Pascal Richard

Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a 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.

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 classics 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 titles in the 1994 Tour de Suisse and the 1993 and 1994 Tour de Romandie.

Major results

1985

1st Stage 7b 1986

1st Stage 5b Vuelta a Asturias 1987 3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell 1st Stage 1 1988

1989

1st Stage 16 Tour de France 6th Grand Prix des Amériques 1990 1st Tre Valli Varesine 2nd Giro di Lombardia 2nd Giro del Veneto 9th Clásica de San Sebastián 1991 1st Trofeo Laigueglia 1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue & Stage 6 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse 2nd Tre Valli Varesine 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen La Méditerranéenne 4th Coppa Bernocchi 1993

1st Stage 3 1st Giro di Lombardia 1st Giro del Lazio 1st Giro della Romagna 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse 2nd Giro dell'Emilia 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 1st Stage 4 4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 5th Overall Critérium International 1st Stage 1 8th Giro del Veneto 1994

1st Stage 3

1st Stages 3 & 5 (ITT) Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 21 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 1st Tour du Lac Léman 2nd Giro di Toscana 2nd Tour de Berne 3rd Giro di Lombardia 4th Trofeo Pantalica 5th Milano–Torino 7th Overall Paris–Nice 1st Stage 5 7th Züri-Metzgete 1995 Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 13 & 19 1st Giro del Lazio 1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 1st Trofeo Melinda 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 8th Giro di Lombardia 1996

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1st Stage 12 Tour de France 1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia 2nd Klasika Primavera 6th Tour de Berne 1998 3rd Overall À travers Lausanne 5th Giro di Lombardia 8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni 10th Giro del Trentino 1st Stage 4 1999 1st Criterium d'Abruzzo 1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse 5th Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca 6th Tour de Berne 7th Coppa Sabatini 2000 4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish