Christoph Sauser

Christoph Sauser

Christoph Sauser

Christoph Sauser (born April 13, 1976 in Sigriswil ) is a former Swiss mountain biker .

Athletic career

His greatest successes include winning ten mountain bike world cup races in cross country and winning the overall World Cup in 2004 and 2005. At the Olympic Games in Sydney (2000) he won the bronze medal in this discipline. He won his first world title in 2007 at the mountain bike marathon world championships . In 2008 he became world champion in cross country , having previously finished second twice and third once. At the marathon world championships in 2008 he was relegated to second place after he was accused of bringing down Roel Paulissen in the finish sprint . In 2013 he won his second marathon title. Sauser also won six Swiss championships and was European champion in the U23 category in 1998 .

In 2015, Sauser won the South African Cape Epic race together with Jaroslav Kulhavý . It was his fifth victory, which makes him a record holder with Karl Platt . His last race was the 2015 World Marathon Championship, where he finished second.

Web links

• Official website
• Christoph Sauser in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Christoph Sauser in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sauser & Paulissen crash in controversial marathon worlds sprint finish. cyclingnews.com, April 22, 2009, accessed August 4, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Timo Albiez: Sauser with golden farewell - Swiss Cycling. (No longer available online.) In: swiss-cycling.ch. March 23, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved April 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Farewell to Christoph Sauser: Last race in the Marathon World Championship? velototal.de, June 11, 2015, accessed on August 4, 2015 .