Rolf Graf

Rolf Graf (19 August 1932 - 18 January 2019) was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Rolf Graf was a protégé of the Swiss cyclist Ferdinand Kübler.

He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1956. In 1963, Graf had car crash in Italy, from which he never really recovered, and in 1964 he had to stop his cycling career.

Major results

 * 1954
 * Gent–Wevelgem


 * 1955
 * Locarno


 * 1956
 * national road race championship
 * Tour de Suisse
 * Trofeo Baracchi (with André Darrigade)


 * 1957
 * Basel


 * 1958
 * GP du Locle


 * 1959
 * national road race championship
 * Giro d'Italia:
 * Winner stage 22
 * Tour de France:
 * Winner stages 12 and 19


 * 1960
 * Nice
 * Tour de France:
 * Winner stage 19
 * Trofeo Longines (with Guido Carlesi, Silvano Ciampi, Emile Daems and Alfredo Sabbadin)


 * 1962
 * national road race championship
 * Berner Rundfahrt