Juan Curuchet

Juan Curuchet
Personal information
Full name	Juan Esteban Curuchet
Born	4 February 1965 (age 59); Mar del Plata, Argentina
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
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
World Championships
Pan American Games
Pan American Championships

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.

Major results

1992: 3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Valencia; 2nd Six 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) (with Gabriel 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); 1st UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Madison (COL) (with Gabriel Curuchet)

1999: 1st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet); 1st Frisco, Madison, Frisco, Texas, (USA) (with Gabriel Curuchet); 2nd UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Madison (COL); 1st UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Points race (COL)

2000: 1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG); 3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Manchester; 1st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel 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

1st UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes, Madison (MEX) (with Walter Pérez)

2nd UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX)

1st Cape Town, Madison (RSA) (with Walter Pérez)

1st Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) (with Giovanni Lombardi)

1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez)

1st Madison, National Track Championship, Cordoba (ARG) (with Walter Pérez)

2004: 1st Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (with Walter Pérez); 3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Melbourne; 3rd Stage 5 Vuelta de San Juan (ARG); 1st UCI Track World Cup, Moscow, Madison (RUS) (with Walter Pérez); 3rd UCI Track World Cup, Moscow, Points race (RUS); 1st Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX); 1st Sydney, Madison (AUS) (with Walter Pérez)

2005: 1st Points race, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata; 1st Madison, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata (with Walter Pérez); 1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter 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

3rd UCI 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) (with Walter 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

References

^ ^a ^b "Athlete Biography - CURUCHET Juan Esteban". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 23 August 2008.
^ "Juan Curuchete Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
^ "Histórico: Curuchet, con 43 años y seis Juegos, se quedó con el oro en Beijing". Infobae.com. 19 August 2008. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2008.

External links

Juan Curuchet at Cycling Archives (archived)

Awards
Preceded by Ángel Cabrera	*Olimpia de Oro* 2008 (alongside Walter Pérez)	Succeeded by Juan Martín del Potro

[Beijing-1] "Athlete Biography - CURUCHET Juan Esteban". Beijing Olympics official website. Archived from the original on 23 August 2008.

[SportsRef-2] "Juan Curuchete Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

[3] "Histórico: Curuchet, con 43 años y seis Juegos, se quedó con el oro en Beijing". Infobae.com. 19 August 2008. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2008.

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