Matthias Kyburz (born 5 March 1990) is a Swiss orienteering competitor, junior world champion, European champion and multiple world champion. On 16 April 2020, Kyburz attained the world record in quickest time reaching 50km on a treadmill, in a time of 2:56:35, breaking the record held by Florian Neuschwander.

Career

He won the sprint distance at the 2012

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2 ...

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, ahead of

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and Matthias Müller, his first international victory. Kyburz has since been an important competitor on the world stage, an all round orienteer with the ability to win any of the three individual orienteering disciplines. This has allowed him to win the Orienteering World Cup on five occasions: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2018. For eleven years in a row (2008 to 2018) one of the two Swiss orienteers Matthias Kyburz or Daniel Hubmann has won the Orienteering World Cup. Kyburz has won six

gold medals in five different disciplines: Sprint (2012, Lausanne), Sprint Relay (2014, Trentino), Knock Out Sprint (2022, Vejle), Relay (2015, Inverness) and Middle (2016, Strömstad and 2021, Doksy). He has also won

European Orienteering Championships The European Orienteering Championships were first held in 1962. They have been held biennially since 2000. From 2020, the European Orienteering Championships will be held annually, with sprint events and forest events in alternate years. Format T ...

gold medals in five different disciplines: Relay (2012), Sprint Relay (2021), Sprint (2016 and 2018), Knock Out Sprint (2021), and Middle (2016 and 2018). Kyburz has won eight

World Games The World Games are an international multi-sport event comprising sports and sporting disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. They are usually held every four years, one year after a Summer Olympic Games, over the course of 11 d ...

medals of which three were gold in Cali 2013, one of each color at The World Games 2017, and a gold and a silver in

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Results

World Championship results

World Cup victories

* (p) = pursuit

Personal life

His brother, Andreas Kyburz, is also an international orienteering competitor.

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* 1990 births Living people Swiss orienteers Male orienteers Foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games gold medalists World Games silver medalists World Games bronze medalists Competitors at the 2013 World Games Competitors at the 2017 World Games World Games medalists in orienteering 20th-century Swiss people 21st-century Swiss people Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists {{Switzerland-orienteering-bio-stub