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Nino Schurter (born 13 May 1986) is a Swiss cross-country cyclist who races for the Scott–Sram MTB Racing Team.[4]
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| Born | 13 May 1986[1] Tersnaus, Lumnezia, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Scott–Sram MTB Racing Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006– | Swisspower MTB Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schurter won the world championship in men's cross-country in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 and the overall UCI World Cup in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 and thus become the first man to hold 9 World Cup overall titles.[5][6] He won the gold medal in mountain biking at the 2016 Olympics, the silver medal 2012 Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics.[7][8] He won the Swiss National Championship in cross-country mountain biking in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.[9][10][11][12] He joined Orica–GreenEDGE for a number of road races during the 2014 season.[3]
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Nino Schurter was born and 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 SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing Team (former SCOTT-Odlo MTB Racing and even earlier SWISSPOWER).[13][14]
He currently rides a Scott Spark RC World cup EVO.
2004
In his first junior international competition on 31 July in Wałbrzych, Poland, Nino Schurter finished first at the European Championships.[15]
2012
2012 was one of Schurter's most successful season when he won 11 out of 15 races.[16] He won his first World Cup of the season on 18 March in Pietermaritzburg[17] on a bike with 650B or 27.5-inch wheels.[18] On 13 May, he won his second World Cup on his 26th birthday in Nove Mesto na Morave.[19] 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 Kulhavý.[20][21][22][23] 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 Flückiger.[24]
2013
On 2 September 2013, Schurter won his third World Championship title in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on one of his favourite cross-country courses.[16]
2014
Schurter joined the Australian road race cycling team Orica–GreenEDGE during the 2014 season.[25] He took part in the Tour de Romandie[26] and the Tour de Suisse.[27]
In the 2014, mountain bike season, he lost his World Cup and World Championships titles. He finished in second place in Hafjell, Norway[28] and ended up his season behind Julien Absalon at the World Cup in Méribel.
2015
In 2015, Schurter fully committed to his mountain bike career as he had the 2016 Olympics in Rio on his agenda for the next two years.[29] He competed in the 2015 European Games for Switzerland, in mountain biking. He won the gold medal in the event.[30]
2016
Schurter won his fifth world championship in men's cross-country at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships at Nové Město, Czech Republic. This equaled the record of Julien Absalon, who has also won five titles in the event.[31] At the 2016 Summer Olympic, he won the gold medal, finishing before Jaroslav Kulhavý and Carlos Coloma Nicolás.
2017 Perfect season
In March 2017, Schurter won the Absa Cape Epic – the eight-day South African stage race – for the first time. Riding with Scott-Sram teammate Matthias Stirnemann in the two-man team format they won by eight minutes from pre-race favorites Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavý (Investec Songo Specialized). Schurter had completed the Cape Epic three times previously. This was his first win. He went on to win all six rounds of the World Cup and accomplished as first male[32] a Perfect season, as well as his sixth world championship.[citation needed]
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- 2004
- UCI World Junior Championships
- 1st
Cross-country - 2nd
Team relay
- 1st
- 1st
Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships - 2005
- 1st
Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships - 3rd
Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships - 2006
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Team relay
- 1st Under-23 Cross-country
- 1st
- 1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2007
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Team relay
- 2nd Under-23 Cross-country
- 1st
- 1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 3rd Champery
- 8th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
- 2008
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Under-23 Cross-country
- 2nd Team relay
- 1st
- 1st Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Houffalize
- 2nd Fort William
- Swisspower Cup
- 2nd Winterthur
- 3rd Buchs
- 3rd
Cross-country, Olympic Games - 2009
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 5th Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 4th Schladming
- 5th Madrid
- 2010
- 1st
Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Dalby Forest
- 1st Val di Sole
- 2nd Offenburg
- 2nd Windham
- 3rd Champéry
- 4th Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 2011
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd Cross-country
- 2nd Team relay
- 2nd
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Pietermaritzburg
- 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 2nd Windham
- 2nd Nové Město
- 2nd Val d'Isère
- 2012
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Pietermaritzburg
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 1st Val d'Isère
- 2nd Houffalize
- 2nd
Cross-country, Olympic Games - 2013
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Val di Sole
- 1st Vallnord
- 2nd Hafjell
- 3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 2nd
Cross-country, UEC European Championships - 2014
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd Cross-country
- 2nd Team relay
- 2nd
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 1st Windham
- 1st Méribel
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2015
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 1st
Cross-country, European Games - 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 1st Windham
- 1st Val di Sole
- 2nd Nové Město
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- 2016
- 1st
Cross-country, Olympic Games - 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Cairns
- 1st Albstadt
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 4th La Bresse
- 2017
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Team relay
- 1st
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st
Overall Cape Epic (with Matthias Stirnemann) - 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Albstadt
- 1st Vallnord
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 1st Val di Sole
- 2018
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Team relay
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Outcast Rider, Cape Epic - 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Albstadt
- 1st Val di Sole
- 1st La Bresse
- 2nd Stellenbosch
- 2nd Vallnord
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 2nd Val di Sole
- 3rd Nové Město
- 2019
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Team relay
- 1st
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st Overall Cape Epic (with Lars Forster)
- 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Vallnord
- 1st Les Gets
- 2nd Nové Město
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- 2nd Snowshoe
- 3rd Val di Sole
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 2nd Vallnord
- 3rd Albstadt
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Tokyo 2020 Test Event
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 3rd Monte Titano
- 2020
- 1st
Cross-country, UEC European Championships - 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st
Overall Swiss Epic (with Lars Forster) - Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Leukerbad
- 4th Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 3rd Nové Město II
- 4th Nové Město I
- 2021
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Albstadt
- 4th Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- 4th Snowshoe
- 5th Les Gets
- 4th Cross-country, Olympic Games
- 2022
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Team relay
- 1st
- 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Petrópolis
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2nd Leogang
- 2nd Val di Sole
- 3rd Nové Město
- 3rd Vallnord
- 4th Lenzerheide
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Albstadt
- 2023
- UCI World Championships
- 1st Team relay
- 3rd Cross-country
- 1st
- 1st Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Lenzerheide
- 1st Val di Sole
- 2nd Les Gets
- 2nd Snowshoe
- 3rd Nové Město
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- Internazionali d'Italia Series
- 1st Capoliveri
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 2nd Vallnord
- 2024
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Val di Sole
- 2nd Nové Město
- 4th Crans-Montana
- 2nd Overall Cape Epic (with Sebastian Fini Carstensen)
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- 2nd Engelberg
- 3rd Cross-country, National Championships
UCI World Cup results
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | SPA 28 |
MAD 35 |
HOU 45 |
WIL 22 |
MON — |
SAN — |
ANG — |
FOR DNF |
43rd | 174 | |
| 2006 | CUR 14 |
MAD 14 |
SPA — |
FOR 9 |
MON 18 |
SCH 23 |
9th | 481 | |||
| 2007 | HOU 6 |
OFF DNF |
CHA 3 |
MON 5 |
FEL 6 |
MAR DNF |
8th | 560 | |||
| 2008 | HOU 2 |
OFF 4 |
MAD DNF |
AND 15 |
FOR 2 |
MON — |
BRO — |
CAN 8 |
SCH 17 |
8th | 808 |
| 2009 | PIE 6 |
OFF 10 |
HOU — |
MAD 5 |
MON 13 |
BRO 6 |
CHA 26 |
SCH 4 |
5th | 779 | |
| 2010 | DAL 1 |
HOU 15 |
OFF 2 |
CHA 3 |
ISE 1 |
WIN 2 |
1st | 1136 | |||
| 2011 | PIE 1 |
DAL 9 |
OFF 7 |
MON 2 |
WIN 2 |
NOV 2 |
ISE 2 |
2nd | 1270 | ||
| 2012 | PIE 1 |
HOU 2 |
NOV 1 |
LAB — |
MON 1 |
WIN — |
ISE 1 |
1st | 1200 | ||
| 2013 | ALB 18 |
NOV 1 |
VAL 1 |
AND 1 |
MON 3 |
HAF 2 |
1st | 1180 | |||
| 2014 | PIE 6 |
CAI — |
NOV 1 |
ALB 2 |
MON 1 |
WIN 1 |
MER 1 |
2nd | 1330 | ||
| 2015 | NOV 2 |
ALB 2 |
LEN 2 |
MON 1 |
WIN 1 |
VAL 1 |
1st | 850 | |||
| 2016 | CAI 1 |
ALB 1 |
LAB 4 |
LEN 1 |
MON — |
AND 13 |
2nd | 2190 | |||
| 2017 | NOV 1 |
ALB 1 |
AND 1 |
LEN 1 |
MON 1 |
VAL 1 |
1st | 1500 | |||
| 2018 | STE 2 |
ALB 1 |
NOV 1 |
VAL 1 |
AND 2 |
MON 7 |
LAB 1 |
1st | 1861 | ||
| 2019 | ALB 6 |
NOV 2 |
AND 1 |
LES 1 |
VAL 3 |
LEN 2 |
SNO 2 |
1st | 1995 | ||
| 2020 | LEN NH |
VAL NH |
LES NH |
NOV 4 |
NOV 3 |
4th | 310 | ||||
| 2021 | ALB 2 |
NOV 7 |
LEO 10 |
LES 5 |
LEN 2 |
SNO 4 |
4th | 1182 | |||
| 2022 | PET 1 |
ALB 2 |
NOV 3 |
LEO 2 |
LEN 4 |
AND 3 |
SNO DNF |
MON 6 |
VAL 2 |
1st | 1723 |
| 2023 | NOV 3 |
LEN 1 |
LEO 21 |
VAL 1 |
AND 12 |
LES 2 |
SNO 2 |
MON 14 |
1st | 1549 | |
| 2024 | MAI 35 |
ARA 6 |
NOV 2 |
VAL 1 |
CRA 4 |
LES | LAK | MON | |||
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