Nino Schurter
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| Full name | Nino Schurter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
13 May 1986[1] Tersnaus, GR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Scott-Odlo-MTB Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike racing , Orienteering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006– | Swisspower MTB Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| → 2014 | Orica–GreenEDGE[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nino Schurter (born 13 May 1986 in Tersnaus, Graubünden) is a Swiss cross-country cyclist who races for the Scott-Odlo-MTB racing team.[4]
He won the 2009, 2012, and 2013 World Championships and is the 2010, 2012, and 2013 UCI World Cup winner.[5][6] He is the 2012 Olympics silver medalist, the 2008 Olympics bronze medalist and the 2012 Swiss National Champion.[7][8][9] He is to join Orica–GreenEDGE for a limited number of road races during the 2014 season.[10]
Career
Nino Schurter grew up in Tersnaus, Lumnezia in the Romansch-speaking part of Switzerland. He spent a lot of his free time in nature playing different sports and quickly got fascinated by mountain biking. He took part in the Swiss racing competition Swisspower cup where he won his first victories. In 2003, he became a member of the professional team of Thomas Frischknecht and he turned professional in 2007 when he joined the Swisspower MTB team.[11]
2004
In his first junior international competition on 31 July in Walbrzych, Poland, Nino Schurter finished first at the European Championships.[12]
2012
Schurter won his first World Cup of the season on 18 March in Pietermaritzburg[13] on a bike with 650B or 27.5 inch wheels.[14] On 13 May, he won his second World Cup on his 26th birthday in Nove Mesto na Morave.[15] On 28 July, after his fourth individual win, Schurter won the overall World Cup series title in Val d'Isère.[6]
On 15 September 2011, Schurter qualified for the 2012 Olympics where he won the silver medal after being beaten in a final sprint on the line by Jaroslav Kulhavy.[16][17][18][19] On 8 September 2012, he won his second World Championships title in Saalbach, Austria, where he shared the podium with two of his countrymen Lukas and Matthias Fluckiger.
2015
He also competed in the 2015 European Games for Switzerland, in cycling, more specifically, mountain biking. He earned a gold medal.
Palmares
- 2004
- 1st
European Junior Mountainbike Championship (XC) - 2005
- 1st
National U23 Mountainbike Championship (XC) - 2006
- 1st European U23 Mountainbike Championship
- 2007
- 1st European U23 Mountain bike Championship (XC)
- 2nd World U23 Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 2nd National U23 Cyclo-cross Championship
- 3rd Champery Mountainbike
- 2008
- 1st
World U23 Mountainbike Championship (XC) - 1st European U23 Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 2nd Winterthur Mountainbike (Swisspower Cup)
- 2nd Houffalize Mountainbike
- 2nd Fort William Mountainbike
- 3rd Olympic Games Mountainbike Championship
- 3rd Buchs Mountainbike (Swisspower Cup)
- 2009
- 1st World Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 2010
- 1st Dalby Forest Mountainbike
- 2nd Offenbur, Mountainbike
- 2011
- 2nd Nové Město na Moravě Mountainbike
- 2nd Val di Sole Mountainbike
- 2012
- 1st World Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 1st National Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 1st Pietermaritsburg Mountainbike
- 1st Buchs Mountainbike (Swiss Cup)
- 1st Solothurn Mountainbike
- 1st Nové Město na Moravě Mountainbike
- 1st Gränichen Mountainbike
- 1st Mont Sainte-Anne Mountainbike
- 1st Val-d'Isere Mountainbike
- 1st Basel Mountainbike
- 2nd Olympic Games Mountainbike Championship
- 2nd Houffalize Mountainbike
- 2013
- 1st World Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 1st National Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 1st Schaan Mountainbike
- 1st Lugano Mountainbike
- 1st Heubach Mountainbike
- 1st Solothurn Mountainbike
- 1st Nové Město na Moravě Mountainbike
- 1st Val di Sole Mountainbike
- 1st Andorra Mountainbike
- 2nd Basel Mountainbike
- 2nd Hafjell Mountainbike
- 3rd Mont Sainte-Anne, Mountainbike
- 2014
- 1st National Mountainbike Championship (XC)
- 1st Rivera-Bironico Mountainbike
- 1st Solothurn Mountainbike
- 1st Nové Město na Moravě Mountainbike
- 1st in Lenzerheide Mountainbike
- 1st in Mont Sainte-Anne Mountainbike
- 1st Windham Mountainbike
- 1st Meribel Mountainbike
- 2015
- 1st World Mountainbike Championship (XC)
References
- ↑ Nino Schurter's biography, BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, Scott Swisspower. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ "Schurter to race Tours de Suisse and Romandie with Orica GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, Cycling News. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, London 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- 1 2 Jones, Rob (28 July 2012). "Schurter wins last World Cup of the season". Cycling News. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ Pretot, Julien (Reuters) (12 August 2012). "Cycling: Kulhavy sprints to mountain bike gold". Yahoo Sports]. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ Swiss info (23 August 2008). "Fourth Olympic bronze for Switzerland". swissinfo.ch]. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ 2012 Swiss National Championships - Men Elite results, MTB Cross Country´. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ↑ "Schurter to race Tours de Suisse and Romandie with Orica GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- ↑ Biography, Nino Schurter's official site. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ 2004 European Championships - Juniors results, Cycling News. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ↑ Cycling News (18 March 2012). "Schurter delighted after Pietermaritzburg win". Cycling News]. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ James Huang (19 March 2012). "Nino Schurter wins World Cup #1 on 650b wheels". Cycling News. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
- ↑ Cycling News (14 May 2012). "Schurter takes care of unfinished business in Czech". Cycling News]. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ Cycling News (15 September 2011). "Schurter selected to Swiss 2012 Olympic team". [Cycling News]. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ Addley, Esther (12 August 2012). "London 2012: Jaroslav Kulhavy wins mountain bike gold as Briton injured". The Guardian]. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ Petrequin, Samuel (AP) (12 August 2012). "Khulavy Wins Olympic Mountain Bike Gold". ABC News]. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ PA (12 August 2012). "Team GB's Liam Killeen crashes out on steep section of boulders in cross-country event". The Independent]. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
External links
- Nino Schurter's official website
- Nino Schurter profile at Cycling Archives
- Bio on results.beijing2008.cn at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 September 2008)