Gösta Pettersson

Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson ( born November 23, 1940 in Alingsås ) is a Swedish former racing cyclist.

The oldest of the Pettersson brothers stood since 1960 in the Swedish national team of amateurs and was already in the Olympic year as a 19- year-old participants in the Road Racing World Championship at the Sachsenring in the GDR. In 1961, he came on the 13th place at the Peace Race ( Course de la Paix ), and then challenged the Tour de l' Avenir. In 1962 he finished second overall in the Tour of Tunisia and gave early in the peace momentum. In 1964 he took the overall victory in the Tour of Tunisia ( to later professional stars such as Lucien Aimar and Walter Godefroot ), as well as in Morocco Tour 1967.

Gösta Pettersson won together with his brothers Erik Sture and Tomas in the streets - Cycling World Championships from 1967 to 1969 each in the team time trial; The quartet was known as the " Fåglum Brothers " known, named after the first club for which they started. At the Olympic Summer Games in 1964, three of the four brothers won jointly with Sven Hamrin bronze, and Gösta Pettersson bronze in the individual road race. At the games in 1968, all four brothers together won silver and at the track world championships in the same year in Montevideo were three of them, together with Jupp Ripfel instead of Sture, third in the team pursuit on the track.

Pettersson's professional career began in 1970 with the Italian cycling team Ferretti, whose support he could immediately terminate the Tour de Romandie as the winner. His greatest successes were the third place at the Tour de France in 1970 and winning the overall title of the Giro d' Italia in 1971. The Tour de France in 1971, he played a second time, but had to retire prematurely. His strength as a time trial specialist, he proved with his youngest brother Tomas in 1970 when he dominated the Trofeo Baracchi - 1971 they were in this race second and 1972 third party. Gösta won in the five years of his professional career, six more road races and missed nearly 1974 victory at the Tour de Suisse. At the Giro d' Italia, he landed on the 10th place overall and finished in the same year his active career at the age of almost 34 years ..

Results and teams

Professional teams

  • 2nd Tour de Suisse
  • Giro d' Italia
  • Apennine tour
  • Tour de Romandie
  • Coppa Sabatini
  • 3 Tour de France
  • Trofeo Baracchi with Tomas Pettersson

Amateur

  • Gold Road World Championships 100 km road quad
  • Gold Road World Championships 100 km road quad
  • Silver Summer Olympic Games 1968 100 km of road quad
  • Bronze Summer Olympic Games 1968 road race
  • Milk Race
  • Gold Road World Championships 100 km road quad
  • Morocco Tour
  • Bronze Summer Olympic Games 1964 - 100 km of road quad
  • Bronze Road World Championships road race
  • Tunisia Tour
Tour du Maroc Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics 1970 Tour de France Giro dell'Appennino Italy Severino Andreoli Pietro Guerra Verner Blaudzun Lucjan Lis Ryszard Szurkowski Bernt Johansson Aavo Pikkuus Bert Oosterbosch Bernd Drogan Hans-Joachim Hartnick Falk Boden Andreas Petermann Mario Kummer Olaf Ludwig John Talen Eros Poli Flavio Vanzella Maik Landsmann Jan Schur Luca Colombo (cyclist) Gianfranco Contri Andrea Peron Luigi Ganna Carlo Galetti Atala (company) Carlo Oriani Alfonso Calzolari Costante Girardengo Gaetano Belloni Giuseppe Enrici Alfredo Binda Luigi Marchisio Antonio Pesenti Learco Guerra Vasco Bergamaschi Giovanni Valetti Fausto Coppi Fiorenzo Magni Hugo Koblet Carlo Clerici Charly Gaul Gastone Nencini Ercole Baldini Jacques Anquetil Arnaldo Pambianco Gianni Motta Fausto Bertoglio Michel Pollentier Giuseppe Saronni Bernard Hinault Giovanni Battaglin Francesco Moser Roberto Visentini Stephen Roche Andrew Hampsten Gianni Bugno Ivan Gotti Marco Pantani Gilberto Simoni Paolo Savoldelli Damiano Cunego Ivan Basso Danilo Di Luca Alberto Contador Michele Scarponi Bernhard Britz Tommy Prim Michael Andersson (cyclist) Marcus Ljungqvist Jonas Ljungblad
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