Nino Schurter

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Nino Schurter
Personal information
Full name Nino Schurter
Born (1986-05-13) 13 May 1986[1]
Tersnaus, GR
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team Scott Swisspower
Discipline Mountain bike racing , Orienteering
Role Rider
Rider type Cross-country
Medal record
Competitor for   Switzerland
Mountain bike racing
Olympic Games
Silver 2012 London Men's cross-country
Bronze 2008 Beijing Men's cross-country
World Championships
Gold 2009 Canberra Cross-country
Gold 2012 Saalfelden Cross-country
Gold 2013 Pietermaritzburg Cross-country
Silver 2011 Champery Cross-country
Silver 2011 Champery Cross-country team
World Cup
Gold 2010 Overall Cross-country
Gold 2012 Overall Cross-country
Silver 2011 Overall Cross-country
Gold 2013 Overall Cross-country
Infobox last updated on
10 September 2012

Nino Schurter (born 13 May 1986 in Tersnaus, Graubünden) is a Swiss cross-country cyclist who races for the Scott Swisspower racing team.[3]

He won the 2009, 2012, and 2013 World Championships and is the 2010 and 2012 UCI World Cup winner.[4][5] He is the 2012 Olympics silver medalist, the 2008 Olympics bronze medalist and the 2012 Swiss National Champion.[6][7][8]

Career

Nino Schurter grew up in Tersnaus, Val 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.[9]

2004

In his first junior international competition on 31 July in Walbrzych, Poland, Nino Schurter finished first at the European Championships.[10]

2012

Schurter won his first World Cup of the season on 18 March in Pietermaritzburg[11] on a bike with 650B or 27.5 inch wheels.[12] On 13 May, he won his second World Cup on his 26th birthday in Nove Mesto na Morave.[13] On 28 July, after his fourth individual win, Schurter won the overall World Cup series title in Val d'Isère.[5]

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.[14][15][16][17] 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.

References

  1. ↑ Nino Schurter's biography, BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, Scott Swisspower. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  3. ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, Cycling News. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  4. ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, London 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jones, Rob (28 July 2012). "Schurter wins last World Cup of the season". Cycling News. Retrieved 12 August 2012. 
  6. ↑ Pretot, Julien (Reuters) (12 August 2012). "Cycling: Kulhavy sprints to mountain bike gold". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 12 August 2012. 
  7. ↑ Swiss info (23 August 2008). "Fourth Olympic bronze for Switzerland". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 12 August 2012. 
  8. ↑ 2012 Swiss National Championships - Men Elite results, MTB Cross Country´. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  9. ↑ Biography, Nino Schurter's official site. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  10. ↑ 2004 European Championships - Juniors results, Cycling News. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Cycling News (18 March 2012). "Schurter delighted after Pietermaritzburg win". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2012. 
  12. ↑ James Huang (March 19, 2012). "Nino Schurter wins World Cup #1 on 650b wheels". Cycling News. Retrieved 2013-05-12. 
  13. ↑ Cycling News (14 May 2012). "Schurter takes care of unfinished business in Czech". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2012. 
  14. ↑ Cycling News (15 September 2011). "Schurter selected to Swiss 2012 Olympic team". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2012. 
  15. ↑ Addley, Esther (12 August 2012). "London 2012: Jaroslav Kulhavy wins mountain bike gold as Briton injured". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2012. 
  16. ↑ Petrequin, Samuel (AP) (12 August 2012). "Khulavy Wins Olympic Mountain Bike Gold". ABC News. Retrieved 17 August 2012. 
  17. ↑ 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. 

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