Chrigel Maurer Body Transformation and Career Facts

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 between the 2009 and 2023 editions. 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 between 2014 and 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.. That record has continued to be surpassed and in 2018 was set at 612 consecutive.
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...

Quick facts about Chrigel Maurer

• Name: Chrigel Maurer
• Known for: Christian "Chrigel" Maurer, also known as "Chrigel the Eagle" or the "Eagle of…
• Category: body transformations
• Wikidata ID: Q121332

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