Team

Olympic Medals

World Champion Titles

World Cup Champion Title

Olympic Gold Medals

World Cup Victories

National TItles

History

The SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing Team (former SWISSPOWER) has a long, successful history in mountain bike racing. It all started in 2002, when Thomas Frischknecht became the face of SCOTT’s racing program to start the SWISSPOWER team together with former national coach Andi Seeli. The team’s philosophy is built around developing young, talented riders from Switzerland such as Florian Vogel, and from 2003 – present, Nino Schurter. By bringing these riders into a professional structure and providing them with both opportunity and support, the SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing Team is the definition of a success story – one which continues today, having created National-, World Cup-, World- and Olympic Champions over the years.

While Olympic and World Champion Nino Schurter takes the role of a leader, Team Manager Thomas Frischknecht runs the most successful Cross-Country team on the World Cup circuit with a lot of experience. Completing the 2025 roster, the 2024 Swiss champion Filippo Colombo will compete alongside new team members such as the 2024 US National Champion Bjorn Riley and Emilly Johnston, with Andri Frischknecht (member of the team since over 10 years), rounding out the most successful team in XC MTB racing.

Innovation

SCOTT-SRAM works with its riders and an experienced team of specialists closely with renowned partners from the bicycle industry. The team’s ideas flow directly into the product development of SCOTT, SRAM, ROCKSHOX, SYNCROS and MAXXIS. SCOTT-SRAM set some new standards with some of their developments. “Frischi” won the first ever Mountain bike Marathon World Championships in Lugano / Switzerland in 2003 – at the time on a revolutionary new bike with an entirely new concept of a shock that was adjustable into three different modes (lock-out mode, all-travel mode, and traction mode- today known as TwinLoc), the SCOTT Genius. The use of “collès” in the sport of mountain biking or the 27.5“ wheel size, which has become a standard in the mountain bike industry, just being one of them.