Karin Thürig (born 4 July 1972 in

Rothenburg Rothenburg is a German language placename and refers to: Places *Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany *Rothenburg, Oberlausitz, Saxony, Germany *Rothenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany *Rothenburg, Switzerland, Canton of Lucerne, S ...

) is a

Swiss Swiss may refer to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland * Swiss people Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina *Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses *Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports *Swiss Internation ...

professional

racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ...

and

triathlete A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the d ...

. She is the winner of the 2004 and 2005

UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial The UCI Road World Championships - Women's time trial is the annual world championship for road bicycle racing in the discipline of time trial, organised by the world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Inter ...

. In 2011, she took second at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship.

Palmarès

Cycling

; 2001 : 2nd, Individual time trial, National Road Championships ; 2002 : 3rd, Individual time trial, World Road Championships : 1st, Individual time trial, National Road Championships ; 2003 : 2003 Track World Cup :: 1st, Pursuit, Cape Town ; 2004 : 2004 Track World Cup :: 1st, Pursuit, Moscow :: 2nd, Pursuit, Sydney : 1st, Individual time trial, National Road Championships : 1st, Stage 1, Thüringen-Rundfahrt der Frauen : 3rd, Individual time trial,

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

, Athens : 1st Chrono Champenois-Trophée Européen : 1st, Individual time trial, World Road Championships ; 2005 : 2004–2005 Track World Cup :: 3rd, Pursuit, Manchester : 3rd, Pursuit, Track World Championships, Los Angeles : 1st, Souvenir Magali Pache :

Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin The Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the longest running UCI event on the women's elite cycle racing calendar. It had been held annually in the Aude Aude (; ) is a Departments of France, department in Southern France, located in the Occi ...

:: 1st, Stage 5 :: 1st, Stage 8 : 1st, Individual time trial, National Road Championships : 1st, Individual time trial, World Road Championships ; 2006 : 1st, Individual time trial, National Road Championships : 1st, L'Heure D'Or Féminine / The Ladies Golden Hour (with

Nicole Cooke Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE (born 13 April 1983) is a Welsh former professional road bicycle racer and Commonwealth, Olympic and World road race champion. At Beijing in 2008 she became the first British woman to win a Gold Olympic medal in an ...

Priska Doppmann Priska Doppmann (born 10 May 1971) is a Swiss people, Swiss road racing cyclist, born in Cham, Switzerland, Cham. She was the Swiss National Road Race Championships, Swiss National Road Race champion in 1999. She finished 7th in the Cycling at th ...

Christiane Soeder Christiane Soeder (born 15 January 1975 in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German-born Austrian road racing cyclist and former duathlete who now lives in Vienna. She won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2004, 2006 and 200 ...

and

Joanne Kiesanowski Joanne Marie Kiesanowski (born 24 May 1979) is a New Zealand cyclist, who won the silver medal in the women's scratch race at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She is married to Jeff Pierce, a former professional cyclist. The 2012 Summer Olymp ...

) : 1st, Chrono Champenois-Trophée Européen : 2nd, Individual time trial, World Road Championships ; 2007 : 3rd, Souvenir Magali Pache :

Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale Various professional women's Road bicycle racing, cycle stage races across France have been held as an equivalent to the Tour de France for women, with the first of these races staged as a one off in 1955. From 1984, a women's Tour de France was s ...

:: 1st, Stage 1 :: 2nd, Stage 3b : 1st, Individual time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd, Open de Suède Vargarda : 1st, Memorial Davide Fardelli - Cronometro Individuale : 1st,

2007 Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen The 2007 Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen was the 9th running of the Chrono Champenois, Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen, a women's individual time trial Road bicycle racing, bicycle race. It was held on 16 September 2007 over a dista ...

: 2007–2008 Track World Cup :: 3rd, Pursuit, Sydney ; 2008 : 3rd, Individual Time Trial,

, Beijing : 1st, 2008 Chrono Champenois – Trophée Européen

Multisport

;

Triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, Cycle sport, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the t ...

: 1st, Ironman France 2002 : 1st, Ironman Zürich 2005 : 1st, Ironman Lanzarote 2006 : 1st, Ironman 70.3 Monaco 2006 : 2nd, Ironman 70.3 Switzerland 2007 : 1st, Ironman Zürich 2010 : 1st, Ironman 70.3 Austria 2011 : 1st, Ironman 70.3 European Championship 2011 : 2nd, Ironman 70.3 World Championship 2011 ;

Duathlon Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format similar to triathlons. The International Triathlon Union governs the sport internationally. Distance and format ...

: World champion, long distance: 2001, 2002 : Swiss champion: 2001, 2002, 2003 : Overall World Cup champion: 2001, 2002

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thurig, Karen 1972 births Living people People from Hochdorf District Swiss female cyclists Swiss female triathletes Swiss track cyclists Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Olympic cyclists of Switzerland UCI Road World Champions (women) Duathletes Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from the canton of Lucerne