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Johann Tschopp - Wikipedia

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Johann Tschopp
Personal information
Tschopp at the 2006 Deutschland Tour.
Full name	Johann Tschopp
Born	(1982-07-01) 1 July 1982 (age 42) Sierre, Switzerland
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road Cyclo-cross MTB
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Professional teams
2004–2006	Phonak
2007–2010	Bouygues Télécom
2011–2012	BMC Racing Team
2013–2014	IAM Cycling^[1]

Major wins
National Mountain Bike Marathon Championships (2005) Giro d'Italia 1 stage Tour of Utah (2012)

Johann Tschopp (born 1 July 1982 in Sierre) is a Swiss professional mountain bike racer.^[2] He previously competed as a professional road bicycle racer between 2004 and 2014, competing with the Phonak, Bouygues Télécom, BMC Racing Team and IAM Cycling squads.^[1] He is noted as an especially good climber since he is lightweight (1.75 m, 60 kg) and his training environment is mainly mountainous. He has already a quite important record in cyclo-cross and mountain bike marathon.

Career

2012 season

In August 2012, Tschopp won the Tour of Utah's overall classification thanks to his victorious performance on the queen stage of the race, the fifth one. He got out of the bunch on the lower slopes of the last climb leading to the Snowbird ski resort, passed all the scattered breakaway riders and crossed the uphill finish with an advantage of 43 seconds on his nearest pursuer. This ride netted him the leader's jersey previously worn by Garmin–Sharp rider Christian Vande Velde.^[3] Tschopp and his teammates managed to hold on to the general classification lead on the last trial, stage 6, which was another mountainous affair, and celebrated the victory.^[4]

2013 season

Tschopp left BMC Racing Team at the end of the 2012 season, and joined a new team from his native country, the IAM Cycling team for the 2013 season.^[1] In the Tour of Oman, he took the sixth place in the general classification of a field that included the likes of Chris Froome, Alberto Contador and Joaquim Rodríguez, who finished ahead of him.^[5] In Paris–Nice, Tschopp won the mountains classification jersey thanks to his participation in numerous breakaways. He had a commanding lead at 64 points, 40 points more than his closest rival.^[6]

2014 season

In November 2014 Tschopp announced that he would retire from road racing to return to mountain biking in 2015.^[2]

Career achievements

Major results

2003

2nd National Mountain Biking Championships

2nd Sierre–Loye

3rd National Cyclo-Cross Championships

2005

2nd Overall Tour of Austria

2007

5th Overall Tour de l'Ain

2009

5th Overall Tropicale Amissa Bongo

1st Stage 4

5th Overall Tour de Langkawi

2010

1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia

Cima Coppi

2012

1st Overall Tour of Utah

1st Stage 5

3rd Overall Paris–Corrèze

2013

1st

Mountains classification Paris–Nice

2nd Trofeo Matteotti

6th Overall Tour of Oman

9th Overall Critérium International

9th Overall Tour of Norway

2014

1st

Mountains classification Tour de Romandie

8th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt

9th Overall Tour of Oman

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro d'Italia	41	45	—	—	126	34	15	12	—
Tour de France	—	—	93	54	—	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	81	DNF	—	—

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Mignot, Alexandre (9 August 2012). "Tschopp et Rasch signent chez IAM Cycling" [Tschopp and Rasch sign with IAM Cycling]. Cyclism'Actu (in French). Swar-Agency. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tschopp switches from road to mountain bike in 2015". cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 20 November 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^ Pat Malach (13 August 2012). "Tschopp takes the stage and overall lead in Snowbird". Cycling News. FuturePublishing Limited. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
^ Kyle Moore (12 August 2012). "Leipheimer solos to Tour of Utah stage six, Tschopp hangs on to the overall". Velo Nation. Velo Nation LLC. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
^ "2013 Tour of Oman results, stage 6". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 16 February 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
^ "Paris-Nice 2013: Sylvain Chavanel wins the stage in Nice in the sprint". Velo Wire. Thomas Vergouwen. 9 March 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.

External links

Official website
Johann Tschopp at Cycling Archives (archived)
Johan Tschopp's profile on Cycling Base Archived 2013-10-30 at the Wayback Machine

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