Oscar Camenzind

Oscar Camenzind
	Camenzind at the 1997 Paris–Nice
Personal information
Full name	Oscar Camenzind
Born	12 September 1971 (age 53); Schwyz, Switzerland
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Puncheur
Professional teams
1996	Panaria–Vinavil
1997–1998	Mapei–GB
1999–2001	Lampre–Daikin
2002–2004	Phonak
Major wins
	Stage Races Tour de Suisse (2000) One-day Races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1998) National Road Race Championships (1997) Giro di Lombardia (1998) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2001)
Medal record
Men's Road bicycle racing
Representing Switzerland
UCI Road World Championships

Oscar Camenzind (born 12 September 1971) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. He became national road champion in 1997.^[1] In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 the Tour de Suisse and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2001. His career came to an abrupt end when he retired from pro cycling after a positive doping test in July 2004 for erythropoietin, leading into the Athens Olympics.^[2] After confessing to the use, in 2005 he was sued in Swiss court in order to name his supplier, which he refused to do fearing retribution.^[3]

Major Results

1989

2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships

1994

2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto

1996

2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Stages 2, 3b & 4

2nd À travers Lausanne

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

7th Overall Giro di Puglia

1997

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st

Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Stage 4b

1st Breitling Grand Prix (with Johan Museeuw)

2nd Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Prologue & Stage 8

3rd Overall Tour of Austria

1st Prologue & Stage 5

4th Overall À travers Lausanne

4th Rund um Köln

1998

1st

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st Giro di Lombardia

2nd Milano–Torino

2nd Tour de Berne

3rd GP du canton d'Argovie

4th Overall Giro d'Italia

6th Trofeo Melinda

1999

1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino

3rd Tour de Berne

4th Giro di Lombardia

4th La Flèche Wallonne

4th Gran Premio di Chiasso

4th Breitling Grand Prix (with Marco Serpellini)

5th Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 7

5th Overall Tour de Romandie

6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

2000

1st

Overall Tour de Suisse

2nd À travers Lausanne

2nd EnBW Grand Prix (with Robbie Hunter)

7th Züri-Metzgete

8th Road race, National Road Championships

2001

1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège

1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

3rd Luk-Cup Bühl

7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

9th EnBW Grand Prix (with Gilberto Simoni)

10th Overall Tour de Romandie

2002

1st

Overall Sachsen Tour International

1st Stage 2

2nd Milano–Torino

3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia

3rd Giro di Lombardia

6th Road race, National Road Championships

8th Züri-Metzgete

9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

2003

1st Stage 3 Sachsen Tour International

3rd Coppa Placci

3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato

4th Road race, National Road Championships

4th Tre Valli Varesine

4th Giro del Veneto

7th Züri-Metzgete

7th Trofeo Matteotti

9th Giro dell'Emilia

2004

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Trofeo Matteotti

9th Overall Tour de Suisse

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Giro d'Italia	—	—	4	11	—	27	—	—	—
Tour de France	36	12	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	16	48	22	DNF	DNF	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
^ "Camenzind quits after EPO disgrace". CNN. Athens. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
^ Westemeyer, Susan (17 August 2006). "Swiss court re-opens Camenzind EPO case". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.

External links

Oscar Camenzind at Cycling Archives (archived)

Awards
Preceded by Michael von Grünigen	Swiss Sportsman of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Marcel Schelbert

[SwissChamp-1] "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

[2] "Camenzind quits after EPO disgrace". CNN. Athens. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2019.

[3] Westemeyer, Susan (17 August 2006). "Swiss court re-opens Camenzind EPO case". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.

[1]

[2]

[3]

v t e UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race
1927–1938	1927: Alfredo Binda (ITA) 1928: Georges Ronsse (BEL) 1929: Georges Ronsse (BEL) 1930: Alfredo Binda (ITA) 1931: Learco Guerra (ITA) 1932: Alfredo Binda (ITA) 1933: Georges Speicher (FRA) 1934: Karel Kaers (BEL) 1935: Jean Aerts (BEL) 1936: Antonin Magne (FRA) 1937: Éloi Meulenberg (BEL) 1938: Marcel Kint (BEL)
1946–1959	1946: Hans Knecht (SUI) 1947: Theo Middelkamp (NED) 1948: Briek Schotte (BEL) 1949: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) 1950: Briek Schotte (BEL) 1951: Ferdinand Kübler (SUI) 1952: Heinz Müller (FRG) 1953: Fausto Coppi (ITA) 1954: Louison Bobet (FRA) 1955: Stan Ockers (BEL) 1956: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) 1957: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) 1958: Ercole Baldini (ITA) 1959: André Darrigade (FRA)
1960–1979	1960: Rik Van Looy (BEL) 1961: Rik Van Looy (BEL) 1962: Jean Stablinski (FRA) 1963: Benoni Beheyt (BEL) 1964: Jan Janssen (NED) 1965: Tom Simpson (GBR) 1966: Rudi Altig (FRG) 1967: Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1968: Vittorio Adorni (ITA) 1969: Harm Ottenbros (NED) 1970: Jean-Pierre Monseré (BEL) 1971: Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1972: Marino Basso (ITA) 1973: Felice Gimondi (ITA) 1974: Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1975: Hennie Kuiper (NED) 1976: Freddy Maertens (BEL) 1977: Francesco Moser (ITA) 1978: Gerrie Knetemann (NED) 1979: Jan Raas (NED)
1980–1999	1980: Bernard Hinault (FRA) 1981: Freddy Maertens (BEL) 1982: Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) 1983: Greg LeMond (USA) 1984: Claude Criquielion (BEL) 1985: Joop Zoetemelk (NED) 1986: Moreno Argentin (ITA) 1987: Stephen Roche (IRL) 1988: Maurizio Fondriest (ITA) 1989: Greg LeMond (USA) 1990: Rudy Dhaenens (BEL) 1991: Gianni Bugno (ITA) 1992: Gianni Bugno (ITA) 1993: Lance Armstrong (USA) 1994: Luc Leblanc (FRA) 1995: Abraham Olano (ESP) 1996: Johan Museeuw (BEL) 1997: Laurent Brochard (FRA) 1998: Oscar Camenzind (SUI) 1999: Óscar Freire (ESP)
2000–2019	2000: Romāns Vainšteins (LAT) 2001: Óscar Freire (ESP) 2002: Mario Cipollini (ITA) 2003: Igor Astarloa (ESP) 2004: Óscar Freire (ESP) 2005: Tom Boonen (BEL) 2006: Paolo Bettini (ITA) 2007: Paolo Bettini (ITA) 2008: Alessandro Ballan (ITA) 2009: Cadel Evans (AUS) 2010: Thor Hushovd (NOR) 2011: Mark Cavendish (GBR) 2012: Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 2013: Rui Costa (POR) 2014: Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) 2015: Peter Sagan (SVK) 2016: Peter Sagan (SVK) 2017: Peter Sagan (SVK) 2018: Alejandro Valverde (ESP) 2019: Mads Pedersen (DEN)
2020–2039	2020: Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) 2021: Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) 2022: Remco Evenepoel (BEL) 2023: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2024: Tadej Pogačar (SLO)

v t e 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) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021) Robin Froidevaux (2022) Marc Hirschi (2023) Mauro Schmid (2024)

Major Results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

See also

References

External links