Armin Meier (born 3 November 1969) is a Swiss former cyclist. He was involved the Festina affair, and was part of the team that was disqualified from the

1998 Tour de France The 1998 Tour de France was the 85th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. The race was composed of 21 stages and a prologue. It started on 11 July in Ireland before taking an anti-clockwise route t ...

. Despite never testing positive for any drugs, he admitted to the use of EPO throughout his career. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1996 and 1999. He also competed in the individual road race at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...

Major results

;1989 : 1st Hegiberg-Rundfahrt ;1992 : 2nd Road race, National Amateur Road Championships ;1993 : 1st Tour du Canton de Genève ;1994 : 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau ;1995 : 1st Prologue Tour de Normandie ;1996 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 3 Uniqa Classic : 2nd

Gran Premio di Lugano The Gran Premio di Lugano () is a road bicycle race held annually in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to 1981 it was held as an individual time trial but in recent years it has been organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe T ...

: 7th Josef Voegeli Memorial : 7th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell : 7th Overall

Regio-Tour The Regio-Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held between France, Switzerland and Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Famous riders like Laurent Brochard, Jan Ullrich, ...

: 9th Overall

Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse () is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France, which is on the calend ...

: 10th Overall Tour de Normandie ;1997 : 2nd Josef Voegeli Memorial : 3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell : 6th GP de Fourmies : 7th Overall Giro di Sardegna ;1998 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Josef Voegeli Memorial : 4th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ;1999 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall

Grand Prix du Midi Libre The Grand Prix du Midi Libre (referred to as just Midi Libre) was a multiple-stage road cycling course in the south of France. The race, named after the newspaper that organized it, was first organized in 1949 and was an important preparation co ...

;2000 : 5th Josef Voegeli Memorial ;2001 : 9th GP du canton d'Argovie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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* 1969 births Living people Swiss male cyclists Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Switzerland Doping cases in cycling Cyclists from the canton of Lucerne 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-cycling-bio-stub