Matthias Kyburz


Matthias Kyburz is a Swiss orienteering competitor, junior world champion, European champion and multiple world champion. On 16 April 2020, Kyburz attained the world record in quickest time reaching 50km on a treadmill, in a time of 2:56:35, breaking the record held by :de:Florian Neuschwander|Florian Neuschwander.

Career

He won the sprint distance at the 2012 World Orienteering Championships in Lausanne, ahead of Matthias Merz and Matthias Müller, his first international victory. Kyburz has since been an important competitor on the world stage, an all round orienteer with the ability to win any of the three individual orienteering disciplines. This has allowed him to win the Orienteering World Cup on five occasions: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2018. For eleven years in a row one of the two Swiss orienteers Matthias Kyburz or Daniel Hubmann has won the Orienteering World Cup.
Kyburz has won four World Orienteering Championships gold medals in four different disciplines: Sprint, Sprint Relay, Relay and Middle. He has also won European Orienteering Championships gold medals in three different disciplines: Relay, Sprint and Middle.
Kyburz has won six World Games medals of which three were gold in Cali 2013 and one of each color at The World Games 2017.

Results

World Championship results

World Cup victories

His brother, Andreas Kyburz, is also an international orienteering competitor.