The biking group is mourning the tragic loss of life of 18-year-old Swiss bike owner Muriel Furrer after she died Friday from a severe head damage following a crash on the Street and Para-cycling Street World Championships in Zurich only a day earlier.
The Worldwide Biking Union (UCI) launched an announcement confirming the information of Furrer’s passing.
An image of bike owner Muriel Furrer from Switzerland, who died after a crash Thursday, is projected throughout a minute of silence previous to the medal ceremony of the Males Below 23 Street Race of the Biking and Para-cycling Street World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Picture/Peter Dejong)
“It’s with nice disappointment that the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Street and Para-cycling Street World Championships in Zurich (Switzerland) at the moment realized the tragic information of the loss of life of younger Swiss bike owner Muriel Furrer,” the assertion started.
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“With the passing of Muriel Furrer, the worldwide biking group loses a rider with a shiny future forward of her.”
In line with the UCI, Furrer “fell closely” throughout Thursday’s race, and sustained a “severe head damage.” She was flown out by helicopter to a hospital in important situation earlier than passing at Zurich College Hospital the next day.
Muriel Furrer from Switzerland, in motion through the UCI Cross Nation Junior Girls, XCO, Mountain Bike World Championship, Aug. 30, 2024, in Pal Arinsal, Andorra. (Maxime Schmid/Keystone by way of AP, File)
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“The UCI and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Street and Para-cycling Street World Championships provide their honest condolences to Muriel Furrer’s household, mates and her Federation Swiss Biking.”
Particulars of the crash weren’t instantly identified.
Riders are distanced by the pack in pouring rain through the Males’s Junior Street Race of the Biking and Para-cycling Street World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Picture/Peter Dejong)
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Furrer was competing within the junior ladies’s occasion on rain-slicked roads when she crashed in a forest space south of Zurich. Police and the general public prosecutor’s workplace are investigating the crash.
Furrer’s loss of life marks the second Swiss bike owner to have died after crashing previously two seasons. Gino Mäder, 26, died in June 2023 after crashing down a ravine on the Tour de Suisse.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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