Marc Hirschi (born 24 August 1998) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.[3] Hirschi is known for his skills as a puncheur and one-day specialist, with wins in the hilly classics Clásica de San Sebastián and La Flèche Wallonne. He is also a Swiss national champion in the road race.
_-_UCI_Road_World_Championships_Innsbruck_Men_under_23_road_race.jpg) Hirschi in 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Marc Hirschi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 August 1998 Ittigen, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | UAE Team Emirates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Puncheur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | BMC Development Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | Development Team Sunweb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | Team Sunweb[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021– | UAE Team Emirates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
editEarly Career
editHirschi 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]
Team Sunweb (2019-2021)
editDuring his first professional season in 2019, Hirschi finished third in the Clásica de San Sebastián.
In 2020, Hirschi had a breakout year: after starting the Tour de France for the first time,[8] he won a stage, three combative rider awards for his performances on individual stages and the overall Combativity award.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11][12] Several days later, he also finished second to Primož Roglič at Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
In January 2021, Hirschi's contract with Team DSM was abruptly terminated, leaving Hirschi as a free agent.[13] No comment was given by Hirschi or Team DSM, other than that the contract was ended with mutual consent.[14] Days later, Hirschi signed a three-year contract with UAE Team Emirates.[3]
UAE Team Emirates (2021-present)
editIn his first season with the team, Hirschi took only one victory: stage two of the Tour de Luxembourg, going on to finish second overall.[15]
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.[16] 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.[17] 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.[18] 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.[19] In September, he won the Coppa Sabatini and the Tour de Luxembourg, both events on the UCI ProSeries calendar.[20]
In February 2024, he won the La Drôme Classic, his fourth race of the season, after a late attack.[21] In April, he placed second to Tom Pidcock at the Amstel Gold Race. In August, Hirschi beat Julian Alaphillipe in a two-up sprint to win the Clásica de San Sebastián.[22] This started a run of five-straight one-day victories for Hirschi, as he won 2024 Bretagne Classic Ouest-France, GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, Coppa Sabatini, and Memorial Marco Pantani.[23] Hirschi ended the season with nine professional wins, his most in a single season.
Major results
editRoad
edit- 2014
- 3rd Road race, National Junior Championships
- 2015
- National Junior Championships
- 1st
Road race - 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 1st 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 Road race, National Junior Championships
- 1st Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
- 1st Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
- 2nd
Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships - 3rd Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 1st Stage 3
- 3rd Overall GP Général Patton
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
- 5th Trofeo Buffoni
- 6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
- 8th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
- 2017
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
- 1st Tour du Jura
- 1st
Mountains classification, Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux - UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 3rd
Road race - 8th Time trial
- 3rd
- 6th Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
- 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 2018
- 1st
Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships - UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st
Road race - 5th Time trial
- 1st
- 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 Young rider classification
- 1st
- 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 Young rider classification
- 1st
- 10th E3 Binckbank Classic
- 2020 (2 pro wins)
- 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 12
- Held after Stages 2–3
Combativity award Stages 9, 12, 18 & Overall
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd
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 Road race, National Championships
- 1st Overall Tour de Hongrie
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 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 (9)
- 1st Overall Czech Tour
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1st Bretagne Classic
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st Coppa Sabatini
- 1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 1st La Drôme Classic
- 1st Memorial Marco Pantani
- 1st Coppa Agostoni
- 2nd Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd Milano–Torino
- 3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
- 4th Veneto Classic
- 5th Overall Tour de Hongrie
- 5th Road race, National Championships
- 5th Giro del Veneto
- 6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 6th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 6th Road race, UCI World Championships
- 6th Figueira Champions Classic
- 9th Eschborn–Frankfurt
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | — |
 Tour de France
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54 | 98 | 126 |
 Vuelta a España
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— | — | — |
Classics results timeline
edit| Monument | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | 48 | — | — | — | — | 112 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | 51 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 17 |
| Giro di Lombardia | DNF | — | 36 | 81 | 19 | |
| Classic | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Strade Bianche | 73 | DNF | — | — | — | 68 |
| Milano–Torino | 19 | — | 46 | — | — | 3 |
| E3 Saxo Bank Classic | 10 | NH | — | — | — | DNF |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 52 | — | — | — | 32 | |
| Amstel Gold Race | 54 | 35 | 9 | 36 | 2 | |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | 1 | — | 32 | 80 | DNF |
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | — | NH | — | — | 4 | 9 |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | 3 | — | — | 13 | 1 | |
| Hamburg Cyclassics | 21 | NH | — | 10 | — | |
| Bretagne Classic | — | — | — | — | 6 | 1 |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | 62 | Not held | — | 8 | — | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | 58 | — | 10 | — | ||
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
edit- 2016
- 1st Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Reto Müller)
- 1st Madison, National Championships (with Reto Müller)
- 2017
- 3rd Team pursuit, National Championships
References
edit- ^ "Team Sunweb". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ a b Fletcher, Patrick (9 January 2021). "Marc Hirschi joins UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Ryan Barry (31 August 2020). "Marc Hirschi introduces himself at Tour de France". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
- ^ "Il Team Sunweb ingaggia Marc Hirschi" [Team Sunweb hires Marc Hirschi]. Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). 12 September 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ MacLeary, John (28 September 2018). "Marc Hirschi becomes first Swiss to win under-23 men's road race at UCI Road World Championships after late attack". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "107th Tour de France: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ "Marc Hirschi named 'most combative rider' of Tour de France". Velo. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ Farrand, Stephen (27 September 2020). "Hirschi continues to impress with World Championships bronze". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Marc Hirschi wins 2020 Flèche Wallonne from late attack". VeloNews. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ Owen, Tom (30 September 2020). "Rising star Marc Hirschi continues excellent form with La Fleche Wallone victory". Eurosport. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Marc Hirschi and Team DSM part ways". Velo. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ Ryan, Barry (5 January 2021). "Tour de France stage winner Marc Hirschi leaves Team DSM". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ "Tour de Luxembourg: Hirschi takes over race lead with stage 2 victory". CyclingNews. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ "Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates) positif au Covid, Marc Hirschi le remplace". L'Équipe. 29 June 2022.
- ^ Knöfler, Lukas (29 January 2023). "Marius Mayrhofer sprints to victory at Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
- ^ "STAGE 3 : KAPOSVÁR - PÉCS" (PDF). Tour de Hongrie. Tour de Hongrie. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ^ "Cyclisme: Marc Hirschi est champion de Suisse". lematin.ch. 25 June 2023.
- ^ "Hirschi wins the Tour de Luxembourg as Johannessen solos to final stage win". CyclingNews. 24 September 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (25 February 2024). "Late-race attack nets Marc Hirschi the victory at Faun Drome Classic". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Marc Hirschi Foils Julian Alaphilippe At San Sebastian Classic". FloBikes. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ Farrand, Stephen (14 September 2024). "Marc Hirschi continues winning streak with victory at Memorial Marco Pantani". CyclingNews. Archived from the original on 21 September 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
External links
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- Marc Hirschi at ProCyclingStats
