Nathalie Schneitter

Nathalie Schneitter

Nathalie Schneitter in July 2011
To person
Date of birth	19th June 1986 (age 34)
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Mountain bike
Most important successes
Swiss Championships Swiss Champion - Juniors 2003 Swiss Champion - Cross Country 2011
Last updated: April 12, 2018

Nathalie Schneitter (born June 19, 1986 in Lommiswil ) is a former Swiss mountain bike rider.

Career

Nathalie Schneitter started mountain biking in 2000.

After her Swiss championship title in 2003, Nathalie Schneitter achieved her greatest successes to date at the European championships with third place and the world championship title in the junior category. The results she was able to achieve in the U23 category include: 2006 the silver medal at the U23 Swiss Championships; at the European championships she was classified in sixth place, at the world championships in fifth place.

In 2008 she became European champion in the U23 category and won the silver medal at the world championships. In 2010 Nathalie Schneitter celebrated her first and only World Cup victory in Chambéry in Valais - this was also the first World Cup victory for a Swiss woman since Barbara Blatter in Vancouver in 2001.

Nathalie Schneitter took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished 15th in the mountain bike race .

Another silver medal came at the home world championships in 2011 in Chambéry in the relay (together with the Olympic champion of Rio Nino Schurter , Lars Forster and Thomas Litscher ).

In 2012 she suffered a broken collarbone in a serious fall at the World Cup race in La Bresse.

Nathalie Schneitter attended the canton school in Solothurn and then obtained a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of Basel .

Nathalie Schneitter announced her resignation from professional sport at the end of 2016.

successes

• 1st place Swiss Championship 2003 (category juniors)
• 3rd place European Championship 2004 (category juniors)
• 1st place World Championship 2004 (category juniors)
• 2nd place Swiss Championship 2006 (Cat. U23)
• 6th place European Championships 2006 (Cat. U23)
• 5th place World Championships 2006 (Cat. U23)
• 7th place World Championships 2007 (Cat. U23)
• 1st place European Championships 2008 (Cat. U23)
• 2nd place World Championships 2008 (Cat. U23)
• 2nd place Swiss Championship Cross Country 2010
• 2nd place World Championships 2011 (relay)
• 1st place Swiss Championship Cross Country 2011
• 15th place World Championships 2013 (Elite women)
• 2nd place Swiss Championship Cross Country 2015

Web links

• Nathalie Schneitter's website
• Nathalie Schneitter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Nathalie Schneitter in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nathalie Schneitter wins her first World Cup race
2. ↑ Resignation of Nathalie Schneitter from Solothurn from top-class sport (September 12, 2016)