Johann Tschopp

Johann Tschopp (born 1 July 1982 in Sierre) is a Swiss professional mountain bike racer. He previously competed as a professional road bicycle racer between 2004 and 2014, competing with the , , and squads. Tschopp and his teammates managed to hold on to the general classification lead on the last trial, stage 6, which was another mountainous affair, and celebrated the victory.

2013 season Tschopp left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined a new team from his native country, the team for the 2013 season. In Paris–Nice, Tschopp won the mountains classification jersey thanks to his participation in numerous breakaways. He had a commanding lead at 64 points, 40 points more than his closest rival.

2014 season In November 2014 Tschopp announced that he would retire from road racing to return to mountain biking in 2015.

Career achievements Major results

2003 2nd National Mountain Biking Championships 2nd Sierre–Loye 3rd National Cyclo-Cross Championships 2005 2nd Overall Tour of Austria 2007 5th Overall Tour de l'Ain 2009 5th Overall Tropicale Amissa Bongo 1st Stage 4 5th Overall Tour de Langkawi 2010 1st Stage 20 Giro d'Italia Cima Coppi 2012 1st Overall Tour of Utah 1st Stage 5 3rd Overall Paris–Corrèze 2013

2nd Trofeo Matteotti 6th Overall Tour of Oman 9th Overall Critérium International 9th Overall Tour of Norway 2014

8th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt 9th Overall Tour of Oman

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish