Oscar Plattner

Personal information
Full name	Oscar Ernest Plattner
Nickname	Le Machiavel du Sprint
Born	(1922-02-17)17 February 1922 Tschappina, Switzerland
Died	21 August 2002(2002-08-21) (aged 80) Zurich, Switzerland
Team information
Discipline	Track, Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1947–1949	Tebag
1951–1952	Condor
1953–1958	Raleigh
1959	Condor
1962	Condor
Medal record Men's track cycling Representing  France World Championships 1946 Zurich Amateur Sprint 1952 Paris Sprint 1955 Milan Sprint 1956 Copenhagen Sprint 1960 Leipzig Sprint 1962 Milan Sprint

Oscar Plattner (17 February 1922, in Tschappina – 21 August 2002, in Zurich) was a Swiss cyclist.^[1]

National and International Wins

Every year between and including 1944 and 1946, Plattner won the Swiss National Amateur Sprint Championships. In 1946, he additionally won the World Amateur Sprint Championships. From 1947 until 1964, Plattner competed in the Swiss National Sprint Championships and won every year he participated. Another notable achievement is his title at the World Sprint Championships in 1952.

Plattner won the Tour de Berne in 1950 and the Grand Prix du Paris in 1953. He won the Six Days of Copenhagen in 1951, with Kay Werner Nielsen; the Six Days of Hannover in 1953, with Hans Preiskeit; the Six Days of Antwerp in 1953, with Achiel Bruneel, and in 1962, with Peter Post and Rik Van Looy; the Six Days of Paris in 1956, with Walter Bucher and Jean Roth; the Six Days of Aarhus in 1956, with Fritz Pfenniger; and the Six Days of Madrid and the Six Days of New York in 1961, both with Armin von Büren. Plattner also won the national Madison championships in 1958 and 1959 with Walter Bucher.

Major results

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