Argentine cyclist (born 1965)
Juan Curuchet Personal information Full name Juan Esteban Curuchet Born (1965-02-04 ) 4 February 1965 (age 60) 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 1989–1991 Giessegi 1992 Rudy Project 1992–1995 Supermercados Toledo
Juan Esteban Curuchet (born 4 February 1965 inMar del Plata ) is anArgentine road bicycle racer andtrack cyclist .
Curuchet represented Argentina at theSummer Olympics in1984 ,1988 ,1996 ,2000 ,2004 , and2008 .[ 2]
He won the madison at the1999 Pan American Games with his older brother,Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet . He also won the madison at the2003 Pan American Games and2007 Pan American Games alongsideWalter Pérez and theCycling 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 theMen's Madison gold medal at the2008 Summer Olympics withWalter Pérez .[ 3]
In 2008, he received the goldGold Olimpia Award as the best athlete of the year from his country withWalter Pérez . In 2000 and 2010 he won the PlatinumKonex Award as the best cyclist of the last decade in Argentina.
1992 3rd Points race,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Valencia 2ndSix Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) 1994 1st Vuelta al Valle (ARG) 1995 2nd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Bogota 1st Mar del Plata, Six Days (ARG) (withGabriel Curuchet 1997 1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) 2nd Medellin, Six Days (COL) 3rd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Perth 1998 1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) 1st National Time Trial Championship, Argentina (ARG) 1stUCI Track World Cup , Cali, Madison (COL) (withGabriel Curuchet ) 1999 1stSix Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (withGabriel Curuchet ) 1st Frisco, Madison, Frisco, Texas, (USA) (withGabriel Curuchet ) 2ndUCI Track World Cup , Cali, Madison (COL) 1stUCI Track World Cup , Cali, Points race (COL) 2000 1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) 3rd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Manchester 1stSix Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (withGabriel Curuchet ) 2001 3rd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Antwerp 2nd Points race,UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2002 2nd Aguascalientes, Six Days (MEX) 3rd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships 3rd Points race,UCI Track Cycling World Championships 1st National Time Trial Championship, Santiago del Estero (ARG) 2003 3rd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships 3rd Vuelta de San Juan (ARG)2nd Stage 2, Vuelta de San Juan 1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)3rd Stage 4 Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado 2nd Stage 5b, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado 1st Stage 5a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado 1stUCI Track World Cup , Aguascalientes, Madison (MEX) (withWalter Pérez ) 2ndUCI Track World Cup , Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX) 1st Cape Town, Madison (RSA) (withWalter Pérez ) 1st Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) (withGiovanni Lombardi ) 1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (withWalter Pérez ) 1st Madison, National Track Championship, Cordoba (ARG) (withWalter Pérez ) 2004 1st Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships (withWalter Pérez ) 3rd Points race,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Melbourne 3rd Stage 5 Vuelta de San Juan (ARG) 1stUCI Track World Cup , Moscow, Madison (RUS) (withWalter Pérez ) 3rdUCI Track World Cup , Moscow, Points race (RUS) 1st Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX) 1st Sydney, Madison (AUS) (withWalter Pérez ) 2005 1st Points race,Pan American Championships , Mar del Plata 1st Madison,Pan American Championships , Mar del Plata (withWalter Pérez ) 1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (withWalter Pérez ) 3rd Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) 2nd Torino, Six Days, Torino (ITA) 2006 2nd Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)2nd Stage 6a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado 2nd Madison,UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Bordeaux 2007 2nd Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)2nd Stage 6b, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado 2nd Stage 6a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado 3rdUCI Track World Cup , Manchester, Points race (GBR) 2nd Clasica 1° de Mayo Argentina (ARG) 2nd Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) 1st Torino, Six Days (ITA) (withWalter Pérez ) 2nd Apertura Mercedes (ARG) 2008 1st Stage 1, Criterium Internacional, Mar del Plata (ARG) 2nd Stage 2, Criterium Internacional, Mar del Plata (ARG) 2009 Argentina National Time Trial Champion
1995 –96 : Italy (Silvio Martinello ,Marco Villa )1997 : Spain (Joan Llaneras ,Miguel Alzamora )1998 : Belgium (Etienne De Wilde ,Matthew Gilmore )1999 : Spain (Joan Llaneras ,Isaac Gálvez )2000 : Germany (Stefan Steinweg ,Erik Weispfennig )2001 : France (Robert Sassone ,Jérôme Neuville )2002 : France (Jérôme Neuville ,Franck Perque )2003 : Switzerland (Franco Marvulli ,Bruno Risi )2004 : Argentina (Walter Pérez ,Juan Curuchet )2005 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish ,Rob Hayles )2006 : Spain (Isaac Gálvez ,Joan Llaneras )2007 : Switzerland (Bruno Risi ,Franco Marvulli )2008 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish ,Bradley Wiggins )2009 : Denmark (Michael Mørkøv ,Alex Rasmussen )2010 –11 : Australia (Leigh Howard ,Cameron Meyer )2012 : Belgium (Kenny De Ketele ,Gijs Van Hoecke )2013 : France (Vivien Brisse ,Morgan Kneisky )2014 : Spain (David Muntaner ,Albert Torres )2015 : France (Bryan Coquard ,Morgan Kneisky )2016 : Great Britain (Mark Cavendish ,Bradley Wiggins )2017 : France (Morgan Kneisky ,Benjamin Thomas )2018 –19 : Germany (Roger Kluge ,Theo Reinhardt )2020 –21 : Denmark (Michael Mørkøv ,Lasse Norman Hansen )2022 : France (Donavan Grondin ,Benjamin Thomas )2023 : Netherlands (Jan-Willem van Schip ,Yoeri Havik )2024 : Germany (Roger Kluge ,Tim Torn Teutenberg )
Argentina National Time Trial Champion
