Swiss mountain bike legend Nino Schurter announced his retirement from racing last night. The Grisons champion officially confirmed that the Lenzerheide event, the third-to-last World Cup stop in 2025, will be his final professional race. The Swiss champion declared in an Instagram video that his career will end on his home dirt, skipping the last two events in North America.

"It's been an incredible ride - he said - but now the time has come. It's time to give my mind some rest and spend more time with the people who have always supported me".

Schurter has dominated this cycling discipline for fifteen years. "Crans-Montana will be my last World Championship, and Lenzerheide my last World Cup race. I couldn't have planned my retirement better, two major events on home soil, fantastic".

Lenzerheide has had enormous significance for Nino Schurter, not only as his home mountain and training ground, but also as the site of some of his most prestigious victories. In 2018, he won his 8th world championship title at home in Lenzerheide in one of his most thrilling races, and on the same track he won his 34th World Cup race, setting an extraordinary record and delighting the home crowd once again.
The UCI World Cup in Lenzerheide will follow a week after the 2025 World Championships in Crans-Montana where Nino will race in the Swiss jersey for the last time, the same jersey he wore at 5 Olympic Games, winning three Olympic medals.

Between 2009 and 2023, Schurter won ten cross-country world titles (2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022), secured nine overall World Cup victories, 36 World Cup races setting a unique record, a European title and a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal at the Olympics.

Nino Schurter is the best biker ever and his record confirms it, but the Swiss also has an extraordinary passion for road cycling and, multiple times in his interviews, he explained that almost 50 percent of his preparation is done training on road bikes.

His last prestigious victory came a year ago in Val di Sole: Nino realized that the results he was accustomed to were no longer coming and, perhaps because of this, he understood it was time to stop.

After retiring from racing, Nino Schurter will continue to be part of the Scott-SRAM MTB Racing Team and as an ambassador for Scott, SRAM, and Rockshox. He plans to focus on charity events and projects and pay more attention to long-distance and gravel races, including the 2026 Absa Cape Epic. One thing is certain, Nino Schurter will remain part of the mountain bike world for a long time to come.