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.

[6] Since 2012 he has worked as advisor and test pilot for European paraglider manufacturers Ozone and Advance.

[7][8] Maurer grew up in Adelboden, in the Bernese Highlands, where he attended elementary and secondary schools.

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.

[9] In 2006 Maurer met his future wife, fellow Swiss paragliding champion and World Cup winner Karin Maurer [de] (then Appenzeller), on the Paragliding World Cup (PWC) circuit, where they both competed and won gold medals in their respective categories.