Patrick Schnetzer

Patrick Schnetzer
	Patrick Schnetzer at the 2018 World Cup in Liège
To person
Date of birth	15th November 1993 (age 26)
nation	Austria
discipline	Bike ball
To the team
Current team	RC Höchst
function	goalkeeper
Most important successes
	World Champion 2011 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019 Overall World Cup Winner 2012 , 2014 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018, 2019 European Champion 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Austrian Champion 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 ; ; ;
	Last updated: December 11, 2019

Patrick Schnetzer (born November 15, 1993 ) is an Austrian cyclist . He won the Junior European Championship three times in a row from 2009 to 2011, became the youngest cycling world champion in history in 2011 and is seven-time world champion (2011-2019).

Career

At the Austrian championships for pupils A, Schnetzer took third place in 2005 and became Austrian champion in 2006. He started his career at RV Sulz and moved to RC Höchst in 2006.

In 2007 he started with the youth team and again reached first place. In 2008 and 2009 he was able to hold this place in the juniors again. In 2009 he also became European junior champion. In 2010 he moved from the juniors straight to the first division, where he then played with Dietmar Schneider .

Although he was only 16 years old, he was hugely successful with the elite in his first year. In 2011 he received the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria .

At the beginning of 2013 Dietmar Schneider ended his active career and Patrick Schnetzer then played in the new season together with the highest Markus Bröll .

In November 2017 he started with Markus Bröll at the Indoor Cycling World Championships 2017 in Dornbirn and the two became vice world champions after a 3: 4 in the final against Germany.

In November 2018 he won the world champion title for the sixth time with Markus Bröll in Liège and in December 2019 he again secured the seventh world champion title with Markus Bröll in Basel .

In January 2020 he won the overall World Cup again at Markus Bröll's final tournament. As the only team to date, the two have won all four World Cup tournaments and the season's World Cup final. After the final tournament he changed clubs and has since played with Stefan Feurstein for RV Dornbirn.

Private

Patrick Schnetzer is in a relationship with the German art cyclist and multiple world champion Nadja Thürmer .

Sporting successes

World Championship
- World champions 2011 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019
- Silver medal 2012 , 2017
- Bronze medal 2010
Overall World Cup
- 1st place 2012 , 2014 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018, 2019
- 2nd place 2011 , 2015
- 3rd place 2013
European Cup / European Championship
- 1st place in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018, 2019
- 3rd place 2012 , 2013
Austrian championship
- 1st place in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- 2nd place 2010, 2015
- 3rd place 2013
Austrian Cup
- 1st place 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
- 2nd place 2013, 2016
- 3rd place 2011
European Cup U23
- 1st place 2012, 2013, 2015
- 2nd place 2011
- 3rd place 2010, 2014
Junior European Championship
- 1st place in 2009, 2010, 2011

World Cup Statistics

year	partner	1. T.	2. T.	3rd T.	4. T.	Points	Qual	final
2009	Florian Fischer ^(a)	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010	Dietmar Schneider		5	4th	4 ^(b)	140	7th	4th
2011	Dietmar Schneider					185	2
2012	Dietmar Schneider		4th			185	1
2013	Markus Bröll				4th	180	3
2014	Markus Bröll		4th			175	3
2015	Markus Bröll			5		180	1
2016	Markus Bröll			5		175	2
2017	Markus Bröll	4th			- ^(c)	135	2
2018	Markus Bröll					195	1
2019	Markus Bröll ^(d)					200	1
Status : January 22, 2020

Participations: 50
gold medals: 28
silver medals: 8
bronze medals: 3

Legend
Year: Calls the year of the World Cup. Partner: Playing partner in this World Cup year. 1st day: (1st tournament, out of 4) the athlete's rank in this tournament. Points: World Cup points that the player had at the end of qualification. Quali: Rank at the end of the qualification. Final: Rank in the final, if this was achieved.

^(a) Patrick Schnetzer replaced Simon Lubetz at the tournament in Höchst in 2009.

^(b) Marco Schallert replaced Patrick Schnetzer at the tournament in Höchst in 2010.

^(c) In the 2017 season, each team only played three tournaments.

^(d) Ongoing competition.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Cycling World Champion - a dream came true (November 6, 2011)
↑ Cycling world champions Patrick Schnetzer and Markus Bröll (November 15, 2017)
↑ UCI - Schedule of Indoor Cycling World Championships 2017 ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Uri cycling duo takes bronze at the World Cup (November 25, 2018)
↑ Sixth World Championship title for Patrick Schnetzer and Markus Bröll (December 8, 2019)
↑ Thomas Knobel: In the end, cycling champions were invincible. In: Vorarlberg Online. Russmedia Digital GmbH, January 19, 2020, accessed on January 22, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schnetzer, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1993

[1] Cycling World Champion - a dream came true (November 6, 2011)

[2] Cycling world champions Patrick Schnetzer and Markus Bröll (November 15, 2017)

[3] UCI - Schedule of Indoor Cycling World Championships 2017 ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] Uri cycling duo takes bronze at the World Cup (November 25, 2018)

[5] Sixth World Championship title for Patrick Schnetzer and Markus Bröll (December 8, 2019)

[6] Thomas Knobel: In the end, cycling champions were invincible. In: Vorarlberg Online. Russmedia Digital GmbH, January 19, 2020, accessed on January 22, 2020 .