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.

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 222 km, 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 MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 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
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race
 * 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 Jersey orange.svg Overall Tour Down Under
 * 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
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race
 * 3rd Time trial
 * 1st Jersey pink.svg Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
 * 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 Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour du Limousin
 * 1st Stage 1
 * National Road Championships
 * 2nd Road race
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
 * 1st Jersey blue.svg Points classification
 * 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
 * 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt


 * 2014
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 6th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
 * 7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
 * Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stages 7 & 15 Tour de France


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


 * 2016
 * 1st Jersey red.svg Best Swiss rider classification Tour de Suisse
 * 4th Overall Arctic Race of Norway