Laura Stigger
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Born | Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria | 25 September 2000||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | URC Ötztal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Cross-country mountain biking, Road bicycle racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Laura Stigger (born 25 September 2000) is an Austrian racing cyclist.[1] She won the women's junior road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships and the junior Mountain Bike race (XCO)[2] event at the 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.[3][4][5] She also won the junior Mountain Bike race (XCO) event at the 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.[2]
To date, Stigger is the only cyclist to win both the Road World Championship and the Mountain Bike World Championship in the same year, winning both titles within twenty-two days.[6] The former was only her second road race ever.[5]
In 2017 and 2018, she won every Junior Mountain Bike race she participated in, a total of 26 races, with most of them at international level.[7] It was the same when she was younger still.[8][9]
She competed in the cross-country race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[10]
Major results[]
Mountain bike[]
- 2017
- 1st
UCI World Junior XCO Championships
- 1st
UEC European Junior XCO Championships
- 2018
- 1st
UCI World Junior XCO Championships
- 1st
UEC European Junior XCO Championships
- 2020
- 1st
National XCO Championships
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Gstaad
- 1st Rund um den Roadlberg
- 2021
- 1st
National XCC Championships
- 1st
National XCE Championships
- 1st
Overall Cape Epic (with Sina Frei)
- 1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Basel
- 1st Coppa Citta' Di Albenga
- 2nd
UCI World Under-23 XCO Championships
- XCO World Cup
- 3rd Leogang
Road[]
- 2018
- 1st
Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
References[]
- ^ "Laura Stigger". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ a b "Stigger and Balmer win Junior XCO titles". nextmedia Pty Ltd. 6 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "2018: World Championships - World Championships WJ - Road Race". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "UCI World Championships - Laura Stigger claims women's junior title". Eurosport. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ a b "Austrian Laura Stigger wins junior women's World Championship road race in front of home crowds". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Cross-country Olympic - Lenzerheide - 05 Sep 2018 Results". UCI. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ "Laura Stigger". MTBCrossCountry.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ "2014 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championship Results" (PDF). UEC. Retrieved 5 October 2018. see page 22
- ^ "2016 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championships Results" (PDF). UEC. Retrieved 5 October 2018. see page 1
- ^ "Tokyo 2020 - Cycling Mountain Bike - Results". olympics.com. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
External links[]
- Laura Stigger at Cycling Archives
- Laura Stigger at ProCyclingStats
- Laura Stigger at Olympedia
Media related to Laura Stigger at Wikimedia Commons
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Austrian female cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Austria