Laura Stigger

Laura Stigger
Stigger in 2018
Personal information
Born (2000-09-25) 25 September 2000 (age 23)
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Team information
Current teamURC Ötztal
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider type
Major wins
Mountain bike
XC World Cup
1 individual win (2023)
Cape Epic (2021)
Medal record
Representing  Austria
Women's mountain bike race
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Cairns Junior Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lenzerheide Junior Cross-country
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Darfo Boario Terme Junior Cross-country
Gold medal – first place 2018 Graz Junior Cross-country
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Innsbruck Junior road race

Laura Stigger (born 25 September 2000) is an Austrian racing cyclist.[1] She won the women's junior road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships and the junior Mountain Bike race (XCO)[2] event at the 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.[3][4][5] She also won the junior Mountain Bike race (XCO) event at the 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.[2]

To date, Stigger is the only cyclist to win both the Road World Championship and the Mountain Bike World Championship in the same year, winning both titles within twenty-two days.[6] The former was only her second road race ever.[5]

In 2017 and 2018, she won every Junior Mountain Bike race she participated in, a total of 26 races, with most of them at international level.[7] It was the same when she was younger still.[8][9]

She competed in the cross-country race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[10]

  1. ^ "Laura Stigger". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Stigger and Balmer win Junior XCO titles". nextmedia Pty Ltd. 6 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  3. ^ "2018: World Championships – World Championships WJ – Road Race". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  4. ^ "UCI World Championships – Laura Stigger claims women's junior title". Eurosport. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Austrian Laura Stigger wins junior women's World Championship road race in front of home crowds". Cycling Weekly. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Cross-country Olympic – Lenzerheide – 05 Sep 2018 Results". UCI. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Laura Stigger". MTBCrossCountry.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  8. ^ "2014 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championship Results" (PDF). UEC. Retrieved 5 October 2018. see page 22
  9. ^ "2016 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championships Results" (PDF). UEC. Retrieved 5 October 2018. see page 1
  10. ^ "Tokyo 2020 – Cycling Mountain Bike – Results". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.