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| name = Gösta Pettersson | ||
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| Full name | Gösta Pettersson | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1940-10-23) October 23, 1940 (age 84) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Overall rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Gösta Pettersson (born November 23, 1940 in Alingsås Municipality) is a Swedish former professional road racing cyclist and three-time Olympic medalist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1971 Giro d'Italia. He was also third in the 1970 Tour de France which was in his first year as a professional, at age 30.
In 1967, The Fåglum brothers (Erik Pettersson, Gösta Pettersson, Sture Pettersson and Tomas Pettersson) were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. The brothers won the World Amateur Cycling Championships between 1967-1969 along with a silver medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Results and Teams
- 1964 (amateur)
- 3rd (Bronze) – 1964 Summer Olympics – 100 km Team Time Trial
- 3rd (Bronze) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 185 km Men's Road Race
- 1967 (amateur)
- 1st (Gold) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 100 km Team Time Trial
- 1968 (amateur)
- 1st (Gold) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 100 km Team Time Trial
- 2nd (Silver) – 1968 Summer Olympics – 100 km Team Time Trial
- 3rd (Bronze) – 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's Road Race
- 1st overall – Tour of Britain
- 1969 (amateur)
- 1st (Gold) – World Amateur Cycling Championships – 100 km Team Time Trial
- 1970 – Ferretti
- 1st Overall – Tour de Romandie
- 1st – Coppa Sabatini
- 3rd Overall – Tour de France
- 1st – Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
- 1971 – Ferretti
1st Overall – Giro d'Italia- 1st Overall – Giro dell'Appennino
- 1st Overall – Giro delle Marche
- 1973 – Scic
- 7th Overall – Tour de Suisse
- Winner stage 8b
- 1974 – Magniflex
- 2nd Overall – Tour de Suisse
External links
- Gösta Pettersson at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Official Tour de France results for Gösta Pettersson
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| Preceded byKurt Johansson | Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal with Erik Petterson, Sture Petterson and Tomas Petterson 1967 |
Succeeded byToini Gustafsson-Rönnlund |
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- 1940 births
- Living people
- People from Alingsås Municipality
- Swedish cyclists
- Giro d'Italia winners
- Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Sweden
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Swedish cycling biography stubs