Laura Stigger
Laura Stigger (born 25 September 2000) is an Austrian racing cyclist. She won the women's junior road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships and the junior Mountain Bike race (XCO) event at the 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. She also won the junior Mountain Bike race (XCO) event at the 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.
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| Born | 25 September 2000 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. 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. It was the same when she was younger still.
She competed in the cross-country race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.