Martin Elmiger
.jpg) Elmiger at the 2013 Four Days of Dunkirk. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Martin Elmiger |
| Born | 23 September 1978 Hagendorn, Switzerland |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Amateur teams | |
| 1992–1996 | RMV Cham–Hagendorn |
| 1997 | Cilo–Ciclolinea–Columbus |
| 1998 | GS Bianchi–Girostar |
| 1999–2000 | GS Seat–Kona–Radio Argovia |
| 2000 | Saeco (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2001 | Post Swiss Team |
| 2002–2006 | Phonak |
| 2007–2012 | AG2R Prévoyance |
| 2013–2016 | IAM Cycling |
| 2017 | BMC Racing Team |
| Major wins | |
Stage races
| |
Martin Elmiger (born 23 September 1978) is a Swiss former road racing cyclist,[1] who rode professionally between 2001 and 2017 for the Post Swiss Team, Phonak, Ag2r–La Mondiale, IAM Cycling and BMC Racing Team squads. During his career, Elmiger was a four-time winner of the Swiss National Road Race Championships.[2]
Career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Born in Hagendorn, Elmiger's sporting career began with RMV Cham-Hagendorn.[3]
AG2R Prévoyance (2007–12)
[edit]One of the best moments in Elmiger's career was leading the 2007 Tour Down Under for 2 stages and then winning it by a mere 3 seconds over Australian Karl Menzies. He started the UCI ProTour strongly with a 19th place in E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, 17th in Gent–Wevelgem and 24th in Paris–Roubaix after crashing. On stage 2 of the Tour de Romandie, Elmiger finished 5th behind stage winner Robbie McEwen in the wake of a massive pileup involving several riders at high speed. Elmiger started the Tour de Suisse strongly with a 7th place in the prologue, finishing 10.82 seconds behind Fabian Cancellara and in front of riders like Andreas Klöden and Michael Rogers.
IAM Cycling (2013–16)
[edit]Elmiger left Ag2r–La Mondiale at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new IAM Cycling team for the 2013 season.[4]
On the fifteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, Elmiger broke away with Jack Bauer for 222 kilometres (138 miles), only to be caught by the charging peloton a few metres from the line.[5]
Major results
[edit]- 2000
- 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
- 6th Rund um den Henninger Turm U23
- 2001
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 3rd Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
- 8th Tour du Lac Léman
- 2002
- 1st Circuito de Getxo
- 4th GP Ouest–France
- 4th Boucles de l'Aulne
- 4th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
- 2003
- 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 2nd Circuito de Getxo
- 2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
- 2nd Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
- 7th Coppa Sabatini
- 8th Giro del Lazio
- 2004
- 1st Stage 3 Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon
- 2nd Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 2nd Paris–Bourges
- 3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 2005
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya
- 6th HEW Cyclassics
- 7th Tour de Berne
- 8th Giro di Lombardia
- 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2006
- 2nd Trofeo Mallorca
- 5th Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
- 9th Milan–San Remo
- 2007
- 1st
Overall Tour Down Under - 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 3rd Grand Prix de la Somme
- 8th Gran Premio di Chiasso
- 9th Giro della Romagna
- 10th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 2008
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 3rd Overall Tour de Picardie
- 1st Stage 2
- 7th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2009
- 3rd Monte Paschi Strade Bianche
- 4th Overall Tour Down Under
- 5th Overall Circuit de Lorraine
- 8th Tour de Vendée
- 9th Tour of Flanders
- 2010
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Grand Prix de la Somme
- 3rd Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 2011
- 5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 2012
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 10th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 10th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 2013
- 1st
Overall Tour du Limousin
- 1st Stage 1
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 2014
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
Combativity award Stages 7 & 15 Tour de France- 2015
- 5th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- 2016
- 1st
Best Swiss rider classification Tour de Suisse - 4th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France
|
108 | — | — | 74 | 71 | — | 75 | — | — | — | 75 | 100 | 64 |
| Vuelta a España
|
— | 86 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ Biermayr, Raphael (6 October 2017). "Martin Elmiger: Das verlässliche Rädchen tritt ab" [Martin Elmiger: The reliable wheel cedes]. Neue Luzerner Zeitung (in German). AG für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ Post Swiss Team 2001. Däniken: Impressio AG. 2001. p. 15.
- ^ "IAM Cycling announces 2013 roster". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- ^ Stephen Farrand (7 July 2014). "Bauer heartbroken to miss Tour de France stage win at Nîmes". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
External links
[edit]
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 February 2016)
- Martin Elmiger at UCI
- Martin Elmiger at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Martin Elmiger at ProCyclingStats
- Martin Elmiger at CQ Ranking
- Martin Elmiger at CycleBase
- Martin Elmiger at Olympedia
- Martin Elmiger at Olympics.com
