Markus Zberg

Markus Zberg (born June 27, 1974, in Altdorf, Uri) is a retired Swiss professional road bicycle racer; he is the younger brother of Beat Zberg. Zberg retired after a severe fall in the Tour de l'Ain. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008.

Career Zberg became a professional bicycle racer in 1996. After one season each with the Italian teams Carrera and Mercatone Uno–Scanavino and the Post Swiss Team, Zberg joined the Rabobank team in 1999. He took second place at the Road World Championships in Verona in 1999. A year later, he won the title at the Swiss Road Championships. He also won two stages of the 1998 Tour of Spain as well as the one-day races Milan-Turin 1998 and Rund um den Henninger-Turm 2001, stages of the Tour de Suisse, at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour of Austria.

Major results

1996 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix Guillaume Tell 1997 1st Stage 7 Tour de Pologne 1998 Vuelta a España 1st Stages 1 & 22 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau 1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 6 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda 1999 1st Milano–Torino

2nd Overall Paris–Nice 2nd GP Ouest–France 2000

3rd Amstel Gold Race 2001 1st Rund um den Henninger Turm 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico 4th Amstel Gold Race 2002 3rd Milan–San Remo 2003 3rd Tre Valli Varesine 2004 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 2005 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm 2006 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice 2008