Matthias Kyburz

Matthias Kyburz
Kyburz at JWOC 2010
Personal information
Born (1990-03-05) 5 March 1990
Sport
Sport Orienteering
Club
  • OLK Fricktal, IL Tyrving

Matthias Kyburz (born 5 March 1990) is a Swiss orienteering competitor,[1] junior world champion, European champion and world champion.

Career

He won the sprint distance at the 2012 World Orienteering Championships in Lausanne, ahead of Matthias Merz and Matthias Müller,[2] his first international victory. Kyburz has since been an important competitor on the world stage, an all round orienteer with the ability to win any of the three individual orienteering disciplines. This has allowed him to win the Orienteering World Cup on four occasions: 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2017. For ten years in a row (2008 to 2017) one of the two Swiss orienteers Matthias Kyburz or Daniel Hubmann has won the Orienteering World Cup.

Kyburz has won four World Orienteering Championships gold medals in four different disciplines: Sprint (2012, Lausanne), Sprint Relay (2014, Trentino), Relay (2015, Inverness) and Middle (2016, Strömstad). He has also won European Orienteering Championships gold medals in three different disciplines: Relay (2012, Falun), Sprint (2016, Jesenik) and Middle (2016, Jesenik).

Kyburz has won six World Games medals of which three were gold in Cali 2013 and one of each color at The World Games 2017.

Results

World Championship results

Year
Age Long Middle Sprint Relay Sprint
Relay
201121——20—N/A
20122219—1—N/A
201323—454N/A
2014245—521
201525640—14
2016267122—
201727DSQ1045—
2018288452—

World Cup victories

No. Date Venue Distance
116 June 2011Finland PorvooSprint
223 June 2012Switzerland St. GallenMiddle Distance
314 July 2012Switzerland LausanneSprint (WOC)
44 September 2012Sweden GothenburgKnock-Out Sprint
58 September 2012Finland VuokattiMiddle Distance (p)
67 January 2013New Zealand WellingtonSprint
71 June 2013Norway OsloSprint
87 June 2013Finland TurkuSprint
96 October 2013Switzerland BadenSprint
103 January 2015Australia TasmaniaSprint
1110 January 2015Australia TasmaniaLong Distance
124 June 2015Norway HaldenLong Distance
131 May 2016Poland WroclawLong Distance
1422 May 2016Czech Republic JeseníkSprint (EOC)
1527 May 2016Czech Republic JeseníkMiddle Distance (EOC)
1623 August 2016Sweden TanumMiddle Distance (EOC)
1715 October 2016Switzerland AarauLong Distance
1829 September 2017Switzerland GrindelwaldLong Distance
1930 September 2017Switzerland GrindelwaldMiddle Distance
  • (p) = pursuit

Personal life

His brother, Andreas Kyburz, is also an international orienteering competitor.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Matthias Kyburz". IOF Eventor. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "A Swiss triumph for the opening day". WOC 2012. 14 July 2012. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "Athlete profile: Andreas Kyburz". world-of-o. Retrieved 4 August 2018.


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