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Records for the eight-time Ironman winner Marino Vanhoenacker

Marino Vanhoenacker was the star again at Ironman Austria. The Belgian athlete had to deal with high expectations and overfulfilled them. His fifth victory in a row at...

Timo Bracht is about to win his third European Champion Title/ Jan Raphael also starts in Frankfurt

(29.06.2010)

The Commerzbank athletes Timo Bracht and Jan Raphael celebrated their biggest successes so far at Ironman Germany. For the titleholder Timo Bracht there’s not much room for improvement: Last year, he won his second European Title and added a new course record on top. So it would be difficult for the German to be happy with a second place. In the past his teammate Jan Raphael already became sixth and fourth in Frankfurt. Since then he finished among...more

Timo Bracht: “The season ahead may be the most important of my life.”

(22.06.2010)

With the bar already set so high, there’s not much room above it for Timo Bracht to rise this season, the Commerzbank athlete having celebrated the most successful season of his career so far in 2009. After winning his second European Championship title in Frankfurt, an outstanding sixth place in Hawaii followed – not to mention the numerous top placings over half and short distances. “Clearly I travelled to Hawaii as one of the favourites,” assessed the ambitious Eberbacher. “But I was so dogged by bad luck in the swimming that by the first change many people had already written me off. In the end I fought back...more

Marino Vanhoenacker: Seven Ironman victories under his belt - working on his 5th Austria title

(21.06.2010)

Marino “Bink” Vanhoenacker seems to be achieving one Ironman victory after another. In his career to date, he has won seven contests involving 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42 km of running, the most recent being Ironman Malaysia at the end of February 2010. Having been unlucky two years in a row in Hawaii, at the start of the 2010 season, he chose to take part in a competition where the conditions would be just as uncomfortable as those on the Pacific island. In the oppressive heat and extreme humidity of Malaysia, the Commerzbank athlete finished almost half an hour ahead of the contestant in second place. Even he was surprised, as...more

TriGrandPrix Basque Country: Llanos wins, Hecht fourth

(14.06.2010)

600 competitors, including the cream of the world’s best triathletes, took part in the event, which started from the village of Getaria and involved a point-to-point sea swim back to the surf town of Zarautz. Competitors were greeted by perfect racing conditions as the horn sounded at 13:45 and the 40 strong woman’s field took to the sea...more

Timo Bracht third at City Triathlon Heilbronn/ Fourth place for Mathias Hecht in Zarautz

(13.06.2010)

The Commerzbank athlete Timo Bracht finished third at CityTriathlon Heilbronn behind Sebastian Kienle and Andreas Böcherer. Daniel Unger finished fourth after hard fights on the running course with Timo. “I am pleased with the race today”, said Timo. “I am on a good way for the Ironman European Championship in Frankfurt.” Mathias Hecht became fourth at the TriGrandPrix in Zarautz... more