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 Road race, UCI Road World Championships

2nd Overall Paris–Nice

2nd GP Ouest–France

2000

1st Road race, National Road Championships

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

1st Road race, National Road Championships

External links

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