Nino Schurter

Nino Schurter
Personal information
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)
Team information
Current team Scott-Odlo-MTB Racing
Discipline Mountain bike racing , Orienteering
Role Rider
Rider type Cross-country
Professional team(s)
2006– Swisspower MTB Team
→ 2014 Orica-GreenEDGE[3]
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-Odlo-MTB racing team.[4]

He won the 2009, 2012, and 2013 World Championships and is the 2010 and 2012 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 with Orica-GreenEDGE for a limited number of road races during the 2014 season.[10]

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.[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.

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

References

  1. ↑ Nino Schurter's biography, BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, Scott Swisspower. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "Schurter to race Tours de Suisse and Romandie with Orica GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, Cycling News. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Nino Schurter's profile, London 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jones, Rob (28 July 2012). "Schurter wins last World Cup of the season". Cycling News. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  7. ↑ Pretot, Julien (Reuters) (12 August 2012). "Cycling: Kulhavy sprints to mountain bike gold". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Swiss info (23 August 2008). "Fourth Olympic bronze for Switzerland". swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  9. ↑ 2012 Swiss National Championships - Men Elite results, MTB Cross Country´. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Schurter to race Tours de Suisse and Romandie with Orica GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  11. ↑ Biography, Nino Schurter's official site. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  12. ↑ 2004 European Championships - Juniors results, Cycling News. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  13. ↑ Cycling News (18 March 2012). "Schurter delighted after Pietermaritzburg win". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  14. ↑ James Huang (March 19, 2012). "Nino Schurter wins World Cup #1 on 650b wheels". Cycling News. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  15. ↑ Cycling News (14 May 2012). "Schurter takes care of unfinished business in Czech". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  16. ↑ Cycling News (15 September 2011). "Schurter selected to Swiss 2012 Olympic team". Cycling News. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  17. ↑ Addley, Esther (12 August 2012). "London 2012: Jaroslav Kulhavy wins mountain bike gold as Briton injured". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  18. ↑ Petrequin, Samuel (AP) (12 August 2012). "Khulavy Wins Olympic Mountain Bike Gold". ABC News. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  19. ↑ 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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