Nino Schurter

Nino Schurter ( born May 13, 1986 in Tersnaus ) is a Swiss mountain bikers.

Nino Schurter took in all junior categories, the Swiss champion in mountain biking: 2002 at the Cadets, at the 2004 Junior, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 at the espoir ( U23 ). At the World Championships he won a silver medal in 2003, the 2004 title in the juniors. The Swiss Sports Aid Foundation drew Schurter out as a junior athlete of the year 2004. A year later he was - after he had been tied back in the lead by a defect - at the Mountain Bike World Championships 2005 in Livigno in the U23 category of third parties.

After another victory at the Swiss Championships and the European Championship title and the overall World Cup in the U23 category is Schurter took the 2006 World Champion title espoir. In 2007, he took again the Swiss Champion and the European Champion title. At the 2007 World Championships in Fort William, he could not defend the title, and was behind the Dane Jakob Fuglsang second. With the new winning the European Championship title in 2008 in St. Wendel, he won this title in the U23 category three times in a row.

In June 2008, after five World Cup races, he was twice on the second place ( Houffalize and Fort William).

In June 2008, he won for the second time after 2006, the world champion title in the U23 category.

At the Summer Games in Beijing Nino Schurter won his first Olympic medal with bronze.

His greatest success yet achieved Schurter 2009, when he became the youngest driver in the history of mountain biking in the elite category world champion at the age of 23 years.

In April 2010 he won the opening race in Dalby Forest his first World Cup race in the elite category, which he at the same time also the first time took the lead in the overall World Cup, which he won in the same year for the first time.

At the 2011 World Championships in Champery, Valais won Schurter behind the Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy the silver medal. Two weeks after the World Championships, he was nominated by Swiss Olympic first Swiss for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and also won the silver medal behind Kulhavy in Cross Country.

Schurter 2013 was the 3rd time Cross Country Olympic champion in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Schurter is a member of Thomas Frisch servant Scott -Swiss Power Team mountain bike.

Nino Schurter lives in Chur. He is in Tersnaus, community Suraua, the Vals Valley, grew up.

Honors

2012 and 2013 Nino Schurter was elected to the Swiss cyclist of the year.