Year: 2018

Ironman Hawaii 2018 – bad luck for Chris Weyland

Oliver Godart and Chris Weyland have qualified for the 40th Ironman World championships in Hawaii during the year. Unfortunately, Oliver could not align at the starting line due to a severe bike crash a month ago. Christian had a good start with a consistent swim in the pacific ocean, followed by a very strong bike performance […]

Change club membership from Oct 16-31, 2018

The period during which individuals can change the membership of the club affiliated with the FLTRI is from Oct 16 to 31, 2018. The below text contains all relevant details as per Article 14 of the FLTRI rules and regulations: Les mutations d’un club à un autre peuvent être demandées du 16 au 31 octobre de […]

43. Foyer Vollekslaf Walfer

Results from the 43. Foyer Vollekslaf Walfer over 14.2km 80. Feltes Carlo – M LUX M50 01:02:37 152. Nilles Samuel – M LUX  M40 01:07:11 180. Wurth Claude – M LUX  M40 01:08:43 229. Blom Roy – M NLD  M55 01:10:23 440. Albuquerque Fé – POR  W45 01:18:56 RESULTS – 43. Walfer Vollekslaf

57th Route du Vin Half-Marathon

Several athletes raced the traditional half marathon ‘Route du vin’ in Remich, around 1500 athletes took the start at 15h00 on the flat track between Remich and Wormeldange. Firstly, best individual results go to our kids – Benedikt Strauss won the MAXI Route du raisin (2005-2008) over 1500m in a finish time of 5:20min net, […]

Sonny Eschette wins age group at Triathlon de Madine L

Sonny Eschette shows once again her good shape at the middle distance triathlon (1.9-80-20km) at lake de Madine [FRA]. She wins her age group VEF and classified 3rd woman overall with a steady race and strong performances on the bike and run. Congratulations! Tom Peiffer (164th) and Brice Faucheux (53rd) finished the same distance too, […]

20 km nature run in Bastogne [BEL]

On Sunday Guy Theissen and Marc Matgen raced the 20 km nature run in Bastogne (B). The running course, mainly, consisted out of large single tracks, country roads, a few ups and downs and the odd field crossing. Guy crossed the finish line ranked 41st overall out of 184 finishers, while Marc finished 142nd overall. Results: http://ultratiming.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/20KM-de-Bastogne-2018-20KM.pdf

2018 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Gold Coast [AUS]

Malgré les bourrasques de vent (à 45 km à l’heure), malgré l’eau houleuse, Bob Haller avait de bons sentiments avant le départ hier matin (heure luxembourgeoise). Et effectivement, pendant près de cinq quarts d’heure, le seul représentant grand-ducal au rendez-vous majeur de la saison, pouvait caresser l’espoir de réaliser ses objectifs : terminer à moins de […]

Triathlon XL Gerardmer

Our athlete Brice Faucheux raced the traditional middle distance triathlon in Gerardmer [FRA] over the XL distance (1.9-90-21km). He showed a steady performance over all 3 disciplines and finished on 13th rank in V1 age group and 112th overall (1492 starter, 1402 finisher) RESULTS – Triathlon Gerardmer XL 2018

70.3 WC South Africa – good results

Very good results from our 3 participants Susanne Gutjahr, Claude Lucas and Christian Weyland at the IM70.3 world championships in Port Elisabeth/South Africa. On saturday, Susanne finished the female age group race on excellent 65th rank in F40-44 out of 201 participants in this category. Her split times : 41:31 – 3h00:49 – 1h43:25 / […]

3 athletes in South-Africa

Susanne Gutjahr, Chris Weyland and Claude Lucas have qualified for the IM70.3 World Championships in Port Elisabeth/South Africa during the year and will now race on sunday amongst nearly 1800 athletes for potential WC age group titles. Good luck from the team!

Duathlon Weiswampach – Claude Lucas 11th

The 23rd edition of the Weiswampach triathlon has been downgraded to a duathlon as a result of algae blooms. The Sprint Triathlon, organized as a short duathlon over 5-20-2.5km, counted for the national sprint triathlon championships. Only participants from our team were Brice Faucheux, who ranked on an excellent 7th position overall and 1st in […]

Sponsorship renewal with Osteria di Niederanven

On behalf of X3M Triathlon Mersch, the committee and its members would like to thank the excellent italian restaurant ‘OSTERIA DI NIEDERANVEN‘ for the sponsoring deal renewal and their generous sponsorship of our team for the coming season. We would like to thank the whole team of the Osteria for their support and trust they put into […]

Sonny Eschette defied Embrun(Wo)Man

Tough but successful day for Sonny Eschette at one of the hardest long distance triathlon races in the world – the famous EmbrunMan over 3.8-188-42.2km. 2 loops in the ‘plan d’eau d’Embrun’, mountainous 188km with an altitude gain of approx. 5000m and a climb up to the ‘Col d’Izoard’ on 2346m and finally a hilly […]

Jérôme Barthels finished his 1st Ironman

Jérôme Barthels finished his 1st Ironman triathlon ever in Maastricht on sunday. A little anxious about this long distance, Jérôme Barthels stayed calm and raced steadily to finish his first Ironman race in 11h50:30 on 519th rank overall out of 1113 finisher. After a conservative swim in 1h29:07 in the Maas river, Jérôme remained concentrated […]

Claude Lucas 3rd at AJ Bell Triathlon London

Very good performance by Claude Lucas at the AJ Bell Triathlon in London on sunday. Besides more than 230 athletes, Claude finished on excellent 3rd rank overall at the Olympic Plus race over 1.5-80-10km. His end time of 3h12:40 was only 2min down from winner Matt Chipping [GBR]. His split times : 1.5km in 22:28 […]

Springwater Triathlon Rosport

Trispeed Mamer and Performance Team organized a new edition of the Springwater Triathlon in Rosport. Several athletes from our team took the opportunity to race a non-drafting triathlon in the main olympic distance triathlon or the race at the shorter drafting promotional triathlon on sunday morning. Gavin Hodgson showed once again a very strong run […]

New partnership with leeschtung.lu

X3M and Fitby S.à.r.l., represented by Yannick Bianchini, are proud to announce the signature of a new partnership deal. Fitby will offer our athletes the best bike and run field test scenarios to establish personal FTP thresholds and maximal performances, training zones and training recommendations. Bike tests can/will be done on personal bikes with the […]