Juan Curuchet

Juan Curuchet

Personal information
Full name	Juan Esteban Curuchet
Born	(1965-02-04) 4 February 1965 (age 59) Mar del Plata, Argentina
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight	75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)[1]
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1989–1991	Giessegi
1992	Rudy Project
1992–1995	Supermercados Toledo
Medal record Representing  Argentina Men's track cycling Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Madison World Championships 2004 Melbourne Madison 1995 Bogota Madison 2001 Antwerp Points Race 1992 Valencia Points Race 1997 Perth Madison 2000 Manchester Madison 2001 Antwerp Madison 2002 Ballerup Madison 2002 Ballerup Points Race 2003 Stuttgart Madison 2004 Melbourne Points Race 2006 Bordeaux Madison Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg Madison 2003 Santo Domingo Madison 2007 Rio de Janeiro Madison 1983 Caracas Points Race 2003 Santo Domingo Team Pursuit Pan American Championships 2005 Mar del Plata Points race 2005 Mar del Plata Madison 2006 São Paulo Madison

Juan Esteban Curuchet (born 4 February 1965 in Mar del Plata) is an Argentine road bicycle racer and track cyclist.

Curuchet represented Argentina at the Summer Olympics in 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008.^[2]

He won the madison at the 1999 Pan American Games with his older brother, Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet. He also won the madison at the 2003 Pan American Games and 2007 Pan American Games alongside Walter Pérez and the Cycling World Championships in 2004 (Men's Madison).

Curuchet holds an Argentine record of participating in six non-consecutive Olympic games. He retired from his Olympic career at age 43, by winning the Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Walter Pérez.^[3]

In 2008, he received the gold Gold Olimpia Award as the best athlete of the year from his country with Walter Pérez. In 2000 and 2010 he won the Platinum Konex Award as the best cyclist of the last decade in Argentina.