Gösta Pettersson

Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.

Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum brothers. They won the World Amateur Cycling Championships in 1967–1969 and a team silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics; three of the brothers were also part of the bronze-winning road team at the 1964 Games. In 1967 they were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

After the 1969 World Championships the Fåglum brothers turned professional. In 1970 Gösta won the Tour de Romandie, Coppa Sabatini and Trofeo Baracchi (with brother Tomas), and finished third at the Tour de France and sixth at the Giro d'Italia. Next year he won the Giro d'Italia, Giro dell'Appennino and Giro delle Marche. During the 1971 Giro he only managed to finish on the stage podium twice and did not win any stages, but was able to win the Maglia Rosa by finishing higher than the GC riders in the time trials and staying with or ahead of them in the mountains.

He finished sixth at the 1972 Giro d'Italia and seventh at the 1973 Tour de Suisse. During the Giro he defeated Merckx in a sprint finish on stage 7 to claim a stage win and come within only +0:10 of Merckx for the overall lead, the only competitor even close to Merckx in the standings. He stayed with the two time Giro champ for the next several stages but ended up losing time in the split time trial of stage 11 and fell back in the standings.

His last major success was second place at the 1974 Tour de Suisse.

Of the Grand Tours he preferred to ride the Giro, competing from 1970 to 1974 finishing in the top ten four times, never finishing worse than 13th. He rode the Tour De France in 1970 finishing on the podium behind Eddy Merckx and Joop Zoetemelk.

After finishing atop the podium in the Giro, ahead of Herman Van Springel and Italian rider Ugo Colombo, he started the 1971 TDF, but abandoned the race prior to reaching the Jaques Anquetil Velodrome.

Pettersson never raced in the Vuelta.

Major results

 * 1962
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 2nd Road race
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Tunisie
 * 1st Stage 4


 * 1963
 * 1st Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 1964
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 3rd Road race
 * 1st Overall Tour de Tunisie
 * 7th Road race, Summer Olympics


 * 1966
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Team time trial (with Sture Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)


 * 1967
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Team time trial (with Sture Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)
 * 1st Overall Tour du Maroc
 * 1st Scandinavian Race Uppsala
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Berlin


 * 1968
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Team time trial (with Sture Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)
 * 2nd Road race
 * 1st Overall Milk Race
 * 1st Stages 1a (ITT), 1b & 8b (ITT)
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Yugoslavia
 * Summer Olympics
 * 2nd Silver medal.svg Team time trial (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
 * 3rd Bronze medal.svg Road race


 * 1969
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Sture, Tomas & Erik Pettersson)
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Road race
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Time trial
 * 1st MaillotSuecia.PNG Team time trial (with Tomas Pettersson and Erik Pettersson)
 * 1st Overall Tour d'Algérie
 * 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
 * 1st Prologue


 * 1970
 * 1st Overall Tour de Romandie
 * 1st Stage 4b (ITT)
 * 1st Coppa Sabatini
 * 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
 * 1st Stage 1b (ITT) Cronostaffetta
 * 2nd GP Lugano
 * 2nd GP Forli
 * 3rd Overall Tour de France
 * 5th Giro di Romagna
 * 5th Overall Giro di Sardegna
 * 6th Overall Giro d'Italia
 * 9th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
 * 9th GP Alghero


 * 1971
 * 1st Overall Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Giro dell'Appennino
 * 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
 * 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
 * 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
 * 2nd GP Lugano
 * 2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna
 * 2nd Baden–Baden (with Tomas Pettersson)
 * 3rd Milan–San Remo
 * 3rd GP Forli
 * 7th Giro dell'Emilia
 * 7th Trofeo Laigueglia


 * 1972
 * 2nd Giro di Puglia
 * 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Tomas Pettersson)
 * 3rd GP Forli
 * 6th Overall Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stage 7
 * 6th Overall Tour de Romandie
 * 9th Milan–San Remo
 * 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 9th Giro dell'Emilia


 * 1973
 * 1st Stage 1b (ITT) Cronostaffetta
 * 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Davide Boifava)
 * 3rd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna
 * 7th Overall Tour de Suisse
 * 1st Stage 8b (ITT)
 * 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
 * 10th Giro dell'Emilia


 * 1974
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
 * 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Martín Emilio Rodríguez)
 * 4th Overall Volta a Catalunya
 * 4th GP Lugano
 * 6th Giro di Toscana
 * 8th Coppa Placci
 * 10th Overall Giro d'Italia
 * 10th Giro di Campania