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Johann Tschopp

Swiss mountain biker

Field	Value
name	Johann Tschopp
image	Johann Tschopp.JPG
caption	Tschopp at the 2006 Deutschland Tour.
fullname	Johann Tschopp
birth_date
birth_place	Sierre, Switzerland
height	1.75 m
weight	62 kg
discipline	Road
Cyclo-cross
MTB
role	Rider
ridertype	Climbing specialist
proyears1	2004–2006
proteam1
proyears2	2007–2010
proteam2
proyears3	2011–2012
proteam3
proyears4	2013–2014
proteam4
majorwins	National Mountain Bike Marathon Championships (2005)
Giro d'Italia 1 stage
Tour of Utah (2012)

Cyclo-cross MTB Giro d'Italia 1 stage Tour of Utah (2012) Johann Tschopp (born 1 July 1982 in Sierre) is a Swiss professional mountain bike racer. He previously competed as a professional road bicycle racer between 2004 and 2014, competing with the , , and squads. He is noted as an especially good climber since he is lightweight (1.75 m, 60 kg) and his training environment is mainly mountainous. He has already a quite important record in cyclo-cross and mountain bike marathon.

Career

2012 season

In August 2012, Tschopp won the Tour of Utah's overall classification thanks to his victorious performance on the queen stage of the race, the fifth one. He got out of the bunch on the lower slopes of the last climb leading to the Snowbird ski resort, passed all the scattered breakaway riders and crossed the uphill finish with an advantage of 43 seconds on his nearest pursuer. This ride netted him the leader's jersey previously worn by rider Christian Vande Velde. Tschopp and his teammates managed to hold on to the general classification lead on the last trial, stage 6, which was another mountainous affair, and celebrated the victory.

2013 season

Tschopp left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined a new team from his native country, the team for the 2013 season. In the Tour of Oman, he took the sixth place in the general classification of a field that included the likes of Chris Froome, Alberto Contador and Joaquim Rodríguez, who finished ahead of him. In Paris–Nice, Tschopp won the mountains classification jersey thanks to his participation in numerous breakaways. He had a commanding lead at 64 points, 40 points more than his closest rival.

2014 season

In November 2014 Tschopp announced that he would retire from road racing to return to mountain biking in 2015.

Career achievements

Major results

;2003 :2nd National Mountain Biking Championships :2nd Sierre–Loye :3rd National Cyclo-Cross Championships ;2005 :2nd Overall Tour of Austria ;2007 : 5th Overall Tour de l'Ain ;2009 : 5th Overall Tropicale Amissa Bongo ::1st Stage 4 : 5th Overall Tour de Langkawi ;2010 : 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia

;2012 : 1st Overall [Tour of Utah](2012-tour-of-utah) ::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Overall Paris–Corrèze ;2013 : 1st [[File:Jersey polkadot.svg|20px]] Mountains classification [Paris–Nice](2013-paris-nice) : 2nd Trofeo Matteotti : 6th Overall [Tour of Oman](2013-tour-of-oman) : 9th Overall [Critérium International](2013-criterium-international) : 9th Overall [Tour of Norway](2013-tour-of-norway) ;2014 : 1st [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px]] Mountains classification [Tour de Romandie](2014-tour-de-romandie) : 8th Overall [Bayern-Rundfahrt](2014-bayern-rundfahrt) : 9th Overall [Tour of Oman](2014-tour-of-oman) ### Grand Tour general classification results timeline ::data[format=table] | Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey]] Giro d'Italia | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] Tour de France | [[File:Jersey gold.svg|20px|link=|alt=A gold jersey]] Vuelta a España | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | [41](2005-giro-d-italia) | [45](2006-giro-d-italia) | — | — | [126](2009-giro-d-italia) | [34](2010-giro-d-italia) | [15](2011-giro-d-italia) | [12](2012-giro-d-italia) | — | | | | | | — | — | [93](2007-tour-de-france) | [54](2008-tour-de-france) | — | — | — | — | — | | | | | | — | — | — | — | — | [81](2010-vuelta-a-espana) | [DNF](2011-vuelta-a-espana) | — | — | | | | | :: ::data[format=table title="Legend"] | — | DNF | |---|---| | Did not compete | | | Did not finish | | :: ## References ## References 1. Mignot, Alexandre. (9 August 2012). ["Tschopp et Rasch signent chez IAM Cycling"](http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-transfert-tschopp-et-rasch-signent-chez-iam-cycling-26732.html). *Swar-Agency*. 2. (20 November 2014). ["Tschopp switches from road to mountain bike in 2015"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tschopp-switches-from-road-to-mountain-bike-in-2015). *[[Future plc]]*. 3. Pat Malach. (13 August 2012). ["Tschopp takes the stage and overall lead in Snowbird"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-utah-2012/stage-5/results). *FuturePublishing Limited*. 4. Kyle Moore. (12 August 2012). ["Leipheimer solos to Tour of Utah stage six, Tschopp hangs on to the overall"](http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/12620/Leipheimer-solos-to-Tour-of-Utah-stage-six-Tschopp-hangs-on-to-the-overall.aspx). *Velo Nation LLC*. 5. (16 February 2013). ["2013 Tour of Oman results, stage 6"](http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/02/news/2013-tour-of-oman-results-stage-6_274874/2). *Competitor Group, Inc.*. 6. (9 March 2013). ["Paris-Nice 2013: Sylvain Chavanel wins the stage in Nice in the sprint"](http://www.velowire.com/article/703/en/paris-nice-2013--sylvain-chavanel-wins-the-stage-in-nice-in-the-sprint.html). *Thomas Vergouwen*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tschopp) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tschopp?action=history). ::

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