Markus Zberg

Markus Zberg
Personal information
Full name	Markus Zberg
Born	June 27, 1974 (age 50); Switzerland
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Retired
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1996	Carrera Jeans–Tassoni
1997	Mercatone Uno
1998	Post Swiss Team
1999–2002	Rabobank
2003–2008	Gerolsteiner
2009	BMC Racing Team
Major wins
	Grand Tours Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (1998) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships; (2000, 2008) Rund um den Henninger Turm (2001) Milano–Torino (1999)
Medal record
Representing Switzerland
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

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]

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.^[3]