Month: June 2019

Brice Faucheux raced shortened IM France

Due to extreme heat in Nice [FRA] with temperatures above 40 degrees, the organizer of the race decided to shorten the bike course to 152km and the run course to 30km ‘only’. Brice Faucheux showed a very steady performance with an end time of 8h50:06 and a 108th rank overall out of 2541 athletes. Brice […]

Half-Marathon & 10km Trier

Jean-Claude Schmitz and Emanuele Criscione had the great idea 😉 to run the half-marathon in Trier – not easy when the temperatures are above 30 degrees… Jean-Claude finished 55th (out of 614 finisher) in a good time of 1h33:03. Emanuele ran 1h38:39 and took 95th rank overall. RESULTS – 36. Int. Trierer Stadtlauf 2019 – […]

1/4 Triatlon door Brugge

On Saturday June 29th, Guy Theissen  raced the very beautiful “1/4 Triatlon door Brugge”, covering the distance of 1-45-10 km. The race took place at the very heart of the medieval city of Bruges. Soaring temperatures, with highs reaching up to 32 degrees, made it a very difficult day out for all of the 1000+ […]

Georges Reding finished IM70.3 Elsinore

Georges Reding raced the KMD IRONMAN 70.3 European Championships in Elsinore/Denmark on sunday. After a decent swim part in 36:13min, Georges rode a strong bike split in 2h24:58 and finished with a good run in 1h42:20 to rank himself 533rd overall out of 2237 athletes. His final race time : 4h52:35  (79th out of 267 […]

IM70.3 Remich – Claude Lucas = CHAMPION

Very good performance and results from the IM70.3 in Remich on sunday – Claude Lucas won his 1st national triathlon title on the LD championships by setting a personal best time of 4h13:40 After a good swim, a strong bike split and a steady run in 1h24, he finished 20th overall out of ~2500 athletes […]

IM70.3 Remich – 2 wins @IRONKIDS

Harry and Ben Smallbone won their resp. agegroups at the IRONKIDS races on saturday. Once again, Harry Smallbone won the KIDS-A category (2008/2009) with a lead of 12sec. His final time : 4:47min (38 finisher) For her 1st race ever, Julie Catherine Michels finished 18th in female KIDS-A race finishing in 6:27min – CONGRATULATIONS! The […]

Woogsprint Triathlon Darmstadt 2019

Our youth athletes raced the Woogsprint Triathlon Darmstadt together with their mates from the luxembourgish triathlon squad. In the category 2008/2009, Harry Smallbone managed to finish 2nd overall out of 38 athletes, covering the 200m/5000m/1000m in good 21:34min. He missed the win by only 3sec!!! Ben Smallbone finished on excelllent 4th rank overall in YouthB […]

10. Langstreckenschwimmen Losheim

Several X3M’ers took part in the open water swim event in Losheim [GER], covering mainly the 2500m distance. Best result goes to 2004-born Noémie Ries who won the overall female categorie in 40:32min. (16 female swimmers) In the male event, Andrea Caddeo took 4th rank overall in 39:54min, followed by Jean-Claude Schmitz on 7th rank […]

Olivier Godart wins AG in Samorin [SVK]

Olivier Godart scored another great result this season. At The Challenge Championship in Santorin/Slovakia, he won his age group (M40-44) in the Middle Distance race, and he finished 3rd Age Grouper overall. This means he repeated his 2018 result! Congratulations!! Very well done! Get all results at https:/thechampionship.de

ING (Half)-Marathon Luxembourg

Once again, stiflingly hot conditions to run a marathon resp. half-marathon on saturday evening. 25deg+ at the race start at 19h00 – not so easy for the 10000 runners. Gavin Hodgson raced the marathon distance and literally blew up due to the heat – he finished on 150th rank overall in 03:41:21 In the half-marathon, […]