Oliver Godart and Chris Weyland have qualified for the 40th Ironman World championships in Hawaii during the year. Unfortunately, Oliver could not align at the starting line due to a severe bike crash a month ago. Christian had a good start with a consistent swim in the pacific ocean, followed by a very strong bike performance […]
Results from the 43. Foyer Vollekslaf Walfer over 14.2km 80. Feltes Carlo – M LUX M50 01:02:37 152. Nilles Samuel – M LUX M40 01:07:11 180. Wurth Claude – M LUX M40 01:08:43 229. Blom Roy – M NLD M55 01:10:23 440. Albuquerque Fé – POR W45 01:18:56 RESULTS – 43. Walfer Vollekslaf
Several athletes raced the traditional half marathon ‘Route du vin’ in Remich, around 1500 athletes took the start at 15h00 on the flat track between Remich and Wormeldange. Firstly, best individual results go to our kids – Benedikt Strauss won the MAXI Route du raisin (2005-2008) over 1500m in a finish time of 5:20min net, […]
Carlo Feltes, only participant from our club, finished on excellent 35th rank out of 822 runners at the 3rd edition of the Steel Run Differdange 10km race. RESULTS – 3. Steel run Differdange 2018
Sonny Eschette shows once again her good shape at the middle distance triathlon (1.9-80-20km) at lake de Madine [FRA]. She wins her age group VEF and classified 3rd woman overall with a steady race and strong performances on the bike and run. Congratulations! Tom Peiffer (164th) and Brice Faucheux (53rd) finished the same distance too, […]
On Sunday Guy Theissen and Marc Matgen raced the 20 km nature run in Bastogne (B). The running course, mainly, consisted out of large single tracks, country roads, a few ups and downs and the odd field crossing. Guy crossed the finish line ranked 41st overall out of 184 finishers, while Marc finished 142nd overall. Results: http://ultratiming.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20KM-de-Bastogne-2018-20KM.pdf
Brice Faucheux raced the ‘short’ distance Mullerthal-Trail UTML on sunday, covering hilly 39km through the woods of eastern Luxembourg. He showed an excellent performance and finished on 4th rank overall out of 287 trail runners. Well done Brice! RESULTS – 3. Leopard UTML Ultratrail du Müllerthal
Our athlete Brice Faucheux raced the traditional middle distance triathlon in Gerardmer [FRA] over the XL distance (1.9-90-21km). He showed a steady performance over all 3 disciplines and finished on 13th rank in V1 age group and 112th overall (1492 starter, 1402 finisher) RESULTS – Triathlon Gerardmer XL 2018
Very good results from our 3 participants Susanne Gutjahr, Claude Lucas and Christian Weyland at the IM70.3 world championships in Port Elisabeth/South Africa. On saturday, Susanne finished the female age group race on excellent 65th rank in F40-44 out of 201 participants in this category. Her split times : 41:31 – 3h00:49 – 1h43:25 / […]
Susanne Gutjahr, Chris Weyland and Claude Lucas have qualified for the IM70.3 World Championships in Port Elisabeth/South Africa during the year and will now race on sunday amongst nearly 1800 athletes for potential WC age group titles. Good luck from the team!
The 23rd edition of the Weiswampach triathlon has been downgraded to a duathlon as a result of algae blooms. The Sprint Triathlon, organized as a short duathlon over 5-20-2.5km, counted for the national sprint triathlon championships. Only participants from our team were Brice Faucheux, who ranked on an excellent 7th position overall and 1st in […]
Tough but successful day for Sonny Eschette at one of the hardest long distance triathlon races in the world – the famous EmbrunMan over 3.8-188-42.2km. 2 loops in the ‘plan d’eau d’Embrun’, mountainous 188km with an altitude gain of approx. 5000m and a climb up to the ‘Col d’Izoard’ on 2346m and finally a hilly […]
Once again tremendous performance by Olivier Godart – he finishes best age-grouper at the IRONMAN 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship Philippines in Cebu. Out of 1784 athletes, Olivier finished 13th overall and best age-grouper overall in 4h09:40. After a 1.9km non-wetsuit swim (31:29min) in the crystalline waters of Mactan/Cebu, Olivier hammered a 2h12:56 bike split on the […]
Jérôme Barthels finished his 1st Ironman triathlon ever in Maastricht on sunday. A little anxious about this long distance, Jérôme Barthels stayed calm and raced steadily to finish his first Ironman race in 11h50:30 on 519th rank overall out of 1113 finisher. After a conservative swim in 1h29:07 in the Maas river, Jérôme remained concentrated […]
Very good performance by Claude Lucas at the AJ Bell Triathlon in London on sunday. Besides more than 230 athletes, Claude finished on excellent 3rd rank overall at the Olympic Plus race over 1.5-80-10km. His end time of 3h12:40 was only 2min down from winner Matt Chipping [GBR]. His split times : 1.5km in 22:28 […]
On sunday, Christian Weyland and Susanne Gutjahr raced the IM70.3 in Gdynia/Poland, a young and vigorously developing seaport town on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. Excellent results by both athletes today. Chris managed to classify on 7th rank in his AG M40-44 allowing him to qualify for the IM70.3 world championships in Nice […]
Trispeed Mamer and Performance Team organized a new edition of the Springwater Triathlon in Rosport. Several athletes from our team took the opportunity to race a non-drafting triathlon in the main olympic distance triathlon or the race at the shorter drafting promotional triathlon on sunday morning. Gavin Hodgson showed once again a very strong run […]
Eight athletes from our team tested their swim abilities at the 8th edition of the Open Water Challenge, organized by Swimming Luxembourg. This year’s edition was held in Lultzhausen for the first time, which was a good decision overall. This swim event is part of the national FLTRI triathlon tritour. On the 1000m, only participant […]
On the half TriStar distance over 0.5-50-5km, Charlotte de Groote raced and finished the event in Rorschach/Switzerland on sunday. Charlotte finished on 31st female rank in 2h48:02. Her split times : 500m swim in 12:29min, 50km bike in 2h03:06, 5km run in 27:08 RESULTS – TriStar55.5 Rorschach
Several X3M athletes raced the Ironman european championships in Frankfurt on sunday. Amongst nearly 3000 athletes, Benoit Joachim showed the best performance, especially his bike performance (4h56:59 and 25th bike time overall for 185km) was very impressive. Ben finished in 10h53:54 on 529th rank overall and 95th in M40. Georges Reding finished his 1st Ironman […]
UPDATE : Bob Haller had a severe bike crash on sunday’s final race and was brought to hospital for further checks. Unfortunately, he bended his left foot severely and broke his big toe on the left foot. We want to wish him a very fast recovery! Bob Haller délivre une des meilleures courses à pied […]
This weekend, the luxembourgish triathlon OD championships were incorporated in the 34th edition of the international triathlon Echternach. Hot and heavy weather conditions were forcing the athletes to dig deep in one’s energy resources… On saturday, our kids were aligned for the kids and youth championships. Noémie Ries managed to win the title in female […]
Several X3M athletes raced a 70.3 resp. a full distance triathlon this weekend. Tom Peiffer has chosen to race the inaugural IM70.3 in Lahti [FIN] on saturday. Due to mid-sommer nights, the race has been started at 16h00 local time and athletes were still finishing in daylight. Tom showed a steady performance and finished on […]
Claude Lucas confirmed his very good shape by winning the short distance SURE2SURE swim-run race in Lultzhausen on saturday together with his teammate Christian Krombach. Participants start and finish the race as teams of two, running and swimming the whole course together, helping each other where possible in an effort to be stronger than the […]
Very good performance by Sonny Eschette at the half Sharks Triathlon in Chimay [BEL], covering the medium distance of 1.9-81-21km. Sonny finished 4th female overall and 2nd in F40, her split times : 36:42min for the 1.9km swim, 2h46:19 for the bike segment and 1h33:33 for the run. Well done! RESULTS – Triathlon des Sharks […]