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Martin Elmiger

  • Published Dec. 22, 2011
Ag2r's Martin Elmiger spent a lot of time in the day's breakaway. Here's his Kuota KOM before the start. The only special touches for the Swiss national champion's bike are the Swiss flag sticker and the red SRAM brake hoods.
  • Height: 181 cm
  • Weight: 72 kg
  • Birthdate: September 23, 1978
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Hometown: Zug, Switzerland
  • Team: AG2R LA MONDIALE
  • Specialties and Strengths: Classics Rider
  • Career Highlights:

    2011

    • 17th Paris-Roubaix
    • A third stage of the Tour de Picardie
    • 5th Swiss Championship Sprint

    2010

    • Winner of the GP of the Somme
    • Winner of 4 Jours de Dunkerque / Winner of a stage
    • Swiss champion Sprint
    • Third of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes / second stage of a
    • 3rd Championship in Switzerland of CLM
    • 16th Tour Down Under
    • 75th Tour de France
    • Participation at the World Championships

    2009

    An operation of the iliac artery was kept away from the competition for much of the season

    • Second and seventh stages of the Circuit de Lorraine / fifth of the overall
    • Third, sixth stages of the Tour Down Under / 4th overall
    • Third of the Eroica
    • Fifth and eighth stages of the Tour of California / 29th in the overall standings
    • Eighth Tour de Vendée
    • 9th Tour of Flanders
    • 12th Milan-San Remo

    2008

    • Winner, fifth and ninth stages of the Tour de Picardie third of the overall
    • 2nd Tour of the Canton of Aargau
    • A second stage of the Tour de Suisse
    • 2nd Championship in Switzerland online racing
    • Second and ninth stages of the 71st Tour de France general classification
    • 7th GP Waregem
    • 13th Tour Down Under
    • Of the 18th Amstel Gold Race
    • 21st of Milan-San Remo

    2007 - AG2R Prévoyance

    • Winner of the Tour Down Under - the second and third stages
    • Winner of the Grand Prix Isbergues
    • A third stage of the Tour de France - the 74th overall
    • 3rd Tour of the Somme
    • Third and seventh stages of the Tour de Picardie
    • 5th Tour de Romandie
    • Sixth and seventh stages of the Etoile de Bessèges
    • Seventh and ninth stages of the Tour of Switzerland
    • 8th and 10th double of steps in the Deutschland Tour
    • 9th Grand Prix Chiasso
    • Giro della Romagna 9th
    • 10th Swiss Championship Sprint
    • 10th World Championship Sprint
    • 14th Milan-San Remo
    • The 14th Vattenfall Cyclassics
    • 15th Grand Prix Ouest-France
    • Of the 16th Amstel Gold Race
    • 16th Tour of the Canton of Aargau
    • 17th Gent-Wevelgem
    • 19th of E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
    • 24th Paris-Roubaix

    2006

    • The second Trofeo Mallorca
    • Fifth of the Trofeo Calvia
    • A seventh stage of the Tour of the Walloon Region
    • An eighth stage of the Tour of California
    • A ninth stage of Tour of Switzerland
    • 9th of Milan-San Remo
    • 14th World Championships of Online (Salzburg)
    • 16th Gent-Wevelgem
    • 18th Paris-Roubaix

    2005

    • Swiss champion Sprint
    • Second championship in Switzerland CLM
    • A second stage of the Vuelta a España
    • Sixth of the Hew-Cyclassics-Cup Hamburg
    • A sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse
    • 7th Tour de Berne
    • A seventh stage of the Tour of the Walloon Region
    • Eighth of the Giro di Lombardia
    • 10th World Championship online (Madrid)

    2004

    • A first stage of the Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon
    • Second GP Cerami
    • 2nd Paris-Bourges
    • Third of GP Gippingen
    • Third of the prologue of the Tour de Romandie
    • A fourth stage of the Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon
    • 5th Swiss Championship Sprint
    • Seventh championship Swiss CLM

    2003

    • First GP Gippingen
    • Of second-Stauss Rundfahrt
    • Second the Circuito de Getxo "Memorial Ricardo Otxoa"
    • A second stage of the Tour de Romandie
    • 2nd of Milano-Vignola - GP Beghelli

    2002

    • 1 of the Circuito de Getxo "Memorial Ricardo Otxoa"
    • 4th Grand Prix Ouest France

    2001

    • Swiss champion Sprint
  • About Me:

    "Despite recurring health problems, Martin has become four times in 2010. He has great qualities that should allow him to win very big races."

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