The biking neighborhood is mourning the tragic dying of 18-year-old Swiss bike owner Muriel Furrer after she died Friday from a severe head harm following a crash on the Highway and Para-cycling Highway 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 Highway Race of the Biking and Para-cycling Highway World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photograph/Peter Dejong)
“It’s with nice disappointment that the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Highway and Para-cycling Highway World Championships in Zurich (Switzerland) right this moment discovered the tragic information of the dying of younger Swiss bike owner Muriel Furrer,” the assertion started.
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“With the passing of Muriel Furrer, the worldwide biking neighborhood loses a rider with a brilliant future forward of her.”
In response to the UCI, Furrer “fell closely” throughout Thursday’s race, and sustained a “severe head harm.” She was flown out by helicopter to a hospital in crucial situation earlier than passing at Zurich College Hospital the next day.
Muriel Furrer from Switzerland, in motion through the UCI Cross Nation Junior Ladies, 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 Highway and Para-cycling Highway World Championships provide their honest condolences to Muriel Furrer’s household, buddies 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 Highway Race of the Biking and Para-cycling Highway World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photograph/Peter Dejong)
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Furrer was competing within the junior girls’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 dying 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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