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 […]

New sponsor deal signed!!!

The committee of X3M Triathlon Mersch is proud to announce a new sponsorship deal signed with C-IMMO Compagnie Immobilière, based in 1 rue Gaston Diederich in Luxembourg. We wish to thank Mr. Klopp Francois and Mr. Bäumler Martin for this generous goodwill. Your support is not something we take likely and is very much appreciated […]

First Open-Water swim training

The X3M Triathlon Mersch Team did it. Open water swim under wet and cold conditions last Saturday in Remerschen. A simulation of the transitation swim to run was done right after the Swim training. Just join us next time, enjoy the training and have a smile on your face 😀

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 […]

Hiring of a new running coach

X3M Triathlon Mersch has been founded in 2010 and is counting currently around 40 active members, and the proportion is increasing. In order to reinforce the team and to ensure a better support for our members, X3M Triathlon Mersch is searching for a new running coach to supervise our youngest members as of the age […]

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 […]

Indoor Aquathlon Coque

This weekend, the 1st edition of the Aquathlon (swim and run event) was organized by the luxemburgish triathlon federation FLTRI at the sports center Coque/Kirchberg. Athletes of different countries took the chance to test their speed on very short distances of 250m swimming and 1km running. Our team was represented by Gabriel Sardain, David Claerebout […]

Cross-Run Grevenmacher

Age group victory by Oliver Gorges and 3rd rank in AG for Sarah Gorges – once again very good performances of our athletes at the next to last cross of this hibernal season in Grevenmacher. Oliver won the ‘MINIMES’ category over 2880m in 10’51” out of 31 athletes at the starting grid. Sarah finished her […]

CISM Day Run 2013 in Luxembourg

Keeping the tradition and entirely integrated to CISM (Conseil International du Sport Militaire) motto ‘Friendship through sport’, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg organized the CISM Day Run for the 8th consecutive time. Nowadays, Luxembourg is one of the 4 countries that have organized the “CISM Day Run” every year since the first edition in 2006. As […]