Laura Stigger
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| Laura Stigger at the Road World Cup 2018 | |
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| Date of birth | 25th September 2000 (age 19) |
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 Austria
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| discipline | Mountain bike , road , cyclocross |
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| URC Ötztal | |
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| Last updated: January 22nd, 2019 | |
Laura Stigger (born September 25, 2000 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian cyclist . She specializes in the XCO discipline and is two-time junior world champion cross-country (2017, 2018) and junior world champion in road racing (2018).
Athletic career
Laura Stigger has been active in cycling since 2007. It starts for the URC Ötztal . From 2014 to 2016 she was European Youth Champion in Cross Country (XCO) . In 2017 she won the Junior World Championship, the Junior European Championship, the Juniors World Cup and all races of the season.
In July 2018, the junior celebrated her fifth European Championship gold in cross-country (4.2 km and 250 hm) in Graz. After 2017, Laura Stigger won her second junior world championship in cross-country at the mountain bike world championships in Lenzerheide in Switzerland in 2018.
On September 27, 2018, two days after her 18th birthday, in what was only her second road race , the Tyrolean also won the Junior Women's World Championship gold at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck . At the beginning of the 2019 season, she announced that she would initially focus on the U23 Mountain Bike World Cup . On May 19, 2019, she won the series' opening race.
Life
Laura Stigger attended the BORG Innsbruck , which she graduated with the Matura in 2020. She lives in Haiming .
Awards
- 2017 Female Radstar of the Year from radstars.at
- When she was voted “Tyrol's Sportsman of the Year 2017” she was awarded a Viktor as climber of the year .
- In November 2018, Laura Stigger was awarded the “ Piotr Nurowski Prize ” for the best young athlete by the European Olympic Committee at the EOC General Assembly .
- In January 2019 Laura Stigger was voted Austria's cyclist of the year 2018 . She was the youngest athlete to ever win this election, as well as the winner with the highest number of votes.
- Tyrol's Sportswoman of the Year 2018
successes
Mountain bike
2014
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Youth European Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
2015
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Youth European Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
2016
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Youth European Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
2017
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Junior World Champion - Cross-Country (XCO) -
Junior European Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
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Austrian Junior Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
2018
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Junior World Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
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Junior European Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
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Austrian Junior Champion - Cross-Country (XCO)
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Austrian Champion - Cross-Country Eliminator (XCE) 2019
- Austrian champion cross-country
- Vice World Champion U23- Cross Country
- Vice European Champion U23- Cross Country
Street
2018
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Junior World Champion - Road Race
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Olympic Youth Summer Games 2018 Women's team combination (team time trial, road race, criterion, MTB short race, MTB eliminator)
Web links
- Laura Stigger in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Laura Stigger in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Buenos Aires 2018. In: buenosaires2018.com. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
- Portrait Laura Stigger (Red Bull Athlete Page)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laura Stigger Austrian Champion in Mountain Bike Cross Country 2012. In: mein district.at. January 8, 2013, accessed January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Laura Stigger. In: Friends of young talent sports Tyrol. March 18, 2017, accessed August 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Laura Stigger with Red Bull wings (January 30, 2018)
- ↑ Laura Stigger is MTB Cross Country Junior European Champion
- ↑ Laura's demonstration of power (September 7, 2018)
- ↑ UCI Road World Championships 2018 - Laura wants more (September 27, 2018)
- ↑ Cycling World Cup - Junior Stigger wins sensational gold ORF (September 27, 2018)
- ↑ Laura Stigger sensationally wins gold among juniors (September 27, 2018)
- ↑ Peter Maurer: The racing bike is not an issue for Stigger in 2019. In: radsport-news.com. January 24, 2019, accessed January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Tyrolean Stigger won her debut race in the U23 World Cup. May 19, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Laura Stigger is Radstar of the Year. In: mein district.at. January 5, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Denifl and Brunner Sportsman of the Year. In: tirol.orf.at. April 27, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Young Talent Award of the EOC for Laura Stigger. In: radsportverband.at. November 11, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Junior World Champion Stigger cyclist of the year. In: kleinezeitung.at. January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 . Athletes of both sexes are included in the election.
- ↑ Laura Stigger triumphs in the 2018 cycling election. In: radsportverband.at. January 21, 2019, accessed January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Great honor for Laura Stigger (April 26, 2019)
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| SURNAME | Stigger, Laura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 2000 |