Georges Antenen

In 1923 Swiss cyclist Georges Antenen finished third in the men’s amateur road race at the UCI World Championships in front of a home crowd in Zürich. This earned Antenen a place on the Olympic team for the 1924 Paris Games, where he came 21st in the road race and fourth in the combined team event. Two years later he became the Swiss amateur road race champion before turning professional.

Antenen then had an impressive list of wins in road races with victories at the Tour de Haute-Savoie (1928), the Tour de Berne (1928, 1930), and the Tour du Lac Léman (1928, 1932). As a professional he also won two national road race titles, the first in 1930, followed by his second title in 1933. In addition to one-day races, Antenen rode in several high-profile stage races including the Tour of Germany (1931), the Tour de France (1931–33), and the Tour de Suisse (1933–35). Although never a general classification contender, he did manage to have several top ten stage finishes at the Tour de France and the Tour de Suisse.