Stephan Wenk was active as a duathlete for a long time, then concentrated more and more on mountain and trail races and won, among other things, the legendary K68 at the X-Trails Davos.
At just 20 years of age, Konstanze Klosterhalfen became the world's youngest athlete to break three records in the 800 m (under 2 mins), 1500 m (under 4 mins) and 5000 m (under 15 mins).
Natalia Gemperle has won twelve orienteering world championship medals for her native country of Russia. As of this year, she will be officially competing for Switzerland as a Swiss national.
Alongside Nino Schurter and Mathias Flückiger, Switzerland has another talented rider, Filippo Colombo from Ticino, who is consistently in the top positions.
Jonathan Schmid is not only currently the best mountain runner in Switzerland, but also the organiser of the Masters Trail Running and Mountain Running Championships in Adelboden.
Nino Schurter has achieved everything you can dream of in the biking sport. In the autumn of his career, he became world champion for the 10th time last year.
The Swiss Olympic trainer for competitive sports explains how to train for races like L'Étape Switzerland or bike marathons, the benefits of polarised training and the maximum duration of an interval.
The 21-year-old from Zurich is the U23 cross-country skiing world champion and a member of the Triathlon National Team. Her goal: To participate in the Olympic Games both in the winter of 2026 and in the summer of 2028.
After his victory at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, experts were amazed. Dominic Lobalu, who lives in Switzerland as a refugee, left the world's best in their field standing during the 3000 m with a time of 7:29.48.
Rea Iseli secured the title in the Up and Down race at the World Mountain Running Championships together with Judith Wyder and Maude Mathys.
At the beginning of October, Mike Schifferle completed his 99th Ironman race at the Ironman Hawaii and thus achieved his athletic life goal.
It finally worked out. Melanie Maurer was deservedly named the Long Distance Duathlon World Champion in Zofingen.
For the first time in her career, the former U23 world champion was able to win a cross-country race.
Swiss Athletics is experiencing a real high. Week after week, top performances are being achieved and records are being broken. We talked to the head running coach at Swiss Athletics.
It worked on the second attempt. Matthias Schmidig became the superior 100 km Swiss Champion at the Biel Running Days.
