Laura Stigger
Austrian cyclist (born 2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Born | (2000-09-25) 25 September 2000 (age 23) Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | URC Ötztal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]