Marc Hirschi

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Marc Hirschi Road cycling
Marc Hirschi as U23 world champion in road racing (2018)
Marc Hirschi as U23 world champion in road racing (2018)
To person
Date of birth 24th August 1998 (age 22)
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
To the team
Current team Team Sunweb
function driver
Societies)
RRC Bern
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2018 World Champion - Road Race (U23)
UCI Track World Championships for Juniors
2016 World Champion - two-man team driving
UEC European Road Championships
2018 European Champion 2016 - Road Race (U23)
2017 bronze - Street race (U23)
2016 silver - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
Last updated: October 2, 2019

Marc Hirschi (born August 24, 1998 in Bern ) is a Swiss cyclist who competes in races on track and road .

Athletic career

In 2014, in his first year as a junior, Marc Hirschi took third place in the Swiss junior championship in road racing . The following year he made the professional world sit up and take notice when he won several renowned junior races, such as the Grand Prix Général Patton in Luxembourg and the GP Rüebliland . In 2016 he won the Bern Tour and the Tour du Pays de Vaud in the junior class and was again Swiss junior road champion.

Also in 2016, Hirschi and Reto Müller became junior world champion in two-man team driving , and a few months later the two athletes won the national elite title in this discipline. At the UEC European Road Championships in 2016 he was runner-up in the individual time trial . The following year he won bronze in the U23 road race at the European Championships .

In 2018 he became the U23 European road race champion and at the end of the season he also won the U23 road race at the UCI road world championships after he was able to distance himself from his three-man escape group in the downhill ten kilometers from the finish. At the Germany Tour in the same year he won the junior ranking. At the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire , he finished 13th in the U23 time trial and 27th in the elite road race.

In 2020, Marc Hirschi took second place in the sprint on the 2nd stage of the Tour de France behind the French Julian Alaphilippe and ahead of the British Adam Yates .

Trivia

In April 2016, the Swiss national trainer Daniel Gisiger said of Marc Hirschi: "You rarely have a driver with such great potential as a national trainer." Hirschi lives in Ittigen , the place where his role model Fabian Cancellara also lives.

In 2018, Hirschi was honored with a Swiss Cycling Award as the young Swiss cyclist of the year.

successes

Street

2015
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss junior champions - street races
2016
2017
2018
2019

train

2016

Teams

Web links

Commons : Marc Hirschi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Championships: Hirschi wins under-23 road race. In: cyclingnews.com. September 28, 2018, accessed September 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ boe / pam: Alaphilippe takes victory and yellow - Marc Hirschi missed a sensational victory by centimeters. In: srf.ch. August 30, 2020, accessed August 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael Forster: An origin that obliges. Solothurner Zeitung, April 9, 2016, accessed October 5, 2016 . (pdf)
  4. ^ Hope for the future Marc Hirschi has an origin that obliges. In: basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch. October 4, 2016, accessed October 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Gold and Gloria on the gala evening. In: Swiss Cycling. November 9, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hirschi, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern