Category: RACEREPORTS

ITU World Triathlon Hamburg

Maria Elisa Peiretti raced her first olympic distance triathlon on sunday at the ITU World Triathlon Hamburg. She finished the race in 03:13:05 on 79th AG rank and 2791st overall rank. CONGRATULATIONS! Her husband Chris Rola finished the same triathlon in 02:44:03 on 213th AG rank and 1141st overall rank.   

Open Water Championships Weiswampach

Several athletes took the opportunity to perform in Luxembourg’s only Open Water event, held at the lake of Weiswampach. Please find the results below : 5km Championships 1:23:54 Kettenmeyer-Reuland Carole (4th female) 3km 0:53:22 Sam Peters (22.) 0:53:25 Flammang Danièle (24.) 0:57:40 Jungen Alain (31.) 1:13:11 Feltes Carlo (50.) 500m 0:09:22 Duhautpas Pascal (24.) FULL […]

Triathlon St. Ingbert [GER]

Carlo Feltes and Guy Theissen raced the ‘Jedermann’-Sprint Triathlon in St. Ingbert/Germany. Carlo did quite well by finishing in 1:06:03 on a 8th place overall out of 132 finishers and 2nd rank in AG M45. Guy Theissen finished on 35th position. Former X3M-athlete Sven Goergen finished on 3rd rank and won the AG category M30. […]

31. Triathlon Echternach

For the majority of the field at the 31. Triathlon Echternach, this year’s edition was a particularly tough and slow year of racing. All three disciplines were impacted by heat (38deg) and clearly slower than normal. Nothing slows a race more than hot conditions, all the more so if they’re sufficient to result in a […]

National champs @ Duathlon Mamer

This year’s national duathlon championships were organized by Trispeed during the traditional 18th Int. Duathlon Mamer, covering the short distance of 6.3km-32.2km-4km. Only a few of our athletes participated at this race. Strongest performance of the day goes to Chris Doyle on 9th rank overall allowing him to win, once again, the M50 age group. […]

10km Widdebierglaf Mensdorf

Emmi and Pascal Duhautpas raced the hilly ‘Widdebierg’ race in Mensdorf last saturday under hot conditions. In the kids race (2006-2009) over 1km, Emmi did very well by finishing 1st girl and 7th overall in a little less than 4:30min. Well done! Pascal raced the second 10km race after his knee surgery. On this hilly […]

Indeland Triathlon

Pierre Rossler raced the 8th ‘Indeland’ olympic distance triathlon in Aldenhoven between Aachen and Cologne/Germany on sunday. Out of the water on 5th place overall, Pierre performed steadily to finish this race on very good 19th rank overall out of 140 finishers. Unfortunately, our second X3M contestant, Alain Jungen had to abandon the race due […]

FULL HOUSE for X3M @ IM70.3 Luxembourg

GREAT results on saturday by our athletes at the 3rd edition of the IM70.3 Luxembourg, held in and around Remich at the border of the Mosel. After some very steady and impressive performances, Olivier Godart and Danièle Peters-Flammang took the national LD triathlon titles – CONGRATULATIONS! In addition, Danièle won her age group W45-49. Olivier […]

Baku 2015 European Games Triathlon

Bob Haller has been selected to represent Luxembourg at the first edition of the European Games in Baku/Azerbaijan. The triathlon event over the olympic distance was held at the Bilgah Beach, the weather was very nice but hot with temperatures over 30 degrees. After a good swim part in 19:33min and a fast transition, Bob […]

Sprint triathlon Grevenmacher

Some of our athletes raced the sprint triathlon in Grevenmacher today. Best performance goes to Carlo Feltes who finished on honourable 30th position overall out of 102 finishers. Only 45 seconds behind, Jérôme Barthels (34.) and Yves Koch (35.) finished together, both with an end time of 1:10:27. Alain Jungen came in on 57th rank […]

Antoine Lallier @ the Granfondo Stelvio

Antoine Lallier has raced this week-end the cyclo-sportive Granfondo Stelvio (medium route, 138 km +3000m of ascent). Nothing special to hope after one week of cycling in the Dolomites, but Antoine ranked 97th overall out of 716 finishers (51st just for the climb of the Stelvio). RESULTS – Granfondo Stelvio Santini

IM70.3 Kraichgau [GER]

Another professional race start for David Claerebout at the IM70.3 Kraichgau in southern Germany. Unfortunately, David couldn’t show his best performance that day and finished on a mediocre 19th rank in the PRO category. Samuel Nilles and Claude Wurth raced in the age group category M35-39 and finished both on satisfying 467 resp. 1082th rank […]

Springwater Triathlon Rosport

Strong attendance and excellent results from our X3M members at the first edition of the Springwater triathlon in Rosport/Luxembourg [1.7-42-8km]. Athletes had to suffer quite a lot on the hilly bike course and due to the hot weather conditions. Nevertheless, Sam Peters managed to finish on great 8th overall and 2nd in M30-34 followed by […]

ING Marathon & Semi Luxembourg

All in all very good results from our athletes at the ING Night Marathon & Half-Marathon Luxembourg – actually most of the athletes achieved new personal best times on this demanding and hilly racetrack. Best performance of the evening goes to Samuel Nilles, who smashed his personal best to 1:26:05 to reach a 84th rank […]

2015 ETU Challenge Rimini

Emiliano Laruccia participated at the 2015 ETU Challenge Rimini triathlon counting for the european Championships over the Half IM Distance. Emiliano performed very well to finish on a satisfying 84th rank in M1 category and 401st overall position. SWIM : 00:40:41 BIKE : 03:13:27 RUN : 01:34:22 END TIME : 05:36:03

IM70.3 St. Pölten [AUT]

3 of our athletes raced the 9th edition of the IM70.3 at the Lower Austrian capital St. Pölten. The swim course in St. Pölten includes a very special highlight – it splits at two lakes. The start is at the Viehofner lake, after a short shore leaf, you throw yourself right back into the second […]

10km races in Luxembourg

Several of our athletes participated at the 10km races in Luxembourg, one in Berdorf on 16th of may and one in Clervaux on the 17th. Best performance goes to Danièle Flammang, who won the female category in Berdorf. And last but not least a personal best time for Samuel Nilles and Claude Wurth in Berdorf […]

Beaujolais Challenge Trail

Antoine Lallier raced the “Beaujolais Challenge Trail” last week-end in France. It was a recovery race one month after his Boston Marathon. With no particular goal, Antoine finished the 24 km loop in 1:58:15, 14th overall out of 338 finishers. RESULTS – Beaujolais Challenge Trail

Olivier Godart 8th @IM70.3 Vietnam

Great performance once again from our professional athlete Olivier Godart in the coastal city of Danang/Vietnam, well known for its pristine beaches, UNESCO world heritage sites and numerous tourist attractions. Under very hot and humid conditions, Olivier managed to finish 8th overall out of 941 finishers with a smashing bike split of 2h09min [average of […]

Annette Jaffke lux. national champion

Once again, very good results from our athletes at the Powerman Hosingen, hosting the luxembourgish national championships over the long distance duathlon. [10-60-10km] Annette Jaffke managed to grab another national title. Congratulations from the entire team! Several male X3M athletes showed good results – especially David Claerebout, who was in the lead with 5km to […]

Bob Haller raced ITU Chengdu Worldcup

Long trip – average outcome. Bob Haller raced the Chengdu ITU Triathlon Worldcup in China this saturday and finished on an average 56th rank overall. Unfortunately, Bob wasn’t able to show his best performance in the running part where he was slower than usual. Nevertheless, Bob reached a personal best time on the olympic distance […]

Pierre Rossler raced Sprint Triathlon Saint-Hubert

On sunday, Pierre Rossler raced the sprint triathlon in Bertrix/Saint-Hubert [BEL] covering 750m swimming, 20km on the bike and two 2.5km running laps, counting for the francophonic belgium championships. After a very good swim in 11min (21. overall), Pierre raced steadily to finish on good 51st rank overall out of 178 finishers. His end time […]

27th Duathlon Patrick Farenzena Ehlerange

Good results from our 6 participants at the oldest duathlon in Luxembourg. Best result goes to David Claerebout, who reached 4th overall with the fastest bike split of all competitors. Classification of our X3M members : 4. David Claerebout 1:26:16 (2nd AG M25) 17. Chris Doyle 1:33:42 (Winner AG M50) 25. Sam Peters 1:34:57 40. […]

Bob Haller 32th @ ITU World Triathlon Cape Town

First ITU World Triathlon at Cape Town/South Africa for Bob Haller. Due to very cool water temperatures, the olympic distance’s swim part had to be shortened to 750m (1 lap). [Official water temperature was 11.9°C, air temperature was 23.3°C] After a good and steady swim, Bob ran into T1 after 9:04min, only 30 seconds behind […]