Chrigel Maurer
Christian "Chrigel" Maurer (born 1982), also known as "Chrigel the Eagle" or the "Eagle of Adelboden", is a Swiss paragliding competition pilot and endurance athlete who has won all eight Red Bull X-Alps "hike-and-fly" paragliding championships since 2009, including the 2023 edition. He has also won the paragliding World Cup, World, European and Swiss championships multiple times, and the Pyreneean X-Pyr hike-and-fly championships four times (all editions since 2014, including 2022), as well as the Swiss Hang Gliding championships in 2007.In 2009, Maurer set an aerobatic world record for the most "Infinity Tumbles", performing 210 consecutive tumbles in a row in a paraglider.
Since 2012 he has worked as advisor and test pilot for European paraglider manufacturers Ozone and Advance. He is also active in teaching and coaching the sport of competition paragliding, with emphasis on young paraglider pilots, and provides motivational speaking to groups and organizations.
Maurer grew up in Adelboden, in the Bernese Highlands, where he attended elementary and secondary schools. At the age of four, in 1986, he flew with his father in a tandem paraglider for the first time. By the age of nine he was allowed to perform "flying exercises" near the ground and "small takeoffs". When he reached the legal flying age of 16, he passed his tests and received his flying certificate. While participating in flying competitions around the world, he worked as a bricklayer for two years, but by 2004 he decided to pursue a full-time career as a professional paragliding competitor and test pilot.
In 2006 Maurer met his future wife, fellow Swiss paragliding champion and World Cup winner (then Appenzeller), on the Paragliding World Cup (PWC) circuit, where they both competed and won gold medals in their respective categories. The pair was dubbed "dream couple" by the local media, and married in 2007. They have two sons.
His younger brother Michael is also an accomplished paragliding competition pilot.
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6by Stefan Hoerzer, Peter A Federolf, Christian Maurer, Jennifer Baltich, Benno M NiggGet full text
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8by Christian Maurer, Felix Stief, Alexander Jonas, Andrej Kovac, David Alexander Groneberg, Andrea Meurer, Daniela OhlendorfGet full text
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10by Christian Maurer, Sebastian Heller, Jil-Julia Sure, Daniel Fuchs, Christoph Mickel, Eileen M Wanke, David A Groneberg, Daniela OhlendorfGet full text
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11by Daniela Ohlendorf, Mara Romdhane, Christoph Lehmann, Sebastian Lehmann, Stefan Kopp, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Gerhard Oremek, David A. Groneberg, Eileen M. WankeGet full text
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12by Matteo Lambertini, Mariana Brandão, Evandro de Azambuja, Christian Maurer, Patricia Klarmann Ziegelmann, Noam F Pondé, Arlindo Ferreira, Samuel Martel, Martine Piccart, Márcio DebiasiGet full text
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13by Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Fabian Holzgreve, Laura Fraeulin, Werner Betz, Christina Erbe, Doerthe Brueggmann, Eileen M. Wanke, Albert Nienhaus, David A. Groneberg, Daniela OhlendorfGet full text
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14by Daniela Ohlendorf, Laura Maltry, Jasmin Hänel, Werner Betz, Christina Erbe, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Fabian Holzgreve, Eileen M. Wanke, Dörthe Brüggmann, Albert Nienhaus, David A. GronebergGet full text
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15by Laura Fraeulin, Fabian Holzgreve, Mark Brinkbäumer, Anna Dziuba, David Friebe, Stefanie Klemz, Marco Schmitt, Anna-Lena Theis A, Sarah Tenberg, Anke van Mark, Christian Maurer-Grubinger, Daniela OhlendorfGet full text
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16by Nadine Kutsch, Jasmin Bahlo, Sandra Robrecht, Jeremy Franklin, Can Zhang, Christian Maurer, Nisha De Silva, Elisabeth Lange, Rudolf Weide, Michael G. Kiehl, Martin Sökler, Rudolf Schlag, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Georg Köchling, Christoph Plöger, Michael Gregor, Torben Plesner, Marco Herling, Kirsten Fischer, Hartmut Döhner, Michael Kneba, Clemens-Martin Wendtner, Wolfram Klapper, Karl-Anton Kreuzer, Sebastian Böttcher, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Anna Maria Fink, Michael Hallek, Barbara EichhorstGet full text
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