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Swiss cyclist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[1] He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2000 and 2008.[2]
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Full name | Markus Zberg | ||||||||||||||
Born | Switzerland | June 27, 1974||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Retired | ||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||
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1996 | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni | ||||||||||||||
1997 | Mercatone Uno | ||||||||||||||
1998 | Post Swiss Team | ||||||||||||||
1999–2002 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||
2003–2008 | Gerolsteiner | ||||||||||||||
2009 | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||||
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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.[3]