Juan Esteban Curuchet (born 4 February 1965 in

Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is a city on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the seat of General Pueyrredón district. Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is a s ...

) is a

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and

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from

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. Curuchet represented Argentina at the

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in 1984,

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, 1996,

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, 2004, and 2008. He won the madison at the 1999 Pan American Games with his older brother, Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet. He also won the madison at the

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and

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alongside Walter Pérez and the Cycling World Championships in 2004 (Men's Madison). Curuchet holds an Argentine record of participating in six non-consecutive Olympic games. He closed his Olympic career at age 43, by winning the Men's Madison gold medal at the

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with Walter Pérez. In 2008, he received the gold Gold Olimpia Award as the best athlete of the year from his country with Walter Pérez. In 2000 and 2010 he won the Platinum

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as the best cyclist of the last decade in Argentina.

Major results

;1992 :3rd Points race,

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, Valencia :2nd Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) ;1994 :1st Vuelta al Valle (ARG) ;1995 :2nd Madison,

, Bogota :1st Mar del Plata, Six Days (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet ;1997 :1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) :2nd Medellin, Six Days (COL) :3rd Madison,

, Perth ;1998 :1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) :1st National Time Trial Championship, Argentina (ARG) :1st

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, Cali, Madison (COL) (with Gabriel Curuchet) ;1999 :1st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet) :1st Frisco, Madison, Frisco, Texas, (USA) (with Gabriel Curuchet) :2nd

, Cali, Madison (COL) :1st

, Cali, Points race (COL) ;2000 :1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) :3rd Madison,

, Manchester :1st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet) ;2001 :3rd Madison,

, Antwerp :2nd Points race,

;2002 :2nd Aguascalientes, Six Days (MEX) :3rd Madison,

:3rd Points race,

:1st National Time Trial Championship, Santiago del Estero (ARG) ;2003 :3rd Madison,

:3rd Vuelta de San Juan (ARG) ::2nd Stage 2, Vuelta de San Juan :1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) ::3rd Stage 4 Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado ::2nd Stage 5b, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado ::1st Stage 5a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado :1st

, Aguascalientes, Madison (MEX) (with Walter Pérez) :2nd

, Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX) :1st Cape Town, Madison (RSA) (with Walter Pérez) :1st Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) (with Giovanni Lombardi) :1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez) :1st Madison, National Track Championship, Cordoba (ARG) (with Walter Pérez) ;2004 :1st Madison,

(with Walter Pérez) :3rd Points race,

, Melbourne :3rd Stage 5 Vuelta de San Juan (ARG) :1st

, Moscow, Madison (RUS) (with Walter Pérez) :3rd

, Moscow, Points race (RUS) :1st Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX) :1st Sydney, Madison (AUS) (with Walter Pérez) ;2005 :1st Points race, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata :1st Madison, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata (with Walter Pérez) :1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez) :3rd Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) :2nd Torino, Six Days, Torino (ITA) ;2006 :2nd Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) ::2nd Stage 6a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado :2nd Madison,

, Bordeaux ;2007 :2nd Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) ::2nd Stage 6b, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado ::2nd Stage 6a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado :3rd

, Manchester, Points race (GBR) :2nd Clasica 1° de Mayo Argentina (ARG) :2nd Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) :1st Torino, Six Days (ITA) (with Walter Pérez) :2nd Apertura Mercedes (ARG) ;2008 :1st Stage 1, Criterium Internacional, Mar del Plata (ARG) :2nd Stage 2, Criterium Internacional, Mar del Plata (ARG) ;2009 : National Time Trial Champion

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