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Christian Heule (born 2 April 1975 in Sankt Gallen) is a Swiss professional racing cyclist.
His sporting career began with VC Uznach. [1] He began his professional career in 1998 with the Ericsson Villiger cycling team. After two years he joined the Post Swiss Team and after a further two years he switched to Team Cologne. In 2003 he went to Macandina Kewa-wheel-VC Gippingen where he won a road stage of the Tour of Slovenia. Between 2005 and 2007, Heule rode for the German Stevens Racing team. In 2008, he became the leader of the Belgian Rendementhypo Cycling Team.
Heule is relatively unknown in his home country, but quite popular in the Campine in Belgium.
Thomas Frischknecht is a former Swiss mountain bike and cyclo-cross racer, often called Europe's Elder Statesman of mountain biking, because of his extraordinarily long career at the top level of the sport. A professional since 1990, he was on top of the Mountain Bike World Championship podium for the first time in 1996 and most recently in 2004.
Hanka Kupfernagel is a retired German professional cycle racer. During most of her career her primary focus was cyclo-cross racing, however, she has also won major road, track and mountain bike races. She has won seven consecutive medals at the UCI Women's Cyclo-cross World Championships, including three gold medals for 2000, 2001 and 2005; two silver medals in 2002 and 2003; and the bronze medal in 2004. Her major career victories also include a gold medal in the individual time trial competition at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships in Stuttgart and a silver medal in the road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Richard Marinus Anthonius Groenendaal is a Dutch former professional cyclo-cross cyclist. Groenendaal won the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2000 and the overall titles in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup 1997–1998, 2000–2001 and 2003–2004 and in the Cyclo-cross Superprestige in 1997–1998 and 2000–2001.
Mario De Clercq is a Belgian former racing cyclist. He specialized in cyclo-cross racing but also rode on the road and circuit races during his career, he raced as a professional between 1991 and 2004. The majority of his years as a professional were under the sponsorship of Palmans–Boghemans and its various co-sponsors.
Radomír Šimůnek Jr. is a Czech racing cyclist, who competes for the KwadrO-Stannah team. Born in Plzeň, Šimůnek participates mainly in cyclo-cross and has won a silver medal at the Junior and under-23 World Championships. His father, also named Radomír, was also a cyclo-cross racer.
Radomír Šimůnek Sr. was a Czech racing cyclist who mainly participated in cyclo-cross. Šimůnek's son, Radomír Šimůnek Jr. is also a cyclo-cross cyclist.
Steve Chainel is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Cyclo-cross Pro Team Cross Team Legendre. Chainel has previously competed for the Auber 93, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, FDJ, Ag2r–La Mondiale and Cofidis professional teams.
Florian Vogel is a Swiss professional racing cyclist. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Ben Berden is a Belgian professional racing cyclist specializing in cyclocross. Berden was caught for doping in January 2005, immediately admitted to it, and was ultimately banned from the sport for 15 months.
Simon Zahner is a Swiss former professional road and cyclo-cross cyclist.
David van der Poel is a Belgian-born Dutch road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Alpecin–Deceuninck Development Team.
Lars Forster is a Swiss cyclo-cross and cross-country mountain biker. He represented his nation in the men's elite race at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder, and in the men's cross-country race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He was on the start list for the 2018 Cross-country European Championship and he finished 1st.
Marcel Meisen is a German cyclo-cross and road cyclist, who rides for German amateur teams RC Zugvogel 09 Aachen and Stevens Racing Team. He has represented his nation in the men's elite event at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, on eleven occasions.
Marcel Wildhaber is a Swiss former professional cyclo-cross cyclist and cross-country mountain biker.
Kevin Kuhn is a Swiss multi-discipline cyclist, who competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team Tormans, and in road cycling for UCI Continental team EF Education–Nippo Development Team. He won the silver medal in the men's under-23 event at the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Dübendorf.
Beat Wabel is a Swiss former professional cyclist. He competed in the men's cross-country mountain biking event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Timon Rüegg is a Swiss road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Cyclo-cross Pro Team Cross Team Legendre.
Loris Rouiller is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Cyclo-cross team Cross Team Legendre. He primarily competes in cyclo-cross, but also on the road and in mountain biking.
Jiří Pospíšil is a Czech former professional cyclo-cross cyclist.
Nicole Koller is a Swiss professional racing cyclist.