Andrea Clavadetscher

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Andrea Clavadetscher (born December 14, 1960 in Schiers ) is a former cyclist from Liechtenstein and national cycling champion .

Athletic career

Clavadetscher started as an amateur for the Velo Club Ruggell . He began cycling in 1974 and has already competed in school races. In 1981 he was promoted to the elite class of amateurs in Switzerland. In his career as a cyclist he was able to achieve more than 50 victories and around 250 podium finishes. He won the first of his seven successes at the Liechtenstein Championships in 1983. In 1989 and 1991 he was also able to secure the national title in the Swiss amateur road race . He also won the most important one-day race in Liechtenstein, the Schellenberg Tour, twice, for the first time in 1983 at the 20th edition and again in 1987.

He was also active as a train driver. In 1986, 1988 and 1989 he was second in the championship of amateur stayers in Switzerland; He came third in the 1987 championships. A victory in the six-day amateurs race in Zurich in 1987 is in his palmares. At the UCI World Championships he took a total of eight times (for the first time in 1981). 12th place in the Tour of Austria 1983 was his best place in a big tour of the country. In 1984 he also competed in the Tour de l'Avenir . Andrea Clavadetscher switched to long-distance cycling races in the course of his career. In 2001 he won the Race Across America , which was completed over a distance of 4800 kilometers from Portland ( Oregon ) to Gulf Breeze in California (and, among other things, over 30,000 meters in altitude). In 2003 he won the xxxalps race. On August 7, 2004, he set a world record in the 24-hour cycle race with a distance of 813.636 kilometers. He had previously won the international American championship in the 24-hour time trial in 2002 .

Professional

After his career, he works as a speaker and gives motivational seminars on topics such as “Desire for performance” and “Courage for the unimaginable” . In 2019 he was appointed national trainer for the mountain bike marathon national team by the Swiss Association .

Honors

In 1991 and 2001 Clavadetscher was Liechtenstein athlete of the year.

literature

So far Clavadetscher has published two books:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Velo Club Ruggell. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SportzeitAnstalt (ed.): Liechtenstein cycling legends . No. 04/2010 . Eschen 2010, p. 23 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Andrea Clavadetscher - About him. In: clavi.ch. August 7, 2004, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Liechtensteiner Cyclists Association (Ed.): 60 years of Liechtenstein Cyclists Association . Ruggell 2010, p. 28 .
  5. ^ Race Across America. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Extreme sports: the toughest bike race in the world. FAZ, accessed on September 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b Andrea Clavadetscher becomes the coach of the marathonist. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Clavadetscher, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein cyclist and national champion in cycling
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiers