Martin Elmiger

Martin Elmiger (born 23 September 1978) is a Swiss 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 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) 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

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

2nd Time trial 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 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

3rd Time trial

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 Stage 1 National Road Championships 2nd Road race 2nd Time trial 2nd Overall Tour of Britain

8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt 2014

6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway

2015 5th Overall Tour of Belgium 5th Paris–Roubaix 10th Tour of Flanders 2016

4th Overall Arctic Race of Norway

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish