Gösta Pettersson

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.

Of the Grand Tours he preferred to ride the Giro, competing from 1970 to 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 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.

Major results

1962 National Road Championships

2nd Road race 2nd Overall Tour de Tunisie 1st Stage 4 1963 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1964 National Road Championships

3rd Road race 1st Overall Tour de Tunisie 7th Road race, Summer Olympics 1966 National Road Championships

1967

National Road Championships

1st Overall Tour du Maroc 1st Scandinavian Race Uppsala 2nd Overall Tour de Berlin 1968

National Road Championships

2nd Road race 1st Overall Milk Race 1st Stages 1a (ITT), 1b & 8b (ITT) 2nd Overall Tour of Yugoslavia Summer Olympics

1969

National Road Championships

1st Overall Tour d'Algérie 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Prologue 1970 1st Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 4b (ITT) 1st Coppa Sabatini 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson) 1st Stage 1b (ITT) Cronostaffetta 2nd GP Lugano 2nd GP Forli 3rd Overall Tour de France 5th Giro di Romagna 5th Overall Giro di Sardegna 6th Overall Giro d'Italia 9th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore 9th GP Alghero 1971 1st Overall Giro d'Italia 1st Giro dell'Appennino 2nd Overall Paris–Nice 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson) 2nd GP Lugano 2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna 2nd Baden–Baden (with Tomas Pettersson) 3rd Milan–San Remo 3rd GP Forli 7th Giro dell'Emilia 7th Trofeo Laigueglia 1972 2nd Giro di Puglia 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson) 3rd GP Forli 6th Overall Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 7 6th Overall Tour de Romandie 9th Milan–San Remo 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 9th Giro dell'Emilia 1973 1st Stage 1b (ITT) Cronostaffetta 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Davide Boifava) 3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna 7th Overall Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 8b (ITT) 8th Overall Tour de Romandie 10th Giro dell'Emilia 1974 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Martín Emilio Rodríguez) 4th Overall Volta a Catalunya 4th GP Lugano 6th Giro di Toscana 8th Coppa Placci 10th Overall Giro d'Italia 10th Giro di Campania

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish