Martin Elmiger

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Martin Elmiger

Elmiger during the 2007 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Martin Elmiger
Date of birth	September 23, 1978 (1978-09-23) (age 29)
Country	Switzerland
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	72 kg (160 lb)
Team information
Current team	Ag2r-La Mondiale
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2001 2002–2006 2007–	Post Swiss Phonak Hearing Systems Ag2r-La Mondiale
Major wins
National Road Race Champion (2001-2005) GP Gippingen (2003) Tour Down Under (2007) Grand Prix d'Isbergues (2007)
Infobox last updated on:
September 23, 2007

Martin Elmiger (born September 23, 1978 in Hagendorn) is a Swiss professional road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam Ag2r-La Mondiale. He turned pro in 2001 with the Swiss Post Office team. Elminger was on the infamous Phonak (cycling team) from 2002–2006. He was seen animating a stage of the 2003 Tour de Romandie finishing second in stage number 2.

Arguably one of the best moments in his career was leading the Tour Down Under in 2007 for 2 stages and then winning it by a mere 3 seconds over Australian Karl Menzies. He started the 2007 UCI ProTour strongly with a 19th place in Prijs Vlaanderen, 17th in Gent-Wevelgem and 24th in Paris-Roubaix after crashing. On stage 2 of The 2007 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 2007 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.

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[edit] References

• Profile
• Official Webpage Martin Elmiger
• Profile on AG2R Prévoyance official website

v • d • e Riders on Ag2r-La Mondiale José Luis Arrieta | Sylvain Calzati | Philip Deignan | Cyril Dessel | Renaud Dion | Hubert Dupont | Christophe Edaleine | Vladimir Efimkin | Martin Elmiger | John Gadret | Stéphane Goubert | Tanel Kangert | Yuriy Krivtsov | Julien Loubet | René Mandri | Laurent Mangel | Lloyd Mondory | Jean-Patrick Nazon | Rinaldo Nocentini | Cédric Pineau | Alexandre Pliuschin | Stéphane Poulhies | Christophe Riblon | Nicolas Rousseau | Jean-Charles Sénac | Blaise Sonnery | Ludovic Turpin | Alexandre Usov | Tadej Valjavec | Stijn Vandenbergh | Manager: Vincent Lavenu

Persondata
NAME	Elmiger, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1978-09-23
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagendorn, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH