# 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, Phonak, Ag2r–La Mondiale, IAM Cycling and BMC Racing Team 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 Ag2r–La Mondiale at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new IAM Cycling team for the 2013 season.
On the fifteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, Elmiger broke away with Jack Bauer for 222 kilometres (138 miles), 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
    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 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 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 Road race
       3rd Time trial
    1st 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 Overall Tour du Limousin
       1st Stage 1
    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    2nd Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Points classification
    8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    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

### 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

| Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 108 | — | — | 74 | 71 | — | 75 | — | — | — | 75 | 100 | 64 |
| Vuelta a España | — | 86 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |