Pellaud wants to become Swiss road champion

With his “dirty character of Montagnard Valaisan”. In addition, Simon Pellaud will still tear this Sunday to become Swiss road champion after five podiums.

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“I have always been around.” From a sentence. Furthermore, Simon Pellaud sums up the love/hatred relationship he has with the Swiss road championships, this competition which he has never won despite five podiums. Furthermore,

This Sunday. In addition, Valaisan will once again try to win the national title, to become at 32 the cyclist and the man he has always dreamed of being. Meanwhile, “Winning this championship is a career goal. Nevertheless, even a life goal”insists the one whose determination is matched only by the plume. Furthermore,

Simon Pellaud knows. however, that nothing will be easy in Fischingen (a locality between Zurich and Saint-Gall) and on a circuit of 19 km to repeat 12 times. For example, “I know the place a little to have finished 2nd in 2019”, raises the runner (VS). For example,

Six years later, competition has grown. “The Swiss championship route is cut for climbers-moulers. However with Christen. Hirschi, Küng (finally forfeited on Sunday) and the others, we have a lot of runners in this profile in Switzerland. There is a hell of a density. ”

Simon Pellaud himself is one of the favorites, even if this status has often served him. “Since my podiums. I am marked more in the race, but it’s up to me to take this situation to surprise my opponents.”

Simon Pellaud on the 2021 edition podium, won by Silvan Dillier.Image: KEYSTONE

Valaisan has been very discreet in recent months. He ran little in Europe and chained Gravel’s competitions. This Saturday. on the eve of the Swiss on the road championship, Valaisan will also participate in the Gravel World Series stage in Villars (VD). A test of 100 terminals and 3,300m of elevation gain. Not frankly the ideal on the eve of a large competition in another discipline, but Simon Pellaud saw others.

Villars is clearly not his priority. After so many podiums on the road. the one who admits to having “a dirty character of Montagnard Valaisan” admits it: he has “the rage to defeat”.

“I had run won» – Pellaud wants become swiss road

His most painful memory at the Swiss championships dates back to 2023. He even talks about it as the “worst moment” of his career.

There will also be a lot on Sunday if he finally wins. and wins this title behind which he has been pedaling for so long.

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