Marc Hirschi

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Marc Hirschi
Marc Hirschi (2018-09-28) - UCI Road World Championships Innsbruck Men under 23 road race.jpg
Hirschi in 2018
Personal information
Full nameMarc Hirschi
Born (1998-08-24) 24 August 1998 (age 25)
Ittigen, Switzerland
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb)
Team information
Current team UAE Team Emirates
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type Puncheur
Amateur team
2017 BMC Development Team
Professional teams
2018 Development Team Sunweb
2019–2021 Team Sunweb [1] [2]
2021– UAE Team Emirates
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2020)
Combativity award (2020)

Stage races

Tour de Hongrie (2023)
Tour de Luxembourg (2023)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2023)
La Flèche Wallonne (2020)
Coppa Sabatini (2023)
La Drôme Classic (2024)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Innsbruck Under-23 road race
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Imola Elite road race
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Brno Under-23 road race
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Plumelec Junior time trial
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Herning Under-23 road race
Men's track cycling
Junior World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Aigle Madison

Marc Hirschi (born 24 August 1998) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [3]

Contents

Career

Hirschi began competing in cycling at the age of 11, inspired both by his father's passion for the sport and by the success of Fabian Cancellara, who hails from the same region as Hirschi. He initially competed in mountain biking, before also practicing road, track and cyclo-cross as a teenager. [4] He was a two-time national junior road race champion, winning in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, he was recruited by the BMC Development Team for his first season in the under-23 category, joining Development Team Sunweb the year after.

In September 2018 it was announced that he would join Team Sunweb from 2019 on a three-year contract, having been a member of Development Team Sunweb in 2018. [5] [6] In the same month, Hirschi won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. [7]

During his first year as a pro in 2019, he finished third in the Clásica de San Sebastián. In late August 2020, he entered the Tour de France, [8] during which he won a stage, three combative rider awards for his performances on individual stages and the overall Combativity award. One week after the end of the Tour, he took the bronze medal in the Men's road race at the Road World Championships in Imola. [9] Three days later Hirschi took the win at La Flèche Wallonne, pulling away from the rest of the lead group in the last 50 metres of the final climb of the Mur de Huy. He was the first Swiss rider to win the race since Ferdinand Kübler in 1952. [10] [11] Several days later, he also finished second to Primož Roglič at Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

In January 2021, Hirschi's contract with Team DSM was terminated by mutual consent, [12] and he signed a three-year contract with UAE Team Emirates. [3] That season, he only took one victory: stage two of the Tour de Luxembourg, going on to finish second overall. [13]

He opened the 2022 season in late March with a win at the Per sempre Alfredo race in Italy. In June, he won the Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau. The following month, he was selected for the Tour de France only two days before the start of race after Matteo Trentin was forced to withdraw after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. [14] Hirschi took two more wins in Italy towards the end of the season at the Giro della Toscana and the Veneto Classic.

Hirschi started 2023 in Australia, finishing eighth in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. [15] In February, he crashed on the first stage of the Volta ao Algarve, fracturing a radius. He returned to competition at the end of March. In May, he finished fourth at Eschborn–Frankfurt, before winning stage three of the Tour de Hongrie, taking the race lead in the process. [16] Hirschi was able to hold on to the race lead for the remainder of the race, marking his first stage race victory. In June, he became the Swiss National Road Race Champion for the first time. [17] In September, he won the Coppa Sabatini and the Tour de Luxembourg, both events on the UCI ProSeries calendar. [18]

In February 2024, he won the La Drôme Classic, his fourth race of the season, after a late attack. [19] In April, he placed second to Tom Pidcock at the Amstel Gold Race.

Major results

Road

2014
3rd Road race, National Junior Championships
2015
National Junior Championships
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race
3rd Time trial
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 1
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall GP Général Patton
5th Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
UEC European Junior Championships
5th Road race
7th Time trial
8th Overall Oberösterreich Juniorenrundfahrt
9th Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
2016
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Junior Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
1st Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
2nd Silver medal europe.svg Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships
3rd Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall GP Général Patton
1st Points classification
3rd Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
5th Trofeo Buffoni
6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
8th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
2017
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
1st Tour du Jura
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification, Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux
UEC European Under-23 Championships
3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Road race
8th Time trial
6th Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
2018
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Road race
5th Time trial
2nd Overall Tour Alsace
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall Grand Prix Priessnitz spa
1st Stage 2
National Under-23 Championships
3rd Road race
4th Time trial
4th Overall Tour de l'Ain
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
5th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
1st Stage 2
5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
5th Eschborn–Frankfurt Under-23
6th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
10th Overall Tour de Savoie Mont Blanc
10th Tour du Doubs
10th Tacx Pro Classic
2019
National Championships
2nd Time trial
4th Road race
3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
5th Overall BinckBank Tour
6th Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
10th E3 Binckbank Classic
2020 (2 pro wins)
1st La Flèche Wallonne
Tour de France
1st Stage 12
Held Jersey white.svg after Stages 2–3
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stages 9, 12, 18 & Overall
2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Road race, UCI World Championships
2021 (1)
2nd Time trial, National Championships
2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
1st Stage 2
2nd Veneto Classic
5th Brussels Cycling Classic
6th Road race, UEC European Championships
6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
10th Druivenkoers Overijse
2022 (4)
1st Giro della Toscana
1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
1st Per sempre Alfredo
1st Veneto Classic
3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
8th GP Miguel Induráin
9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
9th Amstel Gold Race
9th GP Industria & Artigianato
9th Coppa Sabatini
2023 (7)
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Hongrie
1st Stage 3
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Luxembourg
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Coppa Sabatini
1st Giro dell'Appennino
1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2nd Gran Piemonte
2nd Veneto Classic
2nd Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau
2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
2nd Coppa Agostoni
4th Eschborn–Frankfurt
4th Coppa Bernocchi
4th Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior
5th Giro del Veneto
5th Trofeo Matteotti
6th Overall Renewi Tour
6th Bretagne Classic
8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
10th Hamburg Cyclassics
10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
2024 (1)
1st La Drôme Classic
2nd Amstel Gold Race
3rd Milano–Torino
3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
5th Overall Tour de Hongrie
6th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
6th Figueira Champions Classic
9th Eschborn–Frankfurt

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 202020212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia ———
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 54 98 126
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España ———

Classics results timeline

Monument 201920202021202220232024
Milan–San Remo 48 ———— 112
Tour of Flanders ————— DNF
Paris–Roubaix —NH———
Liège–Bastogne–Liège 51 2 6 9 10
Giro di Lombardia DNF — 36 81 19
Classic 201920202021202220232024
Strade Bianche 73 DNF ——— 68
Milano–Torino 19 — 46 —— 3
E3 Saxo Bank Classic 10 NH——— DNF
Dwars door Vlaanderen 52 ——— 32
Brabantse Pijl 21 —— 26 19 29
Amstel Gold Race 54 NH 35 9 36 2
La Flèche Wallonne — 1 — 32 80 DNF
Eschborn–Frankfurt —NH—— 4 9
Clásica de San Sebastián 3 —— 13
Hamburg Cyclassics 21 NH— 10
Bretagne Classic ———— 6
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 62 Not held— 8
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 58 — 10
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

2016
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Reto Müller)
1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Madison, National Championships (with Reto Müller)
2017
3rd Team pursuit, National Championships

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