Christian Eminger

Christian Eminger (born October 21, 1964 in Baden , Aargau ) is an Austrian cyclist and former speed skater .

Career

Speed skating

As a speed skater, Christian Eminger, the son of the speed skater Kurt Eminger , who also started at the Olympics , represented Austria between 1980 and 1998 at three Olympic Winter Games ( Sarajevo 1984 , Calgary 1988 and Lillehammer 1994 ), 13 world championships and 14 European championships. In World Cup races he achieved one victory (5000 m, Innsbruck), two second and four third places. He set a world record over 3000 m and won two world championship medals over 5000 m and 10000 m. He was also national coach for Switzerland for three years (2002-2004) and one year national coach for Austria. He achieved 103 top ten placements at World Championships, European Championships and World Cups. Failure to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics led to the end of his career as a speed skater.

Cycling

As a cyclist, Christian Eminger was third in the road race of the Austrian state championship in 1990 . In 2000 he won the Leimental Tour in Switzerland. At the Tour du Cameroun , Eminger was able to win a stage and came second in the overall standings. As a result, he finished seventh in the final ranking of the UCI Africa Tour 2005 . A year later he was successful on a section of the Tour de la Martinique . In 2006 he won the Leo Wirth Memorial (Germany) and was UCI Masters World Champion. In 2007 he was successful in Germany at the Opfinger Sonnenbergschleife and won the Grenzland criterion in Bad Säckingen. He also won the Swiss National Amateur Championship and defended the Masters World Championship title he won the previous year . Between 2002 and 2007 he won the national elite race in Schwarzhäusern (Switzerland) six times in a row. At the age of 43 he signed a contract as captain of the newly formed Swiss Continental team STEG Computer for 2008 . In 2011 he again won a stage of the Tour du Cameroun .

Christian Eminger lives in Basel , Switzerland .

Web links

Christian Eminger in the Radsportseiten.net database

Christian Eminger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Fritz Neumann: Christian Eminger: ran and ran and ran, drives and drives and drives. In: derstandard.at . August 10, 2015, accessed February 4, 2017 .
↑ This racing driver is 46 years old and not a bit tired. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. March 17, 2011, accessed February 4, 2017 .
↑ Sebastian Ehret: Cycling: Christian Eminger has the fastest legs. In: badische-zeitung.de. July 9, 2013, accessed February 4, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Eminger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian cyclist and speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baden , Aargau , Switzerland

[derstandard-2000020475329-1] A ^b Fritz Neumann: Christian Eminger: ran and ran and ran, drives and drives and drives. In: derstandard.at . August 10, 2015, accessed February 4, 2017 .

[aargauer-976369-2] This racing driver is 46 years old and not a bit tired. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. March 17, 2011, accessed February 4, 2017 .

[badische-423575-3] Sebastian Ehret: Cycling: Christian Eminger has the fastest legs. In: badische-zeitung.de. July 9, 2013, accessed February 4, 2017 .