Armin Meier (cyclist)

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Armin Meier Road cycling
Armin Meier near Paris – Nice, 1997
Armin Meier near Paris – Nice , 1997
To person
Date of birth 3rd November 1969
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
discipline Street
Driver type Classic driver
Team (s)
1996
1997
1998
1999-2001 		PMU Romand
Batik-Del Monte
Festina
Saeco
Most important successes
Last updated: June 18, 2017

Armin Meier (born November 3, 1969 in Rickenbach ) is a former Swiss cyclist . From 2004 to 2009 he was director of the Tour de Suisse .

Career

Active racing driver

Armin Meier was one of the strongest road drivers in Switzerland in the 1990s, but had already won smaller road races such as the Hegiberg Tour in 1989 . In 1992 he became the Swiss runner-up for amateurs in road racing. In the same year he started in the road race of the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 and finished 70th.

From 1995 to 2001 Meier was active in the elite as a cyclist. In 1996 he won the Giro del Lago Maggiore . In 1996 and 1999 he was Swiss road racing champion. He took part in the Tour de France three times in 1998 , 1999 and 2000 , and in 1998 as a member of the Festina team . In the other two years he started for the Saeco cycling team , in which Mario Cipollini and Cadel Evans also rode.

1998 Festina doping scandal

As part of the Festina doping scandal , Meier admitted in 1998 that he had doped with EPO and was banned for six months. In 2002 he said in an interview with the newspaper Die Südschweiz : “I just regret this whole confession ... For me, doping is and has never been an offense. At most a little cheating. No more and no less." A few years later, he radically changed his views on doping when, for example, as Tour de Suisse director, he excluded Belgian sprint star Tom Boonen from the tour for cocaine abuse. .

Entrepreneur since 2002

Armin Meier was Management Director at IMG and from mid-2004 he was Director of the Tour de Suisse for six years .

Armin Meier looked after the Swiss time trial Olympic champion and four-time cycling world champion Fabian Cancellara until his resignation in 2016 and is currently also the manager of Ironman Hawaii winner Daniela Ryf and Silvan Dillier .

With his company Human Sports Management AG , Meier announced a resumption of the TriStar racing series (triathlon races over different distances) in 2017 .

Private

Armin Meier was married to the Swiss skier Karin Roten until 2007 . He has two children with her.

successes

1989
  • Grand Prix de la Liberté
  • Hegiberg tour
1994
1995
  • Leimental tour
1996
1999
  • MaillotSuiza.svg Swiss champions - road races

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner list Swiss championship road race men elite (June 27, 2010)
  2. ↑ Doping cases on cycling4fans.de
  3. ↑ From Saul to Paulus - Tour de Suisse director Armin Meier only wants clean drivers on the tour “I've had enough”. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 14, 2008, accessed on June 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Cancellara and Dillier as customers: Armin Meier is now founding his own company (December 8, 2015)
  5. ↑ Triumvirate replaces Armin Meier in the Tour de Suisse (September 2, 2010)
  6. ↑ Ex-professional Armin Meier founds agency (November 17, 2015)
  7. ↑ Harald Eggebrecht: Daniela Ryf: You have to stay tuned during training, otherwise you are gone. In: tri2b.com. October 19, 2016, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Cancellara and Dillier as customers: Armin Meier is now founding his own company. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. December 8, 2015, accessed June 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ New start of the TriStar triathlon series in Rorschach with Fabian Cancellara as partner (April 6, 2017)
  10. ↑ Triathlon relaunch: TriStar series returns, Fabian Cancellara becomes ambassador (April 6, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rickenbach , Switzerland