Chrigel Maurer

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Christian "Chrigel" Maurer, 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, 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. Read more

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