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Full name | Fritz Schär | ||||||||||||||
Born | Kaltenbach, Switzerland | 13 March 1926||||||||||||||
Died | 29 September 1997 Frauenfeld, Switzerland | (aged 71)||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Fritz Schär (13 March 1926 in Kaltenbach – 29 September 1997 in Frauenfeld) was a Swiss cyclist who in 1953 won the first points classification ever in the Tour de France. He also finished third in the general classification in the 1954 Tour de France. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1953. [1]