Carolina Lüthi

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Carolina Lüthi Road cycling
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Full name Carolina Andrea Lüthi
Date of birth February 11, 1972
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Train (endurance)
End of career 2007
Most important successes

European Railway Championships

2006 bronze - Omnium
Last updated: September 17, 2018

Carolina Andrea Lüthi (born February 11, 1972 in Lucerne ) is a former Swiss rower and cyclist.

Athletic career

rowing

In 1991 Carolina Lüthi started rowing. In 1993 and 1994 she won the bronze medal in singles at the U23 World Championships . Between 1994 and 2004 she regularly took part in the Rowing World Cup. At the rowing world championships she started in single and double sculls and was able to reach the World Cup final in 1997 and 2001. Between 1992 and 2004 she was Swiss rowing champion 21 times, in single and double sculls.

In 2000 and 2004 Lüthi started at the Olympic Games. In 2000 in Sydney, she and Bernadette Wicki finished seventh in a double scull among ten participating teams. Four years later at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Lüthi finished in a disappointing 15th place in the one. Thereupon she declares her resignation from the performance rowing.

Track cycling

Lüthi switched to track cycling . In 1997 she had already become the national runner-up in the Omnium . In 2005 and 2006 she became the Swiss omnium champion, and in 2006 she also won the bronze medal in this discipline at the European Railway Championships in Athens .

Private

Carolina Lüthi works as a nutritionist at ETH Zurich and is a member of the alumni rowing team there. She herself is a vegetarian .

Successes (track cycling)

2005
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss Champion - Omnium
2006
  • bronze European Championship - Omnium
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss Champion - Omnium

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b ETH Meets You in Boston. In: ethz.ch. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
  2. Carolina Lüthi resigned. In: news.ch. June 1, 2016, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Vegetarian athletes: Lüthi. In: vgt.ch. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .