On Sunday Marc Matgen and Guy Theissen raced the Jedermann Radrennen over 68 Km in and around the city of Cologne. On a beautiful circuit and lots of spectators both athletes crossed the finish line in a large pack just underneath the 2 hours mark. Results: www.ruk.de
Claude Lucas raced the middle distance bike race at the cycling classics ‘3 ballons’ in Luxeuil les Bains [FRA]. On his birthday, he showed his good biking shape and finished on these demanding and hilly 105km in 3h35min on 12th rank overall. Scratch : 12th overall in 03:35:38.56 Age group : 3rd in M18-29 The route took the […]
The teachers of the primary school of Leudelange invited our club to give an initiation into triathlon resp. duathlon to the kids from cycle 3.1 to 4.2 (8 to 12 years). During the ‘Schoulsportdaag’ on wednesday, the kids were shown different sports – duathlon was introduced for the first time with a hell lot of fun for everybody. Isabelle Klein […]
Claude Wurth raced the IM70.3 Kraichgau on sunday, despite not having recovered from an illness with antibiotics. Unfortunately, he suffered a lot during the race and he never could show his real strength. Nevertheless, he crossed the finish line – congratulations for your IRON WILL! M40-44 : 174. Wurth, Claude LUX 0:45:05 (1.553.) 2:51:30 (868.) […]
Excellent results today from the 2nd edition of the ‘Spring Water Triathlon Rosport’. Due to the heavy floods in the last days resulting in strong currents in the river Sûre, the organizers cancelled the swim part and exchanged the swim with a short running split. Under very poor weather conditions, several X3M athletes won their age groups […]
On the outskirts of the picturesque town of Dinant (B), Guy Theissen raced the over 0,5-24-5 Km. Fortunately the event had not been cancelled due to heavy downpours and gales on the previous night. However the swimming part turned out to be a rather cold affair with water temperatures reaching a maximum of 13,6 degrees. […]
Claude Lucas and Pascal Duhautpas raced the olympic distance triathlon in Messein [France], counting for the Lorraine D3 championships. Fortunately, the race was held under perfect weather conditions with mild temperatures and no rain. After an excellent swim (2x750m plus 200m running part to T1), both athletes left the water on 11th (Pascal : 24:45min) […]
The traditional long distance triathlon of Belfort (city in northeastern France in the Franche-Comté région situated between Lyon and Strasbourg) was held this saturday. On the classic 1.9km-87km-21km, Jean-Claude Schmitz showed a steady performance with a very good swim. The swim part (2 loops with an australian exit) was held at the ‘base de loisirs […]
A big group of X3M athletes showed up at Luxembourg’s biggest running event – the ING Half and Full Marathon through the surroundings and the town center of Luxembourg-city. On the marathon distance, Stéphane and Christophe Schroeder set a new personal best time with 3:13:46 each, the way it ought to be for twins!!! […]
Good overall participation at the traditional sprint triathlon in Grevenmacher. Under nearly perfect weather conditions, a big group of X3M athletes participated in the different series of this first seasonal triathlon in Luxembourg. In the kids races, Ben Langer took 2nd overall in KIDS-B, Noa Langer won her age group in KIDS-A and last but […]
Bob Haller aligned at the 10km road race in Strasbourg this sunday to check his current running performance over this distance. With no lack of strength, Bob ran steadily to finish in very strong 30:52min net (for 10.1km!!!), setting a new personal best time and a new 10km club record. This was his first time […]
Great result from Maria Elisa Peiretti at the IM70.3 Vietnam this weekend. Together with her husband Chris Rola, who could not race due to some health issues, Maria finished her first IM70.3 race with a very impressive performance. After a steady swim part in the open water around Danang (45:29), she showed a strong bike […]
In Cagliari, the italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, Bob Haller raced another triathlon world cup race over the sprint distance of 750m-20km-5km. After a pretty good swim in 9:15min, Bob left the mediterranean sea out on 15th place with 22sec behind french athlete Aurelien Raphael. Bob integrated the leadpack after […]
The national duathlon long distance championships were integrated in the Powerman Luxembourg in Hosingen. The track is not an easy one with a lot of altitude meters, and the strong winds on sunday afternoon made it even more difficult for the athletes. National titles go to Christian Krombach (Trispeed) and our trainer ISABELLE KLEIN. Congratulations. […]
Excellent result from Pascal Duhautpas at the half-marathon trail in Geichlingen. On a very difficult and muddy track with an altitude gain of more than 525m, Pascal managed to grab a 2nd rank overall in 1:33:01h and additionally, he took the win in M40. On sunday, Pierre Rossler ran the half-marathon in Beckerich. He took […]
On Sunday May 1st, Guy Theissen raced the Eschborn-Frankfurt Jedermann bike race on the 70 Km distance counting for the German cycling cup. On a sunny but windy day, Guy crossed the finish line ranked 338th overall out of 987 finishers (106th AG Seniors2) Results www.eschborn-frankfurt.de
CA Belvaux organized the national short distance championships in Ehlerange over the distance 10-40-5km on sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, the weather conditions were extremely severe with hail storms, strong winds and 3°C…. Numerous athletes had to drop out of the race due to cramps and hypothermia… Best result goes to Claude Lucas on 10th rank overall. […]
Bob Haller finished on an excellent 22nd rank overall at the Triathlon World Series Cape Town, the highest triathlon race series. Find below his personal race report of the race on sunday : Bob Haller erneut bärenstark (trotz grosser Probleme beim Schwimmen) 22. Platz unter 61 Startern, Bob schlägt Weltklasseathleten wie Sven Riederer (SUI-Ranking ITU […]
Excellent result from our newest member Elisabeth Gaudron at the Kalkar ETU Duathlon European Championships [Germany]. Participating in the short distance duathlon over the distance of 5-20-2.5km, Elis managed to finish 11th overall and winning the F30 category.. WELL DONE and CONGRATULATIONS to you!
12 athletes from X3M aligned at the DKV urban trail through the city centre of Luxembourg. A new participation record with more than 3000 runners was set on sunday. On the shortest distance (13km), the best result goes to Gavin Hodgson on 7th rank overall in 52:35min. Place 103 goes to Jérôme Barthels in 1:03:35, […]
Marc Matgen ran the 10 miles in Antwerp/Belgium last weekend. Within a big field of more than 20000 runners, Marc performed quite well with an overall ranking of 4584 and an end time of 01:19:10.
Good performances of one of our youngest team members – 11 years old Noa Langer. She participated at the Challenge Tageblatt event in Dudelange on Saturday, a multi-sports athletics events for kids born from 2003 to 2006. Over 800m, Noa finished 8th (out of 25) in 3’19″50 – on the long jump, she set a […]
Olivier Godart finished 28th overall at the Ironman South-Africa in a strong PRO field. Racereport from Oli’s Blog : olivetreesports.com The event I was in over the weekend was the Ironman South Africa, one of the big 4 events, the continental P 4000 championships with packed deepest fields possible. Held in Port Elizabeth, just south […]
X3M committee is pleased to announce that last weekend, X3M member, national referee and FLTRI board member Antoine De Groote participated at an ITU/ETU seminar held in Arnhem, Netherlands, for becoming a Level 1 Technical Official of the ITU. By passing his exam, Antoine became one of 4 luxembourgish ITU referees, beside Eugène Kraus (Level […]
The next 10km road race in the FLA calendar was held in Dudelange this afternoon under great, sunny weather conditions. 201 runners finished this traditional 39th edition through the center of Dudelange. Best X3M performance goes to Jérôme Barthels, who finished on 25th rank overall (3rd in M30) in a new personal best time of […]