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| Full name | Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1940-11-23)23 November 1940 (age 85) Alingsås Municipality, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1970–1972 | Ferretti | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973 | Scic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1974 | Magniflex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[1]
Pettersson's brothers,Erik,Sture andTomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as theFåglum 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 theSvenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.[2]
After the 1969 World Championships the Fåglum brothers turned professional. In 1970 Gösta won theTour de Romandie,Coppa Sabatini andTrofeo Baracchi (with brother Tomas), and finished third at theTour de France and sixth at theGiro d'Italia. Next year he won theGiro 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 theMaglia 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 the1972 Giro d'Italia and seventh at the 1973Tour 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 1974Tour de Suisse.[2][3]
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 behindEddy Merckx andJoop Zoetemelk.
After finishing atop the podium in the Giro, ahead ofHerman Van Springel and Italian riderUgo Colombo, he started the 1971 TDF, but abandoned the race prior to reaching theJaques Anquetil Velodrome.
Pettersson never raced in the Vuelta.
Time trialTime trialTime trial Team time trial (withSture Pettersson andErik Pettersson)
Team time trial,UCI Road World Championships (withSture,Tomas &Erik Pettersson)Time trial Team time trial (withSture Pettersson andErik Pettersson)Team time trial,UCI Road World Championships (withSture,Tomas &Erik Pettersson) Team time trial (withSture Pettersson andErik Pettersson)
Team time trial (withSture,Tomas &Erik Pettersson)
Road raceTeam time trial,UCI Road World Championships (withSture,Tomas &Erik Pettersson)Road raceTime trial Team time trial (withTomas Pettersson andErik Pettersson)
OverallTour de Romandie
OverallGiro d'Italia| Grand Tour | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 |
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| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro d'Italia | 6 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 10 |
| Tour de France | 3 | DNF | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
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| Preceded by | Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 1967 With:Erik Pettersson,Sture Pettersson andTomas Pettersson | Succeeded by |
