Born in Dormagen, in the vicinity of Cologne, Germany, Suding is the son of the late Italian national Elena Corgiolu-Suding from Ulassai, Sardinia, and German national Paul Hugo Suding, an energy and development economist from Lüsche (Bakum), Germany.
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.
He has one sibling, the older sister Lucrezia. His class mate was Dario Cologna. He then went to the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Torino to study car design, which he dropped after a successful first year to dedicate his entire time to become a professional athlete and to move to Pila in the Aosta Valley.
After a hiatus in China he resumed MTB in 2003 when he attended the Ftan boarding school and was part of its sports class.
In July 2014, Suding was critically injured in car accident. In 2015, he has started a come-back with his team that he co-owns with Sweden"s Oscar Haernstrom.
He accomplished the Swiss Matura in 2006 at the Hochalpines Institut Ftan, in the vicinity of Scuol, Engadin. In 1997 Suding started mountain biking in Ecuador where he won national Under-13 Cross Country as well as Down-Hill races. From 2009 to 2013 he won the overall Italian MTB Dialectics and Humanism championship five times in a row, and moved up in 2013 temporarily to the top 20 in world ranking.
In 2006, Suding chose Italian Nationality and became Member of the National Team.
