Swiss cyclistFor the skeleton racer, see Pascal Richard (skeleton racer).

Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a French-speaking Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Major results
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Richard was born in Vevey. At the start of his career, he was a successful cyclo-cross cyclist, becoming world champion in this discipline in 1988. Later on, he switched to road-cycling, and showed a considerable talent for climbing. He won the cl*ics Giro di Lombardia in 1993 and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1996. In 1996 he also gained Olympic gold after winning a sprint in a successful three-man breakaway in the men's road race.

He won the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia and Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France; he captured the overall *les in the 1994 Tour de Suisse and the 1993 and 1994 Tour de Romandie.

Major results

19851st Grand Prix Guillaume Tell1st Stage 7b19861st National Cyclo-cross Championships1st Stage 5b Vuelta a Asturias19873rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell1st Stage 119881st UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships19891st Road race, National Road Championships1st National Cyclo-cross Championships1st Stage 16 Tour de France6th Grand Prix des Amériques19901st Tre Valli Varesine2nd Giro di Lombardia2nd Giro del Veneto9th Clásica de San Sebastián19911st Trofeo Laigueglia1st Stage 2 Tirreno–AdriaticoTour de Romandie1st Prologue & Stage 62nd Overall Tour de Suisse2nd Tre Valli Varesine4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen La Méditerranéenne4th Coppa Bernocchi19931st Road race, National Road Championships1st Overall Tour de Romandie1st Stage 31st Giro di Lombardia1st Giro del Lazio1st Giro della Romagna1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse2nd Giro dell'Emilia4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country4th Overall Settimana InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale di Coppi e Bartali1st Stage 44th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton5th Overall Critérium International1st Stage 18th Giro del Veneto19941st Overall Tour de Suisse1st Stage 31st Overall Tour de Romandie1st Stages 3 & 5 (ITT)Giro d'Italia1st Mountains cl*ification1st Stage 211st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton1st Tour du Lac Léman2nd Giro di Toscana2nd Tour de Berne3rd Giro di Lombardia4th Trofeo Pantalica5th Milano–Torino7th Overall Paris–Nice1st Stage 57th Züri-Metzgete1995Giro d'Italia1st Stages 13 & 191st Giro del Lazio1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton1st Trofeo Melinda1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships8th Giro di Lombardia19961st Road race, Olympic Games1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège1st Stage 12 Tour de France1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia2nd Klasika Primavera6th Tour de Berne19983rd Overall À travers Lausanne5th Giro di Lombardia8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni10th Giro del Trentino1st Stage 419991st Criterium d'Abruzzo1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse5th Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca6th Tour de Berne7th Coppa Sabatini20004th Overall Settimana InterNational Socialist German Workers' Partyonale di Coppi e Bartali

References

External links

• Pascal Richard at Cycling Archives