Lorenzo Suding (born 15 March 1986) is a professional mountain bike (MTB) downhill and enduro athlete and multiple champion of Italy, living in Valle d’Aosta.
Suding left Germany at the age of 3 with his family and lived in Bujumbura (Burundi), Quito (Ecuador), and Beijing (China), where he attended schools that taught in French, Spanish, English and German.
In 1997 Suding started mountain biking in Ecuador where he won national Under-13 Cross Country as well as Down-Hill races.
After a hiatus in China he resumed MTB in 2003 when he attended the famous Hochalpines Institut Ftan in Switzerland and was part of its sports class.
From 2009 to 2013 he won the overall Italian MTB DH championship five times in a row,[3] and moved up in 2013 to the top 20 in world ranking.