Juan Esteban Curuchet

Juan Esteban Curuchet

Juan Esteban Curuchet (2013)
To person
Date of birth	February 4, 1965
nation	Argentina
discipline	Train / street
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games 2008 - two-man team driving UCI track world championships 2004 - two-man team driving
Last updated: April 16, 2017

Juan Esteban Curuchet (born February 4, 1965 in Mar del Plata ) is an Argentine track and road cyclist. From the beginning of the 1990s to the end of the 2000s, he was one of the world's dominant track cyclists in the disciplines of points racing and two-man team racing . In 2008 he was Olympic champion in two-man team driving.

Athletic career

Juan Esteban Curuchet won the bronze medal in the points race at the 1992 track cycling world championships in Valencia . In the two-man team, he won silver with his brother Gabriel Curuchet at world championships in 1995 and bronze in 1997 , 2000 and 2001 . He also won the silver medal in the points race in 2001. At the following world championships, Curuchet won bronze in the two-man team driving and in the points test, and in 2003 he was again third in the two-man team driving. In 2004 he became world champion in two-man team driving for the first time in Melbourne together with Walter Pérez . In the points race he won bronze in the same year. At the 2006 in Bordeaux , Curuchet again secured bronze in the two-man team driving. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he was Olympic champion in two-man team driving with Pérez.

On the road, Curuchet won the overall classification at the Vuelta al Valle in 1994. In 1997 he won the overall ranking of the Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado. Here he was also successful in 1998 and in 2000. In 1998 he became Argentine champion in the individual time trial . He won this title again in 2002 in Santiago del Estero . In 2003 he won a stage at the Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado and also won the overall standings. In the 2008 season he was successful on a section of the Criterium Internacional in Mar del Plata .

Curuchet contested 55 six-day races, of which he won five, three with his brother Gabriel, one with Giovanni Lombardi and one with Pérez.

Juan Curuchet competed in the Olympic Games six times between 1984 and 2008, making him the cyclist with the most Olympic participations. He drove in the team pursuit, the points and the two-man team driving. In 2008 he was Olympic champion in two-man team driving with Walter Pérez . The Sports Journalists' Association then named them Argentina's Sportsman of the Year 2008. The following year, Curuchet was Argentinian time trial champion for the third time. He then ended his active cycling career.

Others

In June 2009 Juan Esteban Curuchet founded the “Fundación Juan Curuchet” to promote amateur sport. He is politically active in the frente renovador .

successes

train

Curuchet's gold medal from the 2008 Olympics

1992

• World Championship - points race

1995

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Gabriel Curuchet )
• Six day race Mar del Plata (with Gabriel Curuchet )

1997

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Gabriel Curuchet)

1998

• Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - two-man team driving (with Gabriel Curuchet)

1999

• Track cycling world cup in Cali - points race
• Track World Cup in San Francisco - points race
• Six days Buenos Aires (with Gabriel Curuchet)

2000

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Edgardo Simón )
• Six days Buenos Aires (with Gabriel Curuchet)

2001

• World Championship - points race
• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Gabriel Curuchet)

2003

• World Cup Aguascalientes - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez )
• World Cup Cape Town - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez)
• Six-day race Fiorenzuola d 'Arda (with Giovanni Lombardi )
• Argentinian champion - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez)

2004

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez)
• World Cup Moscow - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez )
• World Cup Aguascalientes - points race
• World Cup Sydney - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez)

2005

• Panamerican champions - points race
• Pan American champions - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez)

2007

• Six days Turin (with Walter Pérez)

2008

• Olympic champion - two-man team driving (with Walter Pérez)

Street

1992

• one stage tour of Argentina

1994

• Vuelta al Valle

1997

• Doble Bragado

1998

• Argentinian champion - individual time trial
• Doble Bragado

2000

• Doble Bragado

2002

• Argentinian champion - individual time trial

2009

• Argentinian champion - individual time trial

Teams

• 1989 Giessegi
• 1990 Giessegi
• 1991 Giessegi
• 1992 Rudy Project
• 1992 Supermercados Toledo
• 1993 Supermercados Toledo
• 1994 Supermercados Toledo
• 1995 Supermercados Toledo

literature

• Marcelo Maller: Juan Curuchet. Sangre, Sudor y Oro. Ediciones Al Arco, Buenos Aires 2008, ISBN 978-987-1367-13-9 .

Web links

• Juan Esteban Curuchet in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Juan Esteban Curuchet in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Juan Curuchet a 10 años de ganar la medalla olímpica: "Valió la pena". In: La Nueva. August 9, 2018, accessed April 16, 2019 .  (Interview with Curuchet from August 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
2. ^ Fundación Juan Curuchet para el Deporte. In: fundacionjuancuruchet.com. Retrieved April 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Juan Curuchet: "Desde el Frente Renovador se puede proyectar en equipo". In: lacapitalmdp.com. October 2, 2016, Retrieved April 16, 2019 (Spanish). 

Two-man team driving