Nino Schurter

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, 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. 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 for a number of road races during the 2014 season.

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).

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.

2012
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.

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. 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.

2013
On 2 September 2013, Schurter won his third World Championship title in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on one of his favourite cross-country courses.

2014
Schurter joined the Australian road race cycling team Orica–GreenEDGE during the 2014 season. He took part in the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Suisse.

In the 2014, mountain bike season, he lost his World Cup and World Championships titles. He finished in second place in Hafjell, Norway 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. He competed in the 2015 European Games for Switzerland, in mountain biking. He won the gold medal in the event.

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. 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 a Perfect season, as well as his sixth world championship.

Major results

 * 2004
 * UCI World Junior Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships


 * 2005
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships


 * 2006
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Under-23 Cross-country
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships


 * 2007
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Under-23 Cross-country
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg 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 Jersey rainbow.svg Under-23 Cross-country
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships
 * UCI XCO World Cup
 * 2nd Houffalize
 * 2nd Fort William
 * Swisspower Cup
 * 2nd Winterthur
 * 3rd Buchs
 * 3rd Bronze medal olympic.svg Cross-country, Olympic Games


 * 2009
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country, UCI World Championships
 * 5th Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 4th Schladming
 * 5th Madrid


 * 2010
 * 1st Jersey white.svg 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 Silver medal uci.svg Cross-country
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
 * 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Pietermaritzburg
 * 2nd Mont-Sainte-Anne
 * 2nd Windham
 * 2nd Nové Město
 * 2nd Val d'Isère


 * 2012
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country, UCI World Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Pietermaritzburg
 * 1st Nové Město
 * 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
 * 1st Val d'Isère
 * 2nd Houffalize
 * 2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Cross-country, Olympic Games


 * 2013
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country, UCI World Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Nové Město
 * 1st Val di Sole
 * 1st Vallnord
 * 2nd Hafjell
 * 3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Cross-country, UEC European Championships


 * 2014
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Cross-country
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
 * 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Nové Město
 * 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
 * 1st Windham
 * 1st Méribel
 * 2nd Albstadt


 * 2015
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country, UCI World Championships
 * 1st Gold medal blank.svg Cross-country, European Games
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
 * 1st Windham
 * 1st Val di Sole
 * 2nd Nové Město
 * 2nd Albstadt
 * 2nd Lenzerheide


 * 2016
 * 1st Gold medal olympic.svg Cross-country, Olympic Games
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country, UCI World Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Cairns
 * 1st Albstadt
 * 1st Lenzerheide
 * 4th La Bresse


 * 2017
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow Cape Epic.svg Overall Cape Epic (with Matthias Stirnemann)
 * 1st Jersey white.svg 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 Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 1st Jersey leopard Cape Epic.svg Overall Outcast Rider, Cape Epic
 * 1st Jersey white.svg 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 Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow Cape Epic.svg Overall Cape Epic (with Lars Forster)
 * 1st Jersey white.svg 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 Solothurn
 * 2nd Lugano
 * 1st Tokyo 2020 Test Event
 * Internazionali d'Italia Series
 * 3rd Monte Titano


 * 2020
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Cross-country, UEC European Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Cross-country, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow Epic Series.svg 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 Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country, UCI World Championships
 * Internazionali d'Italia Series
 * 2nd Andora
 * 2nd Nalles
 * 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 Jersey rainbow.svg Cross-country
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 1st Jersey white.svg 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 Jersey rainbow.svg Team relay
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Cross-country
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Overall UCI XCO World Cup
 * 1st Lenzerheide
 * 1st Val di Sole
 * 2nd Les Gets
 * 2nd Snowshoe
 * 3rd Nové Město
 * Ökk Bike Revolution
 * 1st Engelberg
 * 3rd Chur
 * 3rd Davos
 * 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