Nino Schurter

Nick Name

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Born

:13 May,1986

Age

:33 years, 3 months

Location

:Tersnaus, Grisons, Switzerland

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About Nino Schurter

Nino Schurter is a Swiss cross-country cyclist who races for the Scott-Odlo-MTB racing team.

He won the 2009, 2012, and 2013 World Championships and is the 2010, 2012, and 2013 UCI World Cup winner.He is the 2012 Olympics silver medalist, the 2008 Olympics bronze medalist and the 2012 Swiss National Champion.He is to join with Orica-GreenEDGE for a limited number of road races during the 2014 season.

Career Success:

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.

2004

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

2012

Schurter 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.

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.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.

2015

He also competed in the 2015 European Games for Switzerland, in cycling, more specifically, mountain biking. He earned a gold medal.