Year: 2014

53. Route du vin Remich

Good performances by our athletes at the traditional Route du Vin in Remich. Best result of the day goes to David Claerebout who reached 35th rank overall in 1:19:25h net. Carlo Feltes and Cyril Henricot finished together in 1:36:23 (212th) resp. 1:36:24 for Cyril (213th). Claude Wurth ran on 492nd rank in 1:46:42 and Maria […]

Training resumes

On our first swim session after the summer break, 16 athletes met at the Campus Geesseknaeppchen pool. Besides the familiar faces of our club, some new athletes joined the group for the first common swim session – thanks for these enjoyable 120 minutes!

IM70.3 Lanzarote

Good performance of Emiliano Laruccia, who participated at the Ironman 70.3 Lanzarote this saturday. He finished 6th in his AG and 61st overall. With this result, Emiliano qualified for the 70.3 World Championships in Zell-am-See/Austria in September 2015. Congratulations from the team.

Carglass® Cologne Triathlon Weekend 2014

5 athletes from our club participated in the several triathlons offered during the Carglass® Cologne Triathlon Weekend 2014, going from Smart Sprint triathlon to Long distance triathlon. Best performance of the weekend goes to Chris Doyle – he managed to stay below the 10h-barrier for the first time by breaking his personal best time by […]

Challenge Almere-Amsterdam

Race report from Jean-Claude Schmitz : ‘Yes, I am an Ironman, but… Today’s race was amazing: i had a really good swim, an entered T1 after 1:07:00. I took my time to put on warm clothes, becauses it was really chilly. The bike was extremely hard because of the strong headwinds blowing on the coast, […]

Nathalie Bart at the Jungfrau Marathon

Nathalie Bart participated at the 22nd edition of the wellknown Jungfrau Marathon in Interlaken/Switzerland, one of the world’s most beautiful marathon courses! A scenery which you can’t find anywhere else. The course starts in Interlaken and goes into the Jungfrau Region via Lauterbrunnen, Wengen up to the Kleine Scheidegg with its famous mountains Eiger, Mönch […]

IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship

David Claerebout raced the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships in Mont-Tremblant [Canada] after having qualified at Aix-en-Provence in May. After a very fast swim in 29:04 and a hard bike ride in 2:20:19, David managed to run a 1:22:13 on half marathon to finish on excellent 29th rank in AG25-29 and 129th rank overall out of […]

Bob Haller 17th in Edmonton/Canada

At the triathlon World Championships in Edmonton/Canada, Bob Haller reached a very impressive 17th place in U23, only 2 minutes and 27 seconds back from french athlete Dorian Coninx. After the 1.5km swim in 18:01, he was only 24 seconds behind the first group. Once on the bike, he closed the gap to even lead […]

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 […]