Michael Emde is a Category 1 USCF Racer,
Ultra Endurance Cycling 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
experiences
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 USA National
24h MTB Masters Team Title (2003),
a 5th place at
the 24h Solo National MTB Championships (2005),
2 UMCA World Cup Race
wins at the Davis 24h Challenge, also setting a course
record (2009) & at the Furnace Creek 508
3 course records
(2005, 2007 & 2008) with 3 race times under 28 hours, one 3rd (2005),
one 2nd (2009)
and "3"1st places (2006, 2007
& 2008) at the Furnace Creek 508
(a RAAM qualifying event).
"Michael
Alpine Ibex Emde has the strongest 508 career record yet: 3rd in
2005, 1st in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and then 2nd in
2009. He earned his Furnace Creek 508 Hall of Fame entry in 2009
too."
Over the years he
has earned 9 Washington State Championship Titles and many top 3 placings in WA-State
& Lower Austria-State Championship
Events, two
Washington State BARR (best all around rider)
overall wins 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, in 2008 we
had 330 children attend this series!
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.
