Full name Juan Esteban Curuchet 1992–1995 Supermercados Toledo Weight 75 kg Discipline Track Name Juan Curuchet Children Juan Ignacio Curuchet | 1989–1991 Giessegi Role Bicycler Siblings Gabriel Curuchet 1992 Rudy Project Height 1.75 m | |
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Born 4 February 1965 (age 59)
Mar del Plata, Argentina ( 1965-02-04 ) Olympic medals Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Madison Similar People Walter Perez, Gabriel Curuchet, Joan Llaneras, Toni Tauler, Alexei Markov | ||
Ser Olimpico Capitulo 09 Walter Pérez - Juan Curuchet
Juan Esteban Curuchet (born 4 February 1965 in Mar del Plata) is a road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina.
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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.