Swiss cyclist dead at 18 after sustaining fatal head injuries in crash at Road World Championships

The cycling assemblage is mourning the tragic decease of 18-year-old Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer aft she died Friday from a superior caput wounded pursuing a clang astatine the Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships successful Zurich conscionable a time earlier.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) released a connection confirming the quality of Furrer’s passing.

A representation of cyclist Muriel Furrer from Switzerland, who died aft a clang Thursday, is projected during a infinitesimal of soundlessness anterior to the medal ceremonial of the Men Under 23 Road Race of the Cycling and Para-cycling Road World Championships successful Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.  (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

"It is with large sadness that the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships successful Zurich (Switzerland) contiguous learned the tragic quality of the decease of young Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer," the connection began. 

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"With the passing of Muriel Furrer, the planetary cycling assemblage loses a rider with a agleam aboriginal up of her."

According to the UCI, Furrer "fell heavily" during Thursday’s race, and sustained a "serious caput injury." She was flown retired by chopper to a infirmary successful captious information earlier passing at Zurich University Hospital the pursuing day. 

Muriel Furrer from Switzerland, successful enactment during the UCI Cross Country Junior Women, XCO, Mountain Bike World Championship, Aug. 30, 2024, successful Pal Arinsal, Andorra.  (Maxime Schmid/Keystone via AP, File)

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"The UCI and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships connection their sincere condolences to Muriel Furrer's family, friends and her Federation Swiss Cycling."

Details of the clang were not instantly known. 

Riders are distanced by the battalion successful pouring rainfall during the Men's Junior Road Race of the Cycling and Para-cycling Road World Championships successful Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024.  (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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Furrer was competing successful the inferior women's lawsuit connected rain-slicked roads erstwhile she crashed successful a wood country southbound of Zurich. Police and the nationalist prosecutor's bureau are investigating the crash. 

Furrer’s decease marks the 2nd Swiss cyclist to person died aft crashing successful the past 2 seasons. Gino Mäder, 26, died successful June 2023 aft crashing down a ravine astatine the Tour de Suisse.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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