Year: 2013

15. Erdgas Power Triathlon Illingen [GER]

Carlo Feltes and Sven Goergen took part in the 15th edition of the sprint triathlon in Illingen/Germany, covering a distance of 300m/20km/5km. Both enjoyed the good ambiance at this triathlon. Sven left the 25m pool in first position of his head and finished strongly on 29th position overall. Carlo Feltes finished on 53rd position overall […]

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

Training Event organized by our TeamOrga

Last saturday, our TeamOrga organized a very nice social training event in Remerschen. Unfortunately at the last moment, Stephane & Christophe Schroeder and his friend Yann didn’t manage to come. Here is a list of those that were in attendance: David Claerebout, Davide Verga, Chris Doyle, Chris Rola, Maria Peiretti (symbolic, she biked on her […]

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 […]

Resignation of Paul SARDAIN

Dear Members, As a founding and committee member of X3M Triathlon Mersch, please let me announce that Paul SARDAIN has resigned as Trainer and President of our organisation as of today due to different personal and sportive perceptions about the future focus of the club. Please let me thank Paul in the name of X3M […]

Committee and new TEAMORGA

Dear Members, Please let me introduce the new Committee of X3M Triathlon Mersch and a new group we’ve created called TEAM ORGA. The new committee members are Christian Rola as Vice President and Davide Verga as Technical Director. Both are respectively replacing Jean-Claude Schmitz and Timothee Weber, who left the committee recently due to private […]

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 […]

X3M meets Dirk Bockel

X3M Triathlon Mersch athletes meet Dirk Bockel at G’macher swimming pool, what a motivation Message from Dirk Bockel: For those who are interested to join a bike ride with Dirk on Sunday Morning in Remich at 10.00 am – just meet Dirk at the bridge in Remich. Dirk wants to ride on the 70.3 Bike […]

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