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Gösta Pettersson
Pettersson c. 1960
Personal information
Full nameGösta Artur Roland Pettersson
Born (1940-10-23) 23 October 1940 (age 84)
Alingsås Municipality, Sweden
Height189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Professional teams
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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
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1968 Mexico City Team road race
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Tokyo Team road race
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Mexico City Individual road race
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1967 Heerlen Team time trial
Gold medal – first place 1968 Imola Team time trial
Gold medal – first place 1969 Zolder Team time trial
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Sallanches Amateur's road race

Gösta Artur Roland 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 bronze-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.

Of the Grand Tours he preferred to ride the Giro, competing from 1970-1974 finishing in the top ten four times, never finishing worse than 13th. He rode the Tour De France in 1970 finishing on the podium behind Eddy Merckx and Joop Zoetemelk.

After finishing atop the podium in the Giro, ahead of Merckx teammate Herman Van Springel and Italian rider Ugo Colombo, he started the 1971 TDF, but abandoned the race prior to reaching the Jaques Anquetil Velodrome.

Pettersson never raced in the Vuelta.

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 6 1 6 13 10
A yellow jersey Tour de France 3 DNF
A red jersey Vuelta a España
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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

External links

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
1920–1939
1940–1959
1960–1979
1980–1999
2000–2019
2020–2039
In 1912, Giro was contested solely by teams, with no individual classification


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