Michael Schär

Michael Schär
Personal information
Schär at the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
Full name	Michael Schär
Born	(1986-09-29) 29 September 1986 Geuensee, Switzerland
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Team information
Current team	BMC Racing Team
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2007–2009	Astana
2010–	BMC Racing Team
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 TTT stage (2015) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2013)
Infobox last updated on 11 August 2013

Michael Schär (born 29 September 1986 in Geuensee) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team.^[1]

He has competed in the 2009 Vuelta a España, the 2010 Giro d'Italia and the 2011 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2013.^[2] He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[3] His father Roland was also an Olympic cyclist.^[3]

Career achievements

Major results

2004

1st

National Junior Time Trial Championships

2005

1st

National Under-23 Time Trial Championships

2006

1st

National Under-23 Time Trial Championships

10th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften

2007

1st Young rider classification Sachsen Tour

2012

9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

2013

1st

National Road Race Championships

7th Overall Tour of Qatar

1st Stage 2 (TTT)

7th Overall Tour of Utah

2014

1st Stage 2 Tour of Utah

2015

1st Stage 3 (TTT) Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Stage 9 (TTT) Tour de France

2016

2nd Overall Tour des Fjords

10th Overall Tour of Qatar

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro	-	99	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour	-	-	103	49	WD	43	56	76
Vuelta	110	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

References

↑ Gregor Brown (1 September 2009). "BMC strengthens team for 2010 with World Champ Ballan and USA's Hincapie". Cycling News. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
1 2 "Michael Schär Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-05-01.

External links

Media related to Michael Schär at Wikimedia Commons

Profile at BMC Racing Team official website
Michael Schär profile at ProCyclingStats

Riders on BMC Racing Team

Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)

1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)

1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)

1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)

1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)

1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)

1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)

2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016)

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