Juan Esteban Curuchet (born 4 February 1965 in Mar del Plata) is a road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina. Curuchet represented Argentina at the Summer Olympics in 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984, 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988, 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000, 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004, and 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008. He won the madison at the 1999 Pan American Games with his older brother, Gabriel Curuchet, Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet. He also won the madison at the 2003 Pan American Games and 2007 Pan American Games alongside Walter Pérez (cyclist), 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 Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Madison, Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez. In 2008, he received the gold Olimpia Award, Gold Olimpia Award as the best athlete of the year from his country with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez. In 2000 and 2010 he won the Platinum Konex Award as the best cyclist of the last decade in Argentina.

Major results

;1992 :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Valencia :2nd Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) ;1994 :1st Vuelta al Valle (ARG) ;1995 :2nd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, 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, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Perth ;1998 :1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) :1st National Time Trial Championship, Argentina (ARG) :1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, 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 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Madison (COL) :1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Points race (COL) ;2000 :1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG) :3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Manchester :1st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet) ;2001 :3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Antwerp :2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships ;2002 :2nd Aguascalientes, Six Days (MEX) :3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :1st National Time Trial Championship, Santiago del Estero (ARG) ;2003 :3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :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 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes, Madison (MEX) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) :2nd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX) :1st Cape Town, Madison (RSA) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) :1st Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) (with Giovanni Lombardi (cyclist), Giovanni Lombardi) :1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) :1st Madison, National Track Championship, Cordoba (ARG) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) ;2004 :1st Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) :3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Melbourne :3rd Stage 5 Vuelta de San Juan (ARG) :1st UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, Moscow, Madison (RUS) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) :3rd UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, Moscow, Points race (RUS) :1st Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX) :1st Sydney, Madison (AUS) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) ;2005 :1st Points race, 2005 Pan American Cycling Championships, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata :1st Madison, 2005 Pan American Cycling Championships, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), Walter Pérez) :1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez (cyclist), 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, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, 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 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, UCI Track World Cup, 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 (cyclist), 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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