Armin Meier

Armin Meier
Personal information
Born	3 November 1969 (age 52); Rickenbach, Lucerne, Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1995	Cicli Ghia–Villiger
1996	PMU Romand–Bepsa
1997	Batik–Del Monte
1998	Festina–Lotus
1999–2001	Saeco Macchine per Caffè–Cannondale

Armin Meier (born 3 November 1969) is a Swiss former cyclist.^[1] He was involved the Festina affair, and was part of the team that was disqualified from the 1998 Tour de France. Despite never testing positive for any drugs, he admitted to the use of EPO throughout his career. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1996 and 1999.^[2] He also competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Major results[]

1989: 1st Hegiberg-Rundfahrt
1992: 2nd Road race, National Amateur Road Championships
1993: 1st Tour du Canton de Genève
1994: 1st Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau
1995: 1st Prologue Tour de Normandie
1996: 1st Road race, National Road Championships; 1st Stage 3 Uniqa Classic; 2nd Gran Premio di Lugano; 7th Josef Voegeli Memorial; 7th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell; 7th Overall Regio-Tour; 9th Overall Tour de Suisse; 10th Overall Tour de Normandie
1997: 2nd Josef Voegeli Memorial; 3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell; 6th GP de Fourmies; 7th Overall Giro di Sardegna
1998: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships; 3rd Josef Voegeli Memorial; 4th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
1999: 1st Road race, National Road Championships; 7th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre
2000: 5th Josef Voegeli Memorial
2001: 9th GP du canton d'Argovie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	1997	1998	1999	2000
Giro d'Italia	DNF	48	—	—
Tour de France	—	DSQ	31	DNF
Vuelta a España	—	—	DNF	104

Legend
DSQ	Disqualified
DNF	Did not finish
—	Did not compete

References[]

^ "Armin Meier". Retrieved 1 March 2015.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Armin Meier Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2016.

External links[]

Armin Meier at Cycling Archives

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[1] "Armin Meier". Retrieved 1 March 2015.

[SwissChamp-2] "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.

[SportsRef-3] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Armin Meier Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2016.

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v t Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)
1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)
1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)
1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)
1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)
2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021)

Personal information

Born	(1969-11-03) 3 November 1969 (age 52) Rickenbach, Lucerne, Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1995	Cicli Ghia–Villiger
1996	PMU Romand–Bepsa
1997	Batik–Del Monte
1998	Festina–Lotus
1999–2001	Saeco Macchine per Caffè–Cannondale