Category: RACEREPORTS

DNF at Ironman Copenhagen

Despite having not trained much for this event, Pascal Duhautpas aligned at the KMD Ironman Copenhagen on this chilly and windy sunday morning. After a decent 3.8km swim at the ‘Amager Strand’ in 1h06:24, Pascal tried to finish the 180km with a steady and controlled pace. In face of an energy drop between km120-140, he […]

David Claerebout 29th at Allgäu Triathlon

Once again good performance by David Claerebout this weekend. He aligned at the Allgäu Triathlon Immenstadt [GER] for his last preparation race before the 70.3 world championships in September. On this difficult course with a hilly bike track, David managed to show a good result by finishing 29th overall out of more than 300 participants. […]

Triathlon Weiswampach weekend

Carlo Feltes raced the 10km on sunday morning in 42:39 and placed himself onto 23th rank. Only half an hour later, he raced the sprint triathlon finishing on a decent 39th place. Susan Roch finished on 78th overall and 11th woman at the sprint triathlon in 1:32:19 RESULTS – Weiswampach 10km RESULTS – Weiswampach Promo […]

ETU Triathlon Cup Karlovy Vary [CZE]

Bob Haller raced the olympic distance After a tough swim in 18:05min and a hard bike part, Bob left T2 in 13th position. He managed to run one of his fastest 10km ever in 31:44min reaching a TOP10 ranking in this high level field. The race was won by A. Bryukhankov [RUS] leading Bob Haller […]

J.C. Schmitz = Weilburgman

Jean-Claude Schmitz has chosen the middle distance triathlon in Weilburg (north of Frankfurt/Main) as a test prior to his Ironman start in a couple of weeks. After a good 1.9km-swim in 23:13min in the ‘Lahn’ river, Jean-Claude left T1 on 58th position overall. Once on the bike, he pushed a little too hard blowing up […]

Results of the Äischdall-Trail

Several of our athletes raced the trail run in Äischdall covering 2 different distances. On the short 10km trail, Christopher Bernard showed the fastest club performance by finishing the race on 8th overall position (171 finishers) in about 42:01min. Nathalie Bart ran the half-marathon distance trail in 1:43:56 and finished 4th woman overall!!! Congratulations from […]

Victory at Triathlon La Gileppe

Great performance by Annette Jaffke at the olympic distance triathlon in La Gileppe [BEL]. Annette covered the 1.5km swim in the clear lake of La Gileppe in 22:57 – just about 30 seconds behind belgian Annabelle Pirotte, she started the 47km on the hilly bike course. In 1:34:36 for these 47km, Annette managed to keep […]

2014 Tiszaujvaros ITU Triathlon World Cup

Bob Haller finished on 30th rank in the final race of Tiszaujvaros ITU Triathlon World Cup in Hungary. In his first participation in a triathlon World Cup race ever, he managed to stay in the main pack exiting T2 but on the final 5km, he lost ground. On saturday, Bob qualified for this final race […]

IM70.3 Wiesbaden

The Sparkassen Finanzgruppe IRONMAN 70.3 European Championship has become legendary for its tough course and competitive field. Athletes start their day with a 1.9km swim in Lake Raunheimer Waldsee before hitting the spectacular 90km bike ride with lots of climbs and swift, technical decents. The 21.1km run leads the athletes through a four-loop rolling course […]

4th Open Water Challenge Weiswampach

Find here the relevant information concerning this year’s Open Water Challenge in Luxembourg RESULTS – 3000m Overall ranking 21. Sam Peters in 0:50:18 36. Daniele Peters-Flammang in 0:54:11 45. Emiliano Laruccia in 1:00:00 55. Carlo Feltes in 1:10:25 RESULTS – 5000m Overall ranking 3. Bob Haller in 1:08:41 10. Carole Kettenmeyer-Reuland in 1:19:40

ITU World Triathlon Hamburg 2014

Several athletes and supporters from X3M and Trilux participated in the ITU World Triathlon Hamburg 2014 – Age Group olympic distance. Find below the results of our athletes and friends : Place Name Swim Trans 1 Bike Trans 2 Run Finish 38 Peters Sam 00:26:21 00:04:04 01:03:12 00:03:06 00:40:08 02:16:50 807 Feltes Carlo 00:34:48 00:07:26 […]

2014 Tartu ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup

Bob Haller raced the 2014 Tartu ETU Sprint Triathlon European Cup in Estonia trying to gather some points for his international ranking. After a steady swim part and a good bike performance, he reached T2 together with the first main group despite having got a penalty. Bob managed to take 17th rank with a run […]

Trispeed Challenge

Trispeed Mamer organized its traditional multisports weekend named Tripeed Challenge. On friday evening, 102 runners started the challenge by a 10km run through the center of Mamer. Best X3M performance goes to David Claerebout who finished in 37:29 on 13th rank overall. RESULTS – 11.07.2014 – 10km Mamerlaf Second part of the challenge was a […]

Lux. championships at 30. Int. Triathlon Echternach

TRILUX organized the 30th edition of the international triathlon in Echternach last saturday. The weather wasn’t dignified for this event as it was raining cats and dogs the whole afternoon making the roads very slippery. Despite a bike crash on a slippery crosswalk, Bob Haller finished the luxemburgish championships on a well-deserved 3rd rank behind […]

IM70.3 Remich/Luxembourg

Once again, very good results from our team members at the 2nd edition of the IRONMAN 70.3 Luxembourg, held in the pittoresque village of Remich. 1800 starters were at the starting grid, this year under very hot weather confitions. RESULTS – Luxemburgish Championships LD Triathlon Annette Jaffke, despite having a hard day and suffering on […]

Aquathlon Verdun [FRA]

Carole Kettenmeyer-Reuland took 2nd female rank and 8th overall at the Sprint Aquathlon in Verdun [France]. She covered the 500m open-water swim and the 2.5km running part in 23:54min. Well done! Some impressions from the race :

10. Museltriathlon Grevenmacher

Good results from our athletes at this sunday’s sprint triathlon in Grevenmacher. Best performance came from Chris Doyle who finished on 25th rank overall and 6th Masters rank. Jean-Claude Schmitz took 28th place, Carlo Feltes 39th and Cyril Henricot 88th out of 124 finishers. Nathalie Bart finished 5th women overall in an end time of […]

Sprint Triathlon Epinal [FRA]

2 of our athletes raced the traditional sprint triathlon in Epinal [France] at the lake of Bouzey. Jean-Claude Schmitz finished on 42nd rank overall and 19th in his age group with an end time of 1:13:09, showing especially a good bike performance with an 18th time overall. Maria Elisa Peiretti took 14th rank in the […]

Annette Jaffke 4th in Bonn [GER]

Annette Jaffke showed a great performance at the 24. SWB Energie und Wasser Bonn-Triathlon, covering a distance of 4-60-15km. More than 900 starters found the way to the swim start from a ferry, which is one of the most exiting moments of this demanding middle distance triathlon. Annette Jaffke came out of the water on […]

IM70.3 Rapperswil

Emmi Duhautpas, our youngest member in the club, won the Aquathlon at the IRONKIDS Rapperswil/Switzerland on Saturday, May 31st, 2014. This so called Aquathlon consists of the two disciplines: 50m swimming and 300m running. First out of the water, she ran comfortably to her age group win in the so called ‘Fischli‘-category (boys&girls born in […]

ING Night Marathon 2014

Very good results and personal best times for several X3M’ers at the ING Night Marathon 2014 in Luxembourg. Nathalie Bart took 13th overall rank in the female category, running a personal best time in 1:32:36! Congratulations for this great performance. New personal best also for Cyril Henricot who ran 1:31:36.

Qualification for the IM70.3 World championships

David Claerebout raced the IM70.3 in Aix-en_provence [France] to grab a slot for the world championships in Mont-Tremblant. He was confident before the race after his good results during the last weeks. After a good swim part in 30:21min for the 1.9km, David reached T1 on 29th position in AG M25. Once on his TT […]

ETU Sprint European Cup Bratislava

The historic City of Bratislava hosted the first ETU Sprint European Cup of the season this weekend. It was the first of three sprint competitions scheduled for 2014 and over 130 athletes lined up on the start list, among the triathletes were 3 luxemburgish starters – Bob Haller, Neil Peters and Joé Miller. Despite some […]