Category: RACEREPORTS

3 national titles at the Triathlon Weiswampach

Strong performances once again from our athletes at the triathlon weekend in Weiswampach, counting for the luxemburgish triathlon championships in all categories. Best performance of the day goes to ANNETTE JAFFKE who took her 2nd national triathlon elite title after 2011!!! Finishing 2nd overall, she won the title by leading Sophie Margue and Elise Maes […]

Ostseeman Triathlon Glücksburg [GER]

Very promising results from Chris Doyle and Carlo Feltes this weekend at the ironman-distance triathlon OSTSEEMAN in Glücksburg/Germany. Chris Doyle managed to set a new personal record over the long distance with a final time of 10:08:22, reaching a 3rd age group rank in M50. He classified 50th overall out of 367 finishers. After a […]

Strong performance by David Claerebout in Marseille

Marseille, 2013 European Capital of Culture, has been chosen to host the first edition of the 5150 olympic distance triathlon. David Claerebout managed to perform very strongly in this race by finishing on 34th position overall out of 800 finishers. After a decent swim in 27’07”, he finished the bike part in 1:08’43” and ran […]

Open Water swim Weiswampach 3km

Chris Doyle swam the 3km Open Water Challenge in Weiswampach and finished the distance in 55’05” at 37th position out of 60 finishers. He missed the age group victory by less than 40″ and finally ranked 3rd in Masters category VE2. Well done Chris! RESULTS

Triathlon weekend Echternach

Overall victory by Annette Jaffke at the traditional 29th olympic triathlon in Echternach. Under hot weather conditions, she managed to take the lead shortly after the swim to win easily by more than 11min with an end time of 2h15’54”. Congratulations from the whole team and committee! Our 2 newest members, the twins Christophe and […]

Mittelmosel Triathlon Zell [GER]

Strong performances by our athletes at the Sprint and olympic distance triathlon in Zell [Germany] this sunday. Annette Jaffke finished on 2nd rank overall and won her age group by far. Chris Doyle finished on a good 19th position overall finishing 2nd in the M50 age group and breaking his personal best time on that […]

BMC IM70.3 Rapperswil aborted

Heavy rain and cold temperatures had changed the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland event in Rapperswil, Switzerland to a duathlon, but a landslide and a falling tree early on during the bike segment forced organizers to stop the race and abort the event. Samuel Nilles, David Claerebout and Pascal Duhautpas were on the bike course when the […]

Duathlon Patrick Farenzena Belvaux

Humble participation of X3M athletes today at the duathlon Belvaux/Ehlerange organized by CAB, only Carlo Feltes represented our team. After 1h45’03” under cold weather conditions, he finished on 42th position out of 58 finishers and took 9th rank in the masters category. RESULTS

18. Huesen-Beschlaf 12.2km

David Claerebout raced the first edition of the new ‘Huesen-Beschlaf’ in Strassen on Saturday. After 12.2km in 49’13”, he ranked on 12th position overall missing the Top10 by less than 30sec. Carlo Feltes (see picture) took 52nd rank out of 309 finishers. RESULTS

36th Tour de Dudelange 10km

6-year old Emmi Duhautpas won her first race (female age-group 2006 and younger) over the kids distance of 900m, well done! David Claerebout and Pascal Duhautpas ran the 10km on a flat course, but both had to fight against high temperatures of approx. 26deg! David finished 42nd, Pascal on 67th place with much slower times […]

DKV Urban Trail – Trail des Forts (27km)

Cyril Henricot and Maria Peiretti finished the very demanding “Trail des Forts (27km)”, middle distance run at this year’s Urban Trail in Luxembourg City. Cyril finished on 107th rank out of 400 finishers in about 2h27′, Maria ranked 8th women in the field by finishing in 2h47′. Congratulations to both of you and good regeneration… […]

35. Ouschterlaf Grevenmacher 10km

Pascal Duhautpas (78th), Samuel Nilles (88th) and Carlo Feltes (133rd) participated at the 35th edition of the well-known Ouschterlaf in Grevenmacher over 10km. Best performance of the day goes to Annette Jaffke (who raced for CAEG) – she finished in 38’06” on 44th rank and managed to take 3rd place of the female podium. David […]

Nordstadsemi Diekirch and Lux. championships 10km

During this weekend’s half marathon in Diekirch, FLA organized the lux. road championships over the classic distance of 10km. David Claerebout managed to run 38’24” under windy and chilly conditions and classified on 25th rank (lux. champs). Maria Peiretti finished on 11th female rank with a net end time of 50’57”. Best X3M performance of […]

6th X-Duathlon Trier

Sarah and Oliver Gorges raced the 6th edition of the X-Duathlon in Trier/Germany. Sarah won the junior female age group (5km – 12.5km MTB – 2.5km) and finished on overall rank 54 out of 80 athletes in the so-called ‘Volksduathlon’. Oliver, who raced for his german team RSG Montabaur, won the Youth B age group […]

Aquathlon Vittel [FRA]

Gabriel raced the Aquathlon Vittel [FRA] together with a selection of the luxemburgish national junior team. After a successful preliminary race, Gabriel reached 8th position in the 1/4-finals behind some very strong guys. Nevertheless a good performance, congratulations! RESULTS

18th Postlaf Gasperich

Season opening in Gasperich over 10km at the traditional ‘Postlaf’ – more than 2200 runners were present at the starting grid. Best result of the X3M athletes goes to Pascal Duhautpas, who finished in 41’33” on 173th rank, followed closely by Samuel Nilles in 41’55” and Cyril Henricot, who did a personal best time of […]

National Cross Champs in Esch [LUX]

Oliver and Sarah Gorges took part in the 97. national cross-country championships in Esch/Alzette [LUX]. Oliver reached 2nd rank in the minimes category going over 2740m, staying only 13s behind the winner Thierry Kieffer (CSL). Oliver managed to finish the overall hibernal ranking on 2nd rank as well. Sarah raced the female juniors category over […]