| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 August 1982 Switzerland |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road cycling |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2008-2009 | Bigla Cycling Team |
Bettina Kühn (born 7 August 1982) is a road cyclist from Switzerland. She represented her nation at the 2005 UCI Road World Championships. [1] She won silver at the 2009 Swiss National Road Race Championships. She rode for Bigla Cycling Team in 2008 and 2009. With the team she won the first stage team time trial of the 2009 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini.
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously and race to set finish point; and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively.
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in western, central and southern Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The sovereign state is a federal republic bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva.
The 2005 UCI Road World Championships took place in Madrid, Spain, between September 19 and September 25, 2005. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.
