Claudio Imhof

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Claudio Imhof Road cycling
Claudio Imhof with his bronze medal at the European Railways 2015
Claudio Imhof with his
bronze medal at the European Railways 2015
To person
Date of birth 26th September 1990 (age 29)
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Rail / street
To the team
Current team Team Vorarlberg Santic
function driver
Most important successes
UEC European Road Championships
2020 silver - mixed relay
UCI track world championships
2016 bronze - Scratch
European Games
2019 bronze - Team Pursuit
UEC European Rail Championships
2015 bronze - points race
Last updated: May 7, 2020

Claudio Imhof (born September 26, 1990 in Scherzingen ) is a Swiss cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2006 Claudio Imhof was runner-up in the Swiss Youth Road Race Championships. He then shifted his focus to the railway and developed into a versatile driver there. 2008 was a particularly successful year for him: at the Junior Track World Championships in Cape Town he took third place in the Omnium , at the Junior European Championships in Pruszków he won the scratch title , and together with Silvan Dillier he won the UIV- Cup , the junior competition for six-day drivers , in Zurich .

In 2009 Imhof became Swiss champion in team pursuit , together with Franco Marvulli , Alexander Aeschbach and Bernhard Oberholzer . In January 2011 Claudio Imhof took third place in the points race at the World Cup race in Beijing . At the UEC European Rail Championships in 2011 in Apeldoorn, he won the silver medal in two-man team driving after a long injury break, together with Cyrille Thièry . At the domestic UEC European Rail Championships in 2015 in Grenchen , he took bronze in the points run. A few months later, in March 2016, Claudio Imhof was third in scratch at the World Railroad Championships in London . At the UEC European Rail Championships in Glasgow in 2018 , Imhof won two medals, bronze in the single pursuit and silver in the team pursuit with Cyrille Thièry, Frank Pasche , Stefan Bissegger and Théry Schir .

In January 2019, he won the Omnium at the Rail World Cup in Cambridge, New Zealand . In addition, the Swiss four with Imhof in his ranks set a new Swiss record with 3: 54.858 minutes . In June, the Swiss four-man team won bronze at the European Games in Minsk with Imhof, Schir, Lukas Rüegg and Robin Froidevaux .

successes

train

2008
  • European champion European Champion - Scratch (Juniors)
  • bronzeWorld Championship - Madison (with Silvan Dillier )
2009
2011
  • silverEuropean Championship - Madison (with Cyrille Thièry )
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss Champion - Madison (with Silvan Dillier)
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Street

2019
2020

Teams

Web links

Commons : Claudio Imhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rüegg and Selenati take bronze. In: zueriost.ch. June 28, 2019, accessed May 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Imhof, Claudio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Joking