Laura Stigger Explained
| Laura Stigger |
| Birth Date: | 25 September 2000 |
| Birth Place: | Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria |
| Currentteam: | URC Ötztal |
| Role: | Rider |
| Majorwins: |
- Mountain bike
XC World Cup
1 individual win (2023)
Cape Epic (2021) |
| Show-Medals: | no |
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.
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.
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]
Major results
Mountain bike
- 2017
1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
- 2018
1st Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
1st Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
- 2020
1st Cross-country, National Championships
Swiss Bike Cup
1st Gstaad
1st Rund um den Roadlberg
UCI XCO World Cup
5th Nové Město I
5th Nové Město II
- 2021
National Championships
1st Short track
1st Eliminator
1st Overall Cape Epic (with Sina Frei)
1st Prologue, Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7
Swiss Bike Cup
1st Basel
1st Coppa Città Di Albenga
2nd Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
UCI XCO World Cup
3rd Leogang
- 2022
UCI XCO World Cup
3rd Leogang
4th Petropolis
4th Vallnord
- 2023
4th Overall UCI XCO World Cup
1st Snowshoe
3rd Leogang
4th Val di Sole
UCI XCC World Cup
1st Nové Město
1st Val di Sole
1st Mont-Sainte-Anne
1st Haiming
- 2024
National Championships
1st Cross-country
1st Short track
UCI XCO World Cup
4th Crans-Montana
5th Nové MěstoRoad
- 2018
1st Road race, UCI World Junior ChampionshipsNotes and References
- Web site: Laura Stigger . ProCyclingStats . 27 September 2018 .
- Web site: Stigger and Balmer win Junior XCO titles. nextmedia Pty Ltd.. 2 October 2018. 6 September 2018. en.
- Web site: 2018: World Championships – World Championships WJ – Road Race . ProCyclingStats . 27 September 2018.
- Web site: UCI World Championships – Laura Stigger claims women's junior title . Eurosport . 27 September 2018.
- Web site: Austrian Laura Stigger wins junior women's World Championship road race in front of home crowds . Cycling Weekly . 27 September 2018 . 27 September 2018.
- Web site: Cross-country Olympic – Lenzerheide – 05 Sep 2018 Results . UCI . 3 October 2018. en.
- Web site: Laura Stigger. MTBCrossCountry.com. 4 October 2018. en.
- Web site: 2014 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championship Results . UEC . 5 October 2018. en. see page 22
- Web site: 2016 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championships Results . UEC . 5 October 2018. en. see page 1
- Web site: Tokyo 2020 – Cycling Mountain Bike – Results . olympics.com . 4 August 2021 . 25 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210725202818/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/cycling-mountain-bike/results-women-s-cross-country-fnl-000100-.htm . dead .
