Daniel Gisiger

Daniel Gisiger ( born October 9, 1954 in Baccarat ) is a retired Swiss cyclist and current cycling coach.

In the UCI Track World Championships 1977 in San Cristóbal Daniel Gisiger won two third places in the One - and team pursuit of amateurs ( with Walter Baumgartner, Hans Känel and Robert Dill- Bundi ). In the same year he turned pro, competed in the six-day race in Zurich and finished together with René Pijnen second place. Twice - in 1976 and 1977 - he was Swiss champion in the points race.

Gisiger was an excellent time trialist. As such, he won mainly time trial competitions, such as, inter alia, three times in succession, the Trofeo Baracchi, 1981 Serge Demierre, 1982 Roberto Visentini and 1983 with Silvano Contini; 1981 and 1983 the Grand Prix des Nations and numerous other small races. Twice he won stages of the Giro d' Italia and the Tour de Suisse once each and the Tour de Romandie. In Germany Tour 1981, he won the mountain classification, 1987 at Giro del Lago Maggiore.

Daniel Gisiger launched a total of 40 six-day races, six of which he won. Only four times he won in Zurich (1983, 1984 and 1986, with Urs Freuler and 1988, with Jörg Müller).

After ending his active career in cycling is Gisiger who fluently speaks four languages ​​, worked as a trainer, first in New Caledonia. Since 2007 he works as a Swiss national coach.