Oscar Plattner Explained

Oscar Plattner
Fullname:	Oscar Ernest Plattner
Nickname:	Le Machiavel du Sprint
Birth Date:	17 February 1922
Birth Place:	Tschappina, Switzerland
Death Place:	Zürich, Switzerland
Discipline:	Track, Road
Role:	Rider
Ridertype:	Sprinter
Proyears1:	1947–1949
Proteam1:	Tebag
Proyears2:	1951–1952
Proteam2:	Condor
Proyears3:	1953–1958
Proteam3:	Raleigh
Proyears4:	1959
Proteam4:	Condor
Proyears5:	1962
Proteam5:	Condor

Oscar Plattner (17 February 1922 – 21 August 2002) 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.