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Urs Freuler
Personal information
Full name	Urs Freuler
Born	6 November 1958 (age 66); Bilten, Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Track and Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter, Time Trial Specialist
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1981) Giro d'Italia Points Classification (1984) 15 individual stages (1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989) World Champion Points race (1981 - 1987, 1989); World Champion Keirin (1983, 1985)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing Switzerland
World Championships
Amateur World Championships

Urs Freuler (born 6 November 1958 in Bilten, Canton of Glarus) is a Swiss cyclist, who raced professionally between 1980 and 1997, during which he won 124 victories. He was named Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 1982 and 1983.

He was born in Bilten. As an amateur, he was the champion of his country in several categories and also achieved fame in international competitions.

He was a racer of great speed, who participated both in road races as well as track cycling. In the latter, he was the world champion in the keirin twice and the points race eight times and victor in 21 six-day races. On the road, he was victorious in numerous stages and criteriums. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[1]

In 1981, Freuler was riding for a personal sponsor, when the TI–Raleighcycling team had problems to form a team for the 1981 Tour de France. The rules allowed for the Raleigh team to hire cyclists who were not riding for a cycling team, and Freuler was added to the Tour squad.^[2] Because Freuler, as a still young professional and with contracts for a full winter season of Six Days coming up, his team leader Peter Post and Freuler agreed that Freuler, although capable of taking on mountain stages, had to leave the race before the Alps would be visited.^[3] Freuler, who acted as a replacement for sprinter Jan Raas, was able to win with TI–Raleighthe two team time trials and stage 7, and left the race in stage 15. After that he never started in the Tour again,.^[4]

Freuler, for the chief part of his career riding for Italian teams, did win in another of the three Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia, from 1982 to 1989. In 1982 he won three stages, in 1984 he won four stages and in 1985 he once again claimed three stage victories. In total he won 15 stages in the Giro and also claimed the points classification in 1984.

Major results

Track

World champion of points race in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1989
World champion of Keirin in 1983 and 1985
European champion of sprint in 1981
21 six-day races from 1981 to 1994, with Patrick Sercu, Robert Dill-Bundi, Hans Känel, René Pijnen, Daniel Gisiger, Horst Schütz, Dietrich Thurau, Roman Hermann, Danny Clark, Olaf Ludwig, Remig Stumpf and lastly Carsten Wolf in 1994.
Swiss champion in 1 km time trial in 1981, 1983, 1986, and 1987
Swiss champion of points race in 1981, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992
Swiss champion of individual pursuit in 1985

Road

1981

1st Stage 7 Tour de France

1st Stage 7a Tour de Suisse

Tour de Romandie

1st Prologue & Stage 1

1982

1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3 Giro di Sardegna

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 4, 5 & 10

3rd Nice–Alassio

5th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

1983

1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino

Tour de Suisse

1st Stages 5a & 10

2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna

1st Stage 2

1984

Giro d'Italia

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 2, 7, 8 & 11

3rd Trofeo Baracchi

7th Milano–Torino

9th Grand Prix des Nations

9th Critérium des As

1985

1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

1st Stage 10b Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino

1st Stage 4b Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 1, 13 & 21

4th Milano–Torino

6th Overall Giro di Puglia

1st Stage 2

8th Milan–San Remo

1986

1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami

1st Prologue Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse

6th Giro di Campania

1987

1st Stage 9 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3 Giro di Puglia

1988

1st Stage 21a Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt

1st Stage 2 Étoile de Bessèges

1989

1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 7 & 11

Tour de Romandie

1st Stages 3a & 6

2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

2nd GP Lugano

9th Paris–Roubaix

1990

1st Stage 3 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme

Tour de Romandie

1st Stages 2a & 6

References

^ "Urs Freuler Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
^ "Post wil vaker coureurs op huurbasis aantrekken". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 3 July 1981. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
^ "Freuler voor Alpen verplicht naar huis". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 3 July 1981. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
^ "The Tour: Urs Freuler". Amaury Sports Organisation. Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010.