Gino Mäder
- 4 January 1997 - 16 June 2023
- Place of birth: Flawil
- Country: Switzerland
Gino Mäder was born in Flawil in 1997 and began his professional cycling career in 2019 with the former World Tour team Dimension Data, which was renamed the NTT Pro Cycling Team a year later. In 2021, the Swiss rider joined the team Bahrain-Victorious to.
Gino Mäder: The greatest successes
Mäder celebrated his big breakthrough in 2021, when he not only won stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia but also took fifth place in the overall standings at the Vuelta a Espana and thus won the junior classification there. In the same year, he also celebrated a stage win in the Tour de Suisse, his home race. In 2022, he then finished second overall in the Tour de Romandie - just behind Aleksandr Vlasov from the team Bora-Hansgrohe. Mäder was a mountain specialist and also a successful cyclist at a young age.
The Swiss rider was repeatedly slowed down by illness and crashes. Two Covid-19 illnesses prevented him from competing in the Tour de France In addition, Mäder had to abandon the Tour of Italy in 2021 as a result of a crash, and he was also forced to end the Tour de Suisse early in 2022 due to gastrointestinal problems.
Mäder didn't just feel at home on the road, as he achieved his first successes as a track cyclist. In 2014, he won the silver medal at the European Junior Championships in the omnium, and a year later he also came second at the Junior World Championships in the team pursuit - one of his team-mates at the time was Stefan Bisseggerwho is now with the team EF Education-EasyPost is under contract.
On 15 June 2023, Mäder fell on the 5th stage of the Tour de Suisse on the descent from the Albula Pass on the way to the finish in La Punt and crashed into a ravine. He was subsequently resuscitated. Mäder succumbed to his injuries the next day.
