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| Born | 15 June 2005 [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Velo Club Mendrisio | |||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road Track | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mats Poot (born 15 June 2005) is a Swiss track racing cyclist, who currently rides for club team Velo Club Mendrisio. He was a bronze medalist at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships.
In 2023, he finished third in the omnium at the Swiss track championships junior race. [2] In 2024, he won Swiss championship titles in the kierin and sprint. [3] competed for Switzerland at the 2023 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Cali, Colombia. [4] At the championships, be was part of the team pursuit squad with Victor Benareau, Luca Bühlmann, and Arthur Guillet, that secured a fourth place finish, defeated by the Canadian team in the bronze medal race. Poot also participated in the elimination race, finishing sixth. [5] In January 2025, he won the Swiss championship scratch race. [6]
Aged 19 years-old, he was a bronze medalist at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit in Belgium, in February 2025, alongside Noah Bögli, Alex Vogel and Pascal Tappeiner. [7] [8] The following year, he upgraded to a silver in the men's team pursuit at the 2026 UEC European Track Championships in Konya, Turkey, in February 2026, riding alongside Vogel, Bühlmann and Bögli, finishing runner-up to Denmark. [9]