Argentine cyclist

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, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008.

He won the madison at the 1999 Pan American Games with his older brother, Gabriel Ovidio Curuchet. He also won the madison at the 2003 Pan American Games and 2007 Pan American Games alongside 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 Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Walter Pérez.

In 2008, he received the gold Gold Olimpia Award as the best athlete of the year from his country with Walter Pérez. In 2000 and 2010 he won the Platinum Konex Award as the best cyclist of the last decade in Argentina.

Major results

19923rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Valencia2nd Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG)19941st Vuelta al Valle (ARG)19952nd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Bogota1st Mar del Plata, Six Days (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet19971st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)2nd Medellin, Six Days (COL)3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Perth19981st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)1st National Time Trial Championship, Argentina (ARG)1st UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Madison (COL) (with Gabriel Curuchet)19991st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet)1st Frisco, Madison, Frisco, Texas, (USA) (with Gabriel Curuchet)2nd UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Madison (COL)1st UCI Track World Cup, Cali, Points race (COL)20001st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Manchester1st Six Days of Buenos Aires (ARG) (with Gabriel Curuchet)20013rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Antwerp2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships20022nd Aguascalientes, Six Days (MEX)3rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships1st National Time Trial Championship, Santiago del Estero (ARG)20033rd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships3rd Vuelta de San Juan (ARG)2nd Stage 2, Vuelta de San Juan1st Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)3rd Stage 4 Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado2nd Stage 5b, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado1st Stage 5a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado1st UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes, Madison (MEX) (with Walter Pérez)2nd UCI Track World Cup, Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX)1st Cape Town, Madison (RSA) (with Walter Pérez)1st Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA) (with Giovanni Lombardi)1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez)1st Madison, National Track Championship, Cordoba (ARG) (with Walter Pérez)20041st Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships (with Walter Pérez)3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Melbourne3rd Stage 5 Vuelta de San Juan (ARG)1st UCI Track World Cup, Moscow, Madison (RUS) (with Walter Pérez)3rd UCI Track World Cup, Moscow, Points race (RUS)1st Aguascalientes, Points race (MEX)1st Sydney, Madison (AUS) (with Walter Pérez)20051st Points race, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata1st Madison, Pan American Championships, Mar del Plata (with Walter Pérez)1st Tre Giorni Citta di Pordenone (ITA) (with Walter Pérez)3rd Fiorenzuola d' Arda, Six Days (ITA)2nd Torino, Six Days, Torino (ITA)20062nd Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)2nd Stage 6a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado2nd Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Bordeaux20072nd Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado (ARG)2nd Stage 6b, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado2nd Stage 6a, Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado3rd 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)2nd Apertura Mercedes (ARG)20081st Stage 1, Criterium Internacional, Mar del Plata (ARG)2nd Stage 2, Criterium Internacional, Mar del Plata (ARG)2009:Argentina National Time Trial Champion

References

External links

• Juan Curuchet at Cycling Archives