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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...

Mathias Hecht will start at Ironman Arizona and Scott Neyedli at Ironman Western Australia

(09.11.2009)

The Commerzbank athletes Mathias Hecht and Scott Neyedli will start at further Ironman races this year before finishing their season. Mathias Hecht from Switzerland faces the early qualification for Hawaii 2010 at Ironman Arizona on November 22nd. Scott Neyedli is going to...more

Timo Bracht about the World Record of Michaela Kummer

(05.11.2009)

At the beginning of the year I got to know Oliver Kummer on Lanzarote. He was training with friends and several times we fighted together against the tough passat winds from the north/east on the island. Later on he asked me if I wanted to start with his wife at the Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon. The idea was to run side by side with Michaela who wanted to break the world record for blind marathon runners. Of course I said yes...more

Martin Lemberg: "What a blast!"

(27.10.2009)

I am still euphoric about this weekend. After I was told that I was going to be the third runner in the Commerzbank Triathlon Team I was really looking forward to that weekend. It will be not the run itself which I will remember the most but all the little things that happened beside the run. It was an once-in-a-lifetime experience to meet and greet some of the greatest athletes in the triathlon sport. I only knew them from TV or...more

Once in a lifetime experience for the lottery winner Martin Lemberg with the Commerzbank relay

(25.10.2009)

Martin Lemberg from Bernau near Berlin was the lucky winner who had the right to run with the Commerzbank triathlon relay at the Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon today. The 26-years-old was the third runner of the first Commerzbank triathlon relay and passed the baton on the double Hawaii Champion Normann Stadler. Together with Markus Fachbach from Darmstadt and Mathias Hecht from Switzerland, the four athletes passed the finish line...more

Michaela Kummer sets a new World Record for blind marathon athletes with the help of Timo Bracht

(25.10.2009)

Just two weeks after the tough race in Hawaii, Ironman European Champion Timo Bracht supported the blind runner Michaela Kummer to set a new World Record at the Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon. At the finish line, the clock showed 3:20:43 hours – almost 29 minutes faster than...more