Muriel Furrer has died from the accidents she sustained in her crash in the course of the junior girls’s highway on the UCI World Championships in Zurich. She was 18 years outdated.
The Swiss rider sustained a critical head damage within the crash, which is known to have taken place close to Küsnacht on the Worlds ending circuit. After the race, Furrer was airlifted by helicopter for remedy at Zurich University Hospital.
Furrer’s demise was introduced by the UCI and the Zurich Worlds organising committee on Friday afternoon in the course of the below 23 males’s highway race.
“It is with nice unhappiness that the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships in Zurich (Switzerland) at this time realized the tragic information of the demise of younger Swiss bicycle owner Muriel Furrer,” learn the assertion.
“With the passing of Muriel Furrer, the worldwide biking group loses a rider with a vibrant future forward of her.
“The 18-year-old rider fell closely yesterday, Thursday 26 September, in the course of the Junior Women highway race, and suffered a critical head damage earlier than being flown to hospital by helicopter in a really crucial situation. Muriel Furrer sadly handed away at this time at Zurich University Hospital.”
Although Furrer’s situation was described as crucial in a single day, the UCI confirmed on Friday morning that the day’s scheduled racing would proceed as deliberate, on the request of the rider’s household.
The UCI said earlier on Friday that there have been “nonetheless no established details relating to how the accident occurred,” including that “investigations by the competent authorities are ongoing.”
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