Robin Froidevaux

Robin Froidevaux
	Robin Froidevaux (2019)
To person
Date of birth	17th October 1998 (age 21)
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Track (endurance) / street / BMX
To the team
Current team	Akros-Excelsior-Thömus
Most important successes
	European Games 2019 - two-man team driving 2019 - Team Pursuit UEC European Road Championships 2020 - mixed relay
	Last updated: July 17, 2020

Robin Froidevaux (born October 17, 1998 in Morges ) is a Swiss cyclist who competes on track and road .

Athletic career

Robin Froidevaux initially worked as a BMX rider for ten years before switching to road and rail. His father is the former cyclist Bastien Froidevaux.

In 2015, Froidevaux set a new Swiss record in the team pursuit at the Junior European Railway Championships together with Gino Mäder , Stefan Bissegger and Reto Müller with 4: 09.808 minutes , a few weeks later the Swiss junior track four improved with the same line-up at the Junior World Championships with 4 : 08.523 minutes on this record and won the silver medal. In the same year he started in the world championships in road racing of the juniors and was 35.

In 2016 he became the Swiss Junior Champion in the Omnium . At the U23 European Railway Championships in 2018, he won silver in the team pursuit together with Stefan Bissegger, Lukas Rüegg and Valère Thiébaud . In the road race of the national U23 road championships, Froidevaux came second.

In 2019 Robin Froidevaux became Swiss champion of the elite in the Omnium. In the same year he won the two-man team driving with Tristan Marguet at the European Games in Minsk ; in the team pursuit he won the bronze medal with Théry Schir , Lukas Rüegg and Claudio Imhof . At the World Cup in Cambridge , the Swiss four-man won with Froidevaux in the team.