# Pascal Richard

Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993.

## Biography

Richard was born in Vevey. At the start of his career, he was a successful cyclo-cross cyclist, becoming world champion in this discipline in 1988. Later on, he switched to road-cycling, and showed a considerable talent for climbing. He won the classics Giro di Lombardia in 1993 and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1996. In 1996 he also gained Olympic gold after winning a sprint in a successful three-man breakaway in the men's road race.
He won the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia and Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France; he captured the overall titles in the 1994 Tour de Suisse and the 1993 and 1994 Tour de Romandie.

## Major results
### 1985

    1st Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
       1st Stage 7b

### 1986

    1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
    1st Stage 5b Vuelta a Asturias

### 1987

    3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
       1st Stage 1

### 1988

    1st UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships

### 1989

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
    1st Stage 16 Tour de France
    6th Grand Prix des Amériques

### 1990

    1st Tre Valli Varesine
    2nd Giro di Lombardia
    2nd Giro del Veneto
    9th Clásica de San Sebastián

### 1991

    1st Trofeo Laigueglia
    1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
    Tour de Romandie
       1st Prologue & Stage 6
    2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
    2nd Tre Valli Varesine
    4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen La Méditerranéenne
    4th Coppa Bernocchi

### 1993

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Stage 3
    1st Giro di Lombardia
    1st Giro del Lazio
    1st Giro della Romagna
    1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse
    2nd Giro dell'Emilia
    4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
    4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
       1st Stage 4
    4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    5th Overall Critérium International
       1st Stage 1
    8th Giro del Veneto

### 1994

    1st Overall Tour de Suisse
       1st Stage 3
    1st Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Stages 3 & 5 (ITT)
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 21
    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    1st Tour du Lac Léman
    2nd Giro di Toscana
    2nd Tour de Berne
    3rd Giro di Lombardia
    4th Trofeo Pantalica
    5th Milano–Torino
    7th Overall Paris–Nice
       1st Stage 5
    7th Züri-Metzgete

### 1995

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 13 & 19
    1st Giro del Lazio
    1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    1st Trofeo Melinda
    1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice
    5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
    8th Giro di Lombardia

### 1996

    1st Road race, Olympic Games
    1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    1st Stage 12 Tour de France
    1st Stage 14 Giro d'Italia
    2nd Klasika Primavera
    6th Tour de Berne

### 1998

    3rd Overall À travers Lausanne
    5th Giro di Lombardia
    8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    10th Giro del Trentino
       1st Stage 4

### 1999

    1st Criterium d'Abruzzo
    1st Stage 1 Tour de Suisse
    5th Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca
    6th Tour de Berne
    7th Coppa Sabatini

### 2000

    4th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | 56 | — | 15 | 13 | DNF | — | DNF | 55 | DNF |
| Tour de France | DNF | 23 | DNF | 49 | DNF | — | — | — | 47 | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | 34 | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |