Xaver Kurmann

Xaver Kurmann

To person
Date of birth	August 29, 1948
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Train / street
height	1.78 meters
Racing weight	71 kilograms
Societies)
	VC Gippingen
Most important successes
Olympic Summer Games 1972 - Individual pursuit 1968 - Individual pursuit UCI track world championships 1970 - Individual pursuit 1969 - Individual pursuit UCI Road World Championships 1969 - team time trial (with Bruno Hubschmid , Josef Fuchs and Walter Bürki )
Last updated: January 2, 2020

Xaver Kurmann (born August 29, 1948 in Emmenbrücke ) is a former Swiss cyclist . From the late 1960s to the mid 1970s he was one of the most successful Swiss amateur cyclists, in various disciplines on the track as well as on the road .

Athletic career

Xaver Kurmann was a trained machine fitter . As a junior he won 22 cycling races, including the youth tour in the German Radevormwald .

Kurmann, who was considered the “favorite student” of national coach Oscar Plattner , competed at the Olympic Games twice - in 1968 and 1972 . In 1968 in Mexico City he won a bronze medal in the single pursuit and achieved 13th place with the Swiss team ( Walter Richard , Jörg Schneider and Bruno Hubschmid ) in the team pursuit . In Munich in 1972 he won his second Olympic medal in the single pursuit, this time a silver one. With the Swiss four-man track ( René Savary , Martin Steger and Christian Brunner ), he finished sixth in the team pursuit.

At the UCI Track World Championships in Brno in 1969 , Xaver Kurmann became the first Swiss world champion in the single pursuit and won bronze in the team time trial (with Bruno Hubschmid , Josef Fuchs and Walter Bürki ) behind the Fåglum brothers from Sweden and the team from Denmark . The following year Kurmann was able to repeat his success in the single pursuit in Leicester , but the four-man was not allowed to start again after a defect on Kurmann's bike. At the World Railroad Championships in 1973 in San Sebastián he lost to the German Rupert Kratzer in the race for third place .

Kurmann won gold eleven times at Swiss championships; 1969 and 1972 the Swiss road championship for amateurs, from 1967 to 1974 7 times the amateur single pursuit , 1970 and 1974 the 50-kilometer points race.

In 1974 he ended his career.

Honors

In 1969 Xaver Kurmann was voted Swiss Team of the Year together with Bürki, Hubschmid and Fuchs after their third place at the Road World Championships .

successes

train

1967

• Swiss champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit

1968

• Olympic Games - One's Pursuit
• World Championship - Individual Pursuit
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit

1969

• World champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit

1970

• World champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - points race

1972

• Olympic Games - One's Pursuit
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit

1973

• Swiss champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit

1974

• Swiss champions (amateurs) - individual pursuit, points race
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - team pursuit

Street

1969

• Road World Championship (amateurs) - team time trial (with Bruno Hubschmid , Josef Fuchs and Walter Bürki )
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - street races

1972

• Giro del Mendrisiotto
• Championship of Zurich (amateurs)
• Swiss champions (amateurs) - street races

1974

• Swiss champions team time trial

Web links

• Xaver Kurmann in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Xaver Kurmann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sepp Renggli : Swiss cycling. Yesterday, today, tomorrow . Silva Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-908487-36-6 , p. 112 .
2. ↑ Bronze for an excellent Swiss foursome . In: Vaterland , August 25, 1969.
3. ↑ Cycling. Illustrated cycling sport. Official body of the Federation of German Cyclists . August 11, 1970, p. 6.
4. ^ Charly Schlott, Ernst Bretscher, Nik Iseli: Swiss Cycling Swiss Champion . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on April 15, 2016 . 
5. ^ Charly Schlott, Ernst Bretscher, Nik Iseli: Swiss Cycling Swiss Champion . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; accessed on April 15, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Timeline. In: Suisse Sports Awards. Retrieved April 15, 2016 .