Nino Schurter

Schurter in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1986-05-13) 13 May 1986 (age 37)[1] Tersnaus, Lumnezia, Switzerland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Scott–Sram MTB Racing Team
Discipline	Mountain bike racing
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Professional teams
2006–	Swisspower MTB Team
2014	Orica–GreenEDGE[3]
Major wins
Mountain bike Olympic Games XC (2016) World XC Championships (2009, 2012, 2013, 2015–2019, 2021, 2022) European XC Championships (2020) National XC Championships (2012–2017, 2019, 2020) Cape Epic (2017, 2019) UCI XC World Cup (2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017–2019, 2022, 2023)
Medal record Men's mountain bike racing Representing   Switzerland Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 1 1 World Championships 17 7 1 European Championships 1 4 1 World Cup 9 3 0 European Games 1 0 0 Total 27 15 2 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cross-country 2012 London Cross-country 2008 Beijing Cross-country World Championships 2006 Rotorua Cross-country team 2007 Fort William Cross-country team 2009 Canberra Cross-country 2012 Saalfelden Cross-country 2013 Pietermaritzburg Cross-country 2015 Vallnord Cross-country 2016 Nove Mesto Cross-country 2017 Cairns Cross-country 2017 Cairns Cross-country team 2018 Lenzerheide Cross-country 2018 Lenzerheide Team relay 2019 Mont-Sainte-Anne Cross-country 2019 Mont-Sainte-Anne Team relay 2021 Val di Sole Cross-country 2022 Les Gets Cross-country 2022 Les Gets Team relay 2023 Glasgow Team relay 2003 Lugano Cross-country team 2004 Les Gets Cross-country team 2008 Val di Sole Cross-country team 2011 Champery Cross-country 2011 Champery Cross-country team 2014 Hafjell Cross-country 2014 Hafjell Cross-country team 2023 Glasgow Cross-country European Games 2015 Baku Cross-country World Cup 2010 Overall Cross-country 2012 Overall Cross-country 2013 Overall Cross-country 2015 Overall Cross-country 2017 Overall Cross-country 2018 Overall Cross-country 2019 Overall Cross-country 2022 Overall Cross-country 2023 Overall Cross-country 2011 Overall Cross-country 2014 Overall Cross-country 2016 Overall Cross-country

Nino Schurter (born 13 May 1986) is a Swiss cross-country cyclist who races for the Scott–Sram MTB Racing Team.^[4]

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]

Career

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]}

Major results

UCI World Cup results