Eighteen-year-old Swiss bicycle owner Muriel Furrer has died following a head harm sustained throughout the Ladies’s Junior highway race on the Street and Para-cycling World Championships.

Furrer’s demise was confirmed in a put up on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) web site, which acknowledged “the worldwide biking group loses a rider with a shiny future forward of her.”

{The teenager} had fallen throughout a 73.6km (45.7 mile) race on Thursday and was flown to Zurich College Hospital in a “very crucial situation”, the UCI mentioned.

Heavy rain in Zurich meant the lads’s and ladies’s junior highway occasions have been raced on slick roads on the nine-day Worlds assembly.

The game’s governing physique mentioned on the time of the harm: “At current, there are not any established details relating to how the accident occurred.

“Investigations by the competent authorities are ongoing. For that reason, no additional data could be given till additional discover.”

The assertion confirming Furrer’s demise on Friday added: “The UCI and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Street and Para-cycling Street World Championships supply their honest condolences to Muriel Furrer’s household, mates and her Federation Swiss Biking.

“Muriel Furrer’s household asks that their privateness be revered at this very painful time.”