Matthijs Büchli
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Full name | Matthijs Büchli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Haarlem, Netherlands | 13 December 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | BEAT Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2017– | BEAT Cycling Club[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthijs Büchli (born 13 December 1992) is a Dutch road and track cyclist,[2] who currently rides for UCI Track Team BEAT Cycling Club.[3]
He became world champion in the keirin at the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In 2016, Büchli won the silver medal in the men's keirin at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,[4] despite experiencing a severe knee injury only five months before the Olympic Games.[5] Büchli was also a part of the team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the team sprint event.
Büchli has been a member of the commercial team of BEAT Cycling Club together with Theo Bos since 2017.
Major results
[edit]Source:[6]
- 2011
- National Championships
- 2nd Kilo
- 2nd Omnium
- 3rd Keirin
- 2013
- 1st Keirin, 2012–13 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Aguascalientes
- 3rd Keirin, UCI World Championships
- 2014
- 3rd Keirin, UCI World Championships
- 2016
- 2nd Keirin, Summer Olympics
- 2nd Team sprint, UCI World Championships
- 2017
- 2nd Team sprint, UCI World Championships
- 3rd Team sprint, UEC European Championships
- 2018
- 1st Team sprint, UCI World Championships
- National Championships
- 2019
- UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- 1st Team sprint
- 1st Keirin
- 2021
- 1st Team sprint, Olympic Games
Further information
[edit]- "Double delight for GB cyclists.(Sport)." Birmingham Mail (England). MGN Ltd. 2013. HighBeam Research. 30 April 2013
- "Kenny grabs keirin crown; UPDATE.(Sport)." Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland). MGN Ltd. 2013. 30 April 2013
- "Yates wins points race at track cycling worlds." Yakima Herald-Republic. Yakima Herald-Republic. 2013. 30 April 2013
References
[edit]- ^ "BEAT Cycling Club". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Matthijs Büchli". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ "BEAT Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- ^ "Matthijs Büchli".
- ^ Bosse, Christian (28 November 2018). "'Keep your confidence!' Matthijs Büchli – Olympic athletes interviewed Episode 2". Christian Bosse - Train Like An Olympian.
- ^ "Matthijs Büchli".
External links
[edit]- Matthijs Büchli at UCI
- Matthijs Büchli at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Matthijs Büchli at ProCyclingStats
- Matthijs Büchli at CycleBase
- Matthijs Büchli at Olympics.com
- Matthijs Büchli at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
Categories:
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Dutch male cyclists
- Dutch track cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Dutch cyclists at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in cycling
- Sportspeople from Haarlem
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- European Championships (multi-sport event) gold medalists
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from North Holland
- Olympic silver medalists in cycling
- 21st-century Dutch sportsmen
- Dutch cycling biography, 1990s birth stubs