Martín Vidaurre etched his name on cycling history not only for his home nation of Chile but also the entire continent of South America during a 2021 summer of cross-country racing that made him one of the hottest young properties in mountain biking.
By winning the gold medal in the U23 class at the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy, claiming his first U23 World Cup wins and, ultimately, the overall U23 World Cup overall title, Martín became Chile’s first winner of any mountain bike world title or world cup race and South America’s first-ever world champion in the cross-country olympic (XCO) distance. It’s an incredible achievement that’s now put the young native of Santiago on the fast-track to becoming one of the sport's next big stars.
