'Appennino and Giro delle Marche. He finished sixth at the 1972 Giro d'Italia and seventh at the 1973 Tour de Suisse. His last major success was second place at the 1974 Tour de Suisse.

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974
Giro	6	1	6	13	10
Tour	3	WD	-	-	-
Vuelta	-	-	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew

References

"Gösta Pettersson". sports-reference.com.
^ Gösta Pettersson. Swedish Olympic Committee
Gösta Pettersson at Cycling Archives (archived)

External links

Official Tour de France results for Gösta Pettersson

Awards
Preceded byKurt Johansson	Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal with Erik Petterson, Sture Petterson and Tomas Petterson 1967	Succeeded byToini Gustafsson-Rönnlund

Giro d'Italia general classification winners

1900–1919
1909: Luigi Ganna (ITA) 1910: Carlo Galetti (ITA) 1911: Carlo Galetti (ITA) 1912:* Atala–Dunlop (Galetti, Micheletto, Pavesi) 1913: Carlo Oriani (ITA) 1914: Alfonso Calzolari (ITA) 1915: Not held due to World War I 1916: Not held due to World War I 1917: Not held due to World War I 1918: Not held due to World War I 1919: Costante Girardengo (ITA)