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Nino Schurter

Nino Schurter
Nino Schurter at the Worlds 2011.jpg
Personal information
Full name Nino Schurter
Born (1986-05-13) 13 May 1986 (age 30)
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing Team
Discipline Mountain bike racing, Road cycling, Orienteering
Role Rider
Rider type Cross-country
Professional team(s)
2007– Scott-Odlo MTB Team (now SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing Team)
2014 Orica–Scott

Nino Schurter (born 13 May 1986) is a Swiss cross-country cyclist who races for the SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing Team.

Schurter won the world championship in men's cross-country in 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016 and the overall UCI World Cup in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015. 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. He won the Swiss National Championship in cross-country mountain biking in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. He joined Orica–GreenEDGE for a number of road races during the 2014 season.

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 SCOTT-Odlo MTB team (formerly called SWISSPOWER).

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

2012 was one of Schurter's most successful season when he won 11 out of 15 races. He won his first World Cup of the season on 18 March in Pietermaritzburg on a bike with 650B or 27.5 inch wheels. On 13 May, he won his second World Cup on his 26th birthday in Nove Mesto na Morave. On 28 July, after his fourth individual win, Schurter won the overall World Cup series title in Val d'Isère.


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