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Martin Elmiger (born 23 September 1978) is a
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former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2017 for the Post Swiss Team, , , and squads. During his career, Elmiger was a four-time winner of the Swiss National Road Race Championships.


Career


Early career

Born in Hagendorn, Elmiger's sporting career began with RMV Cham-Hagendorn.


AG2R Prévoyance (2007–12)

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
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n Karl Menzies. He started the
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strongly with a 19th place in
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen E3 Saxo Bank Classic, previously known as E3 BinckBank Classic, E3 Harelbeke, Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke and E3-Prijs Vlaanderen, is an annual road cycling race in Flanders, Belgium. The race starts and finishes in Harelbeke, covering 203 ki ...
, 17th in
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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)

Elmiger left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new team for the 2013 season. On the fifteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, Elmiger broke away with Jack Bauer for , only to be caught by the charging peloton a few metres from the line.


Major results

;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 The Circuito de Getxo () is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in July in Getxo Getxo () (Spanish: ''Guecho'') is a town located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basq ...
: 4th GP Ouest–France : 4th
Boucles de l'Aulne Boucles de l'Aulne is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in May or June around Châteaulin, in the region of Brittany, France. Since 2006, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was previously known as Grand ...
: 4th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau ;2003 : 1st
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton () is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of Gippingen, which belongs to the municipa ...
: 2nd
Circuito de Getxo The Circuito de Getxo () is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in July in Getxo Getxo () (Spanish: ''Guecho'') is a town located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basq ...
: 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 Grand Prix Pino Cerami is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Hainaut, Belgium. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before being cancelled from 2019 to 2022. Upon its return in 2 ...
: 2nd Paris–Bourges : 3rd
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton () is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of Gippingen, which belongs to the municipa ...
;2005 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)
Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...
: 6th
HEW Cyclassics The Hamburg Cyclassics (currently known as the Bemer Cyclassics for sponsorship purposes) is an annual one-day professional and amateur road bicycle race, cycling race in and around Hamburg, Germany. Although the route varies, its distance is alw ...
: 7th Tour de Berne : 8th
Giro di Lombardia The Giro di Lombardia (), officially ''Il Lombardia'', is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five 'Cycling monument, Monuments' of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in cycli ...
: 10th Road race,
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;2006 : 2nd Trofeo Mallorca : 5th Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova : 9th
Milan–San Remo Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...
;2007 : 1st Overall Tour Down Under : 1st
Grand Prix d'Isbergues Grand Prix d'Isbergues is a professional cycle road race held in Isbergues, Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which ...
: 3rd Grand Prix de la Somme : 8th Gran Premio di Chiasso : 9th Giro della Romagna : 10th Road race,
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;2008 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton () is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of Gippingen, which belongs to the municipa ...
: 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 In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
: 1st Overall
Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk () is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been held over a 5 or 6 day period for ...
::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 In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
, National Road Championships : 10th Overall
Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk () is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been held over a 5 or 6 day period for ...
: 10th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 10th
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton () is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of Gippingen, which belongs to the municipa ...
;2013 : 1st Overall Tour du Limousin ::1st Stage 1 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd
Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...
: 2nd Overall Tour of Britain ::1st Points classification : 8th Overall
Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk () is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been held over a 5 or 6 day period for ...
: 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 The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...
;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


References


External links

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