# Marc Hirschi

Marc Hirschi (born 24 August 1998) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Tudor Pro Cycling Team. Hirschi is known for his skills as a puncheur and one-day specialist, with wins in the hilly classics Clásica de San Sebastián and La Flèche Wallonne. He is also a Swiss national champion in the road race.

## Career
### Early career

Hirschi began competing in cycling at the age of 11, inspired both by his father's passion for the sport and by the success of Fabian Cancellara, who hails from the same region as Hirschi. He initially competed in mountain biking, before also practicing road, track and cyclo-cross as a teenager. He was a two-time national junior road race champion, winning in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, he was recruited by the BMC Development Team for his first season in the under-23 category, joining Development Team Sunweb the year after.
In September 2018 it was announced that he would join Team Sunweb from 2019 on a three-year contract, having been a member of Development Team Sunweb in 2018. In the same month, Hirschi won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.

### Team Sunweb (2019–2021)

During his first professional season in 2019, Hirschi finished third in the Clásica de San Sebastián.
In 2020, Hirschi had a breakout year: after starting the Tour de France for the first time, he won a stage, three combative rider awards for his performances on individual stages and the overall Combativity award. One week after the end of the Tour, he took the bronze medal in the Men's road race at the Road World Championships in Imola. Three days later Hirschi took the win at La Flèche Wallonne, pulling away from the rest of the lead group in the last 50 metres of the final climb of the Mur de Huy. He was the first Swiss rider to win the race since Ferdinand Kübler in 1952. Several days later, he also finished second to Primož Roglič at Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
In January 2021, Hirschi's contract with Team DSM was abruptly terminated, leaving Hirschi as a free agent. No comment was given by Hirschi or Team DSM, other than that the contract was ended with mutual consent. Days later, Hirschi signed a three-year contract with UAE Team Emirates.

### UAE Team Emirates (2021-2024)

In his first season with the team, Hirschi took only one victory: stage two of the Tour de Luxembourg, going on to finish second overall.
He opened the 2022 season in late March with a win at the Per sempre Alfredo race in Italy. In June, he won the Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau. The following month, he was selected for the Tour de France only two days before the start of race after Matteo Trentin was forced to withdraw after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. Hirschi took two more wins in Italy towards the end of the season at the Giro della Toscana and the Veneto Classic.
Hirschi started 2023 in Australia, finishing eighth in the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. In February, he crashed on the first stage of the Volta ao Algarve, fracturing a radius. He returned to competition at the end of March. In May, he finished fourth at Eschborn–Frankfurt, before winning stage three of the Tour de Hongrie, taking the race lead in the process. Hirschi was able to hold on to the race lead for the remainder of the race, marking his first stage race victory. In June, he became the Swiss National Road Race Champion for the first time. In September, he won the Coppa Sabatini and the Tour de Luxembourg, both events on the UCI ProSeries calendar.
In February 2024, he won the La Drôme Classic, his fourth race of the season, after a late attack. In April, he placed second to Tom Pidcock at the Amstel Gold Race. In August, Hirschi beat Julian Alaphillipe in a two-up sprint to win the Clásica de San Sebastián. This started a run of five-straight one-day victories for Hirschi, as he won 2024 Bretagne Classic Ouest-France, GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, Coppa Sabatini, and Memorial Marco Pantani. Hirschi ended the season with nine professional wins, his most in a single season.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2014

    3rd Road race, National Junior Championships

#### 2015

    National Junior Championships
       1st Road race
       3rd Time trial
    1st Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 1
    1st Overall GP Général Patton
    5th Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
    UEC European Junior Championships
       5th Road race
       7th Time trial
    8th Overall Oberösterreich Juniorenrundfahrt
    9th Road race, UCI World Junior Championships

#### 2016

    1st Road race, National Junior Championships
    1st Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
    1st Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
    2nd Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships
    3rd Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
       1st Stage 3
    3rd Overall GP Général Patton
       1st Points classification
    3rd Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
    5th Trofeo Buffoni
    6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
    8th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships

#### 2017

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
    1st Tour du Jura
    1st Mountains classification, Le Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux
    UEC European Under-23 Championships
       3rd Road race
       8th Time trial
    6th Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
    7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften

#### 2018

    1st Road race, UCI World Under-23 Championships
    UEC European Under-23 Championships
       1st Road race
       5th Time trial
    2nd Overall Tour Alsace
       1st Stage 3
    3rd Overall Grand Prix Priessnitz spa
       1st Stage 2
    National Under-23 Championships
       3rd Road race
       4th Time trial
    4th Overall Tour de l'Ain
       1st Young rider classification
    5th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
       1st Stage 2
    5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
    5th Eschborn–Frankfurt Under-23
    6th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
    8th Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    10th Overall Tour de Savoie Mont Blanc
    10th Tour du Doubs
    10th Tacx Pro Classic

#### 2019

    National Championships
       2nd Time trial
       4th Road race
    3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
    5th Overall BinckBank Tour
    6th Overall Deutschland Tour
       1st Young rider classification
    10th E3 Binckbank Classic

#### 2020 (2 pro wins)

    1st La Flèche Wallonne
    Tour de France
       1st Stage 12
       Held after Stages 2–3
       Combativity award Stages 9, 12, 18 & Overall
    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    3rd Road race, UCI World Championships

#### 2021 (1)

    2nd Time trial, National Championships
    2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Veneto Classic
    5th Brussels Cycling Classic
    6th Road race, UEC European Championships
    6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    10th Druivenkoers Overijse

#### 2022 (4)

    1st Giro della Toscana
    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    1st Per sempre Alfredo
    1st Veneto Classic
    3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
    8th GP Miguel Induráin
    9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    9th Amstel Gold Race
    9th GP Industria & Artigianato
    9th Coppa Sabatini

#### 2023 (7)

    1st Road race, National Championships
    1st Overall Tour de Hongrie
       1st Stage 3
    1st Overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Young rider classification
    1st Coppa Sabatini
    1st Giro dell'Appennino
    1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
    2nd Gran Piemonte
    2nd Veneto Classic
    2nd Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau
    2nd Memorial Marco Pantani
    2nd Coppa Agostoni
    4th Eschborn–Frankfurt
    4th Coppa Bernocchi
    4th Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior
    5th Giro del Veneto
    5th Trofeo Matteotti
    6th Overall Renewi Tour
    6th Bretagne Classic
    8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
    8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    10th Hamburg Cyclassics
    10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

#### 2024 (9)

    1st Overall Czech Tour
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st Bretagne Classic
    1st Clásica de San Sebastián
    1st Coppa Sabatini
    1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    1st La Drôme Classic
    1st Memorial Marco Pantani
    1st Coppa Agostoni
    2nd Amstel Gold Race
    3rd Milano–Torino
    3rd Circuit Franco-Belge
    4th Veneto Classic
    5th Overall Tour de Hongrie
    5th Road race, National Championships
    5th Giro del Veneto
    6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
    6th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
    6th Road race, UCI World Championships
    6th Figueira Champions Classic
    9th Eschborn–Frankfurt

#### 2025 (1)

    1st Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969
    4th La Drôme Classic
    5th Trofeo Calvià
    8th Trofeo Serra Tramuntana

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 54 | 98 | 126 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — |

#### Classics results timeline

| Monument | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Milan–San Remo | 48 | — | — | — | — | 112 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | 51 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 17 |
| Giro di Lombardia | DNF | — | 36 | 81 | 19 | |
| Classic | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Strade Bianche | 73 | DNF | — | — | — | 68 |
| Milano–Torino | 19 | — | 46 | — | — | 3 |
| E3 Saxo Bank Classic | 10 | NH | — | — | — | DNF |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | 52 | NH | — | — | — | 32 |
| Amstel Gold Race | 54 | NH | 35 | 9 | 36 | 2 |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | 1 | — | 32 | 80 | DNF |
| Eschborn–Frankfurt | — | NH | — | — | 4 | 9 |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | 3 | NH | — | — | 13 | 1 |
| Hamburg Cyclassics | 21 | NH | NH | — | 10 | — |
| Bretagne Classic | — | — | — | — | 6 | 1 |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | 62 | Not held | Not held | — | 8 | — |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | 58 | Not held | Not held | — | 10 | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Track
#### 2016

    1st Madison, UCI World Junior Championships (with Reto Müller)
    1st Madison, National Championships (with Reto Müller)

#### 2017

    3rd Team pursuit, National Championships