Karin Thürig

Karin Thürig is a Swiss professional racing cyclist and triathlete, born on 4 July 1972 in Rothenburg. A time trial specialist, she won the UCI Road World Championships women's time trial in 2004 and 2005, took silver in 2006 and bronze in 2002, and won bronze in the individual time trial at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008. On the track she took bronze in the individual pursuit at the 2005 World Championships in Los Angeles. In multisport she won Ironman races in France, Zürich and Lanzarote, was long distance duathlon world champion in 2001 and 2002, and finished second at the 2011 Ironman 70.3 World Championship.