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ATHLETIC PROFILES
Michael Emde

Hammer Nutrition
Endurance News "Athlete Spotlight" (pg. 28)

Michael Emde is a Category 1 USCF Racer,
Ultra Endurance Professional,
USCF Coach and Race Promoter, originally from Vienna, Austria he
now lives in Spokane, WA.
His bicycle
racing experience spans 23 years and his racing brings years of
international and domestic
experience
and results such as a 4th place in the Austrian National Track
Championships Elite Points Race (1992), a 3rd place at the
IPC
World Championships in the Sprints in Belgium (1994), 3 National
titles with the Austrian Blind Assn. (1993 & 1994), 1 US
National 24h MTB Masters Team Title (2003), a 5th place at the
24h Solo National MTB Championships (2005), 2 course records
(2005 & 2007), one 3rd (2005) and two 1st places (2006 & 2007) at the
Furnace Creek 508 (a RAAM
qualifying event). Over the years I’ve earned multiple
Washington State Championship titles (5 total; 2 each in 2005 &
2006) and many top 3 placings in State Championship events, a
Washington State BARR (best all around rider) overall win and
numerous BARR placings.
Michael is also a
big advocate for bike safety in his local community that
encourages the use of daily helmet use and observance traffic
rules. He has participated in local school traffic education
field trips. During the season Michael and his spouse promote
several bicycle and triathlon races in the greater Spokane area.
Including a free yearly kids bicycle race series, this year we
had 330 children attend these events!

Michael also
competed nationally and internationally for the Austrian Blind
Association from 1993-1995 as a captain on a tandem for his
seeing impaired teammate Norbert Stuchetz. Both earned a berth
to the I.P.C. World Championships in Belgium in 1994. Their
results in Belgium brought to them an invitation to showcase the
tandem sport for the blind at the UCI World Championships in
Sicily, Italy in 1994.
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