Matthias Buxhofer

Matthias Buxhofer

To person
Date of birth	30th September 1973 (age 46)
nation	Austria
discipline	Road cycling , cyclo-cross , triathlon , duathlon
Driver type	Baroudeur
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
doping
August 2002	Norandrosterone
Team (s)
2000-2002 2004-2005	Phonak Hearing Systems Team Volksbank-Ideal-Leingruber
Most important successes
Stage winner Germany Tour 2001
Last updated: April 12, 2020

Matthias Buxhofer (born September 30, 1973 in Feldkirch ) is a former Austrian cyclist and multiple national champion (1992, 2016), who is now active as a duathlete and triathlete .

Career

Buxhofer began his cycling career in the cyclo-cross area , where he quickly developed into one of the best riders in Austria. In 1993 and the following year he won bronze at the state championships, in 1995 and 1996 he was vice state champion in his country behind Dietmar Stari . This was followed by another third place before he gave up cross-sport in favor of his street career. He celebrated victories in cyclo-cross, among other things, in the Steyr cyclocross in 1996.

In addition to his cross-country career, Buxhofer was initially active on the street as an amateur . At the age of 19, he became national champion in the 100 km team time trial in 1992. In 1994 he won the prologue of the Tour of Austria , in the following season he came third and won the fourth stage. In 1996 he was able to achieve a third stage place in his home race. As an amateur, he also achieved top placings in some criteria , for example he won the circuit race in Altheim (Upper Austria) in 1995 or came third at the Peter Dittrich Memorial two years later. With third place in the overall ranking of the Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Vienna race in May 1997, he recommended himself for a stagiaire contract with the Italian professional team Scrigno-Gaerne , which however did not keep him busy after the end of the season.

So Buxhofer stayed in the amateur camp, where he drove his most successful road season to date in 1998. There were victories in the overall ranking of the Istrian Spring Trophy in Croatia , at the Völkermarkter Radsporttage and the Kettler-Classic Südkärnten . The Austrian achieved further podium finishes at the GP Puch in Slovenia , at the Peter Dittrich Memorial , the OBV Classic and again at Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Wien . In the following season he was successful in the Laventhal road race and won the Lavanttaler Cycling Days . Thanks to these results, he received another stagiaire contract at the end of the year, this time with the Post Swiss team .

For the 2000 season, Buxhofer then made the leap to the professional camp and switched to the newly founded Swiss racing team Phonak Hearing Systems . Here he was one of the most successful team members and won the Grand Prix Vorarlberg in his Austrian homeland as well as the Wartenberg tour . Another success was the first place in the sprint classification of the Tour de Suisse , the largest race in which Phonak took part in 2000. Buxhofer clinched a total of eleven more top ten places for the team, including a seventh place in the overall ranking of the Germany Tour .
At the end of September he was then appointed to the Austrian selection for the Olympic Games in Sydney , where he crossed the finish line as 51st in the road race.

Buxhofer remained successful in 2001 and won a stage of the Germany Tour . In the Lower Saxony tour he took third place. He finished eight more races in the top ten. When the Phonak team strengthened itself in the 2002 season with the former world champion Oscar Camenzind and was therefore invited to major international races, Buxhofer was mostly on duty as a helper for the newly signed captains, but this did not prevent him from achieving some of his own good results. In May Phonak called the Austrian into the squad for the Giro d'Italia , which was the first Grand Tour for the team and also for Buxhofer. In the prologue in Groningen , the Netherlands , he was able to attract attention with a fourth place. On stage 12 he was in a successful breakaway group with his teammate Bert Grabsch and finished fifth on the day. He finally reached the goal in Milan in 55th place overall. In June, Buxhofer won the bronze medal in the individual time trial at the Austrian state championships .

Doping and return to cycling in 2002

On August 15, 2002, during the Tour of Denmark , Buxhofer tested positive for norandrosterone and was then released by Phonak. In an attempt to prove his innocence, he was defeated and banned for two years.

After his suspension expired, the Austrian returned to cycling in August 2004 and initially rode as a trainee and then as a semi-professional for the Volksbank-Ideal Leingruber team , while at the same time completing a training as a police officer . With some criteria he managed to make it onto the podium again. After the 2006 season he ended his career as a professional racing driver, but continued to compete in bicycle races as an amateur.

Triathlon since 2007

After the end of his professional cycling career, Matthias Buxhofer devoted himself to triathlon . In 2007 he was second in his age group at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships, in 2008 third in the amateur class at the Ironman in Sankt Pölten and Vorarlberg national champion in triathlon and duathlon .

With his bronze medal at the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt 2009, he qualified for the Ironman Hawaii . When he first participated in the Ironman Hawaii, he was tenth in the M35 age group. In May 2011 he won the Linz Triathlon .

He has been married to triathlete Sabine Kempter (* 1979) since June 2013 and they have a son. At Ironman Hawaii 2013 in October he was the best Austrian runner-up in his age group.

Sporting successes

Cycling

Cross country
1993		Austrian state championships
1994		Austrian state championships
1995		Austrian state championships
1995		Austrian state championships
1996		Austrian state championships
		Steyr cyclocross
1997		Austrian state championships
Street
1992		Austrian national champion (4-man team time trial)
1994		Prologue of the Tour of Austria
1995		4th stage of the Tour of Austria
1998		Istrian Spring Trophy
2000		Grand Prix Vorarlberg
		Wartenberg tour
		Sprint evaluation of the Tour de Suisse
		Participants of the Olympic Games
2001		5th stage of the Deutschland Tour
2002		Austrian state championships in the individual time trial

Triathlon and Duathlon

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

2008

• Austrian national champion duathlon
• Austrian national champion triathlon

Web links

• Profile of Matthias Buxhofer on the club website of PSV Vorarlberg
• Matthias Buxhofer in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Matthias Buxhofer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-professional cyclist Matthias Buxhofer wants to take part in the Triathlon World Cup on vol.at on July 30, 2008
2. ↑ That was the Linztriathlon 2011 on linztriathlon.at on May 20th, 2011 ( Memento of the original of March 22nd, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Triathlon Lauingen: Roth and Regensburg at the top (June 21, 2015)
4. ↑ Steeltownman Triathlon: Birngruber and Rechberger win (July 8, 2012)
5. ↑ Thomas Knobel: Van Vlerken and Buxhofer are new national duathlon champions In: vol.at from May 1, 2012