Powerbike Winterthur

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Powerbike Winterthur is a BMX and mountain bike club from Winterthur . The club has already provided several Swiss champions in four-cross and BMX.

The BMX track in Dättnau ( 47 ° 28 ′ 35.2 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 54.6 ″  E ) was built in 1984. In 1993 the local BMX Club Winterthur was expanded to Powerbike Winterthur in order to also cover the mountain bike sector and to prevent the migration of members who leave the BMX sector with increasing age. On the BMX course in Dättnau on 5./6. June 2011 already carried out two EM rounds for the fifth time.

Well-known athletes

  • David Graf (BMX Swiss champion 2013, 2014, 2016–2019, BMX world championship third in 2015, Olympic participant in BMX 2016, pump track world champion 2018)
  • Lucia Oetjen (Four-Cross European Championship third 2009, Four-Cross Swiss Champion 2011 and 2012) - was previously at the BMX Club Littau and RMV Ebikon.
  • Miriam Ruchti ( Downhill Swiss Champion 2012)
  • Roger Rinderknecht ( BMX Swiss Champion 2000-2002 and 2008, BMX European Champion 2003, Four Cross Swiss Champion 2004, Four Cross World Champion 2012, Olympic participant in BMX 2008 and 2012)
  • Denise Ruiz (BMX Swiss Champion 2005)
  • Reto Schmid ( Four-Cross Swiss Champion 2005, 2006 and 2008)
  • Adrian Weiss (Four Cross Swiss Champion 2012)
  • Simon Waldburger (Four Cross Swiss Champion 2018)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official result 2013 (PDF; 31 kB)
  2. ↑ a b Sport Award 2018 from February 28, 2019. Panathlon Club Winterthur, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Article «Investing in the youth is worthwhile», Der Landbote from February 24, 2010
  4. ↑ [wayback.archive.org/web/20110831031145/ http://www.bmxwinterthur.ch/archives/1409 News report "Lucia Oetjen 4-Cross CH-Champion 2011" on bmxwinterthur.ch] (Memento in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c Article «Winterthur Crown for the Queen» by Urs Stanger. The messenger from March 1, 2013.
  6. ↑ Article «Deserved wages for amateurs and professionals», Der Landbote from February 21, 2003
  7. ↑ Official classification 2008 ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 34 kB)
  8. ↑ Swiss Cycling Journal 09/2005 ( Memento of March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.6 MB; Memento in the Internet Archive)

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