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Looking for a hairy best buddy for life?

Oct 2020

Then keep checking out our Instagram page 112fuertiere ! Here we constantly introduce dogs from our dog shelter that are hoping for a home & family of their own.Sometimes it's love at first sight - and sometimes it takes a second or third glance :-). Adopt, don't shop.

Thank you to the heroes of our daily life

Oct 2020

Many thanks to our firefighters and rescue services, who bravely face up to emergencies and dangers and fight tirelessly for the community and for the lives of others. At CASCO, we use our many years of know-how for the development and manufacturing of their personal protective equipment, so that they are protected in the best possible way during field operations.

FACE PROTECTION

May 2020

CASCO had reacted to the emergency situation at an early stage and changed parts of the production to produce missing face protection, eye protection and mouth/nose masks at our own factory in Europe.

Casco Activ 2 is test winner of Stiftung Warentest & ADAC 5/2017

May 2017

Casco Activ 2, with the test rating of 1.7, is test winner of the latest bicycle helmet test of the German consumer magazine Stiftung Warentest and the ADAC (German automotive Club), both published in May 2017.

CASCO wins twice

June 2016

After CASCO has already won the helmet test of Stiftung Warentest, Germany´s No. 1 consumer magazine, in 2012 with the model ACTIV-TC, CASCO now is again test winner of Germany's most influential consumer magazine (6/2016).

Sieg für Tine Holst bei IM Lanzarote

May 2016

Das kontinuierliche und harte Training von Tine Holst sollte sich mit einem Sieg beim Ironman Lanzarote bezahlt machen: Alles hat beim Rennen gepasst, sowohl psychisch als auch physisch konnte Sie ihre Leistungen abrufen.

Foto: © Eamonn Deane

Denise Schindler collecting medals in para-cycling

May 2016

“What a great feeling when all the hard work shows its efforts.” says Denise Schindler. She is very happy about winning a gold medal in the road race. A gap of 8 seconds the end makes this even better.

Foto: © Hr. Bergemann

Grabosch and Hinze successfull at Grand Prix in Tula/ Russia

May 2016

The U-23 female sprinters started successfully in the International Grand Prix of Tula (UCI category) in Russia. The world champions in the team sprint (U 19) of the previous year Pauline Grabosch and Emma finished third in the Team Sprint.

Foto: ©Oliver Kremer

Four victories for Vico Merklein in Handbiking

Mai 2016

There were two victories at the German Championships in handbiking for Vico Merklein: In the 20 km time trial, he rode with an average speed of 40 km/h to the target and won this race.

Foto: ©Sirotti.

Alexander Foliforov (Team Gazprom -Rusvelo) wins the 15th stage at Giro d´Italia.

Mai 2016

This is a historic victory for the Gazprom-RusVelo in Giro d’Italia.

Svenja Thös 2nd at Ironman Mallorca 70.3 (age group)

May 2016

Cold, 15 ° C, continuous rain and wind gusts - with these conditions the athletes had to fight with at the 70.3 Ironman Mallorca. When swimming, jellyfish attacks also complicated the already arduous competition.

Invitation to the RETT MOBIL 2016

May 2016

Giro d’Italia 2016

May 2016

Wishing our team Gazprom - RusVelo good luck participating at the 2016 Giro d'Italia! The 99th running of the tour of Italy will start in Apeldoorn on May 6th. The Giro d´Italia is the next most important stage race in cycling after „Tour de France“ and counts together with the Spanish „Vuelta a Espana“ and „Tour de France“ to the three „Grand Tours“.

Deák Zsombor 2nd at Triathlon Indonesia

April 2016

During his training camp, Deák attended the international Ironman 70.3 race in Indonesia.

Ironman African Championships: Lucy Gossage third

April 2016

For a longtime she had put her start to question: the reaction of the almost healed Achilles injury was uncertain. And so the outcome of the competition so was not predictable. But at the end she should be rewarded with a podium finish.

Success for the rad-net ROSE team

April 2016

Mario Vogt of the rad-net ROSE team showed a great solo ride in Schweinlang (Germany), which led him to victory at the end. The 24-year-old had attacked after around ten kilometers, put quickly a larger gap to the field and did his rounds from now on alone. After 90 km alone in the leading position Mario Vogt won his first race after his bad crash in May 2015.

Johnannes Boe wins gold

February 2016

Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR) won the gold medal in 15 km mass start on the last competition day of the Biathlon World Championships. Johnannes had only one mistake, but with a time of 37:05,1 he finished 2.8 seconds ahead of Martin Fourcade (FRA), who had as well one mistake. Ole Einar Björndalen, ...

Norwegian relay wins

The Norwegian team of Ole Einar Björndalen, Tarjei Boe, Johannes Thingnes Boe and Emil Hegle Svendsen won the gold medal in the men's relay of 4 * 7.5 km. The winning time was 1:13:16.8, they needed six to reloaders and finished 11.5 seconds ahead of the 2nd place.

UCI Track bike-World Championships: More medals for CASCO Athletes

Domenic Weinstein (GER) is vice-world champion in the individual pursuit. He was leading up to 500m before the end, but then he had to pay tribute to the high pace and was caught up. In the qualification he already improved his personal best time and also the German by 1.2 seconds. In the women´s Sprint Kristina Vogel wins the bronze medal and with that the third medal these Championships in London....

2 World Champions at day 2

Germany was the big winner of the second competition day at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in London. Kristina Vogel and Joachim Eilers added two more medals to the german medal account. Kristina won the women´s Keirin competition and Joachim Eilers dominated the 1000m time trial of the men. With a time of 1: 00,042 minutes he set new track record. Congratulations!

UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2016 - first medals

Day 1The two riders Daria Shmeleva and Anastasia Voinova (RUS) won the first place in the women's team sprint. In the small final Bronze Kristina Vogel and her teammate Miriam Welte (GER) win bronze against Australia.

Lucy Gossage second at Ironman New Zealand

The Ironman New Zealand was originally considered as a test after a prolonged illness and injury. She wasn´t really certain whether or not she would finish. After a decent swimming (3.8 km) Lucy Gossage was in 12th place. During the subsequent cycling she rode better than ever, and set a course record over the 180 km. At second position she changed to the running part. Here, the outcome of the race should be decided. Due to an

2x silver for Ole Einar Björndalen

Biathlon-WM (Oslo) Biathlon World Championships (Oslo) In the men's 10 km Sprint, Ole Einar Björndalen (NOR) showed that he can keep up with the younger athletes: with a clean shooting he was only 26.9 seconds behind Martin Fourcade in the target. That was the silver medal at the end. With two penalty laps and a sovereign performance, Ole Einar Björndalen was able to defend the second place also at 12, 5 km pursuit. The race was exciting until..

Biathlon World Championships: 3rd place for Norway

BAt the opening race of the Biathlon World Championships in Oslo, the Norwegian team won the first medal. With 10 reloads and 14.4 seconds deficit the mixed relay with Tarjej and Johannes Boe won the bronze medal. Tarjei in an interview: I'm "90% satisfied with the bronze medal, and the remaining 10% I will do next week!"

Johannes Boe is unstoppable

Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR) has proved to be in best form at the world cup in Presque Isle (USA) just before the World Championships in Oslo: He won confidently the 10 km Sprint without any mistakes and with 27 seconds ahead of Anton Shipulin (RUS). In the 12 km pursuit race he had to accept 2 failures. Nevertheless, he crossed the finish line with only 24 seconds behind the Frenchman Martin Fourcarde on an excellent...

Norway and the Czech Republic win in relay

Presque Isle (United States) In the men relay over 4 x 7.5 km the Norwegian team was for a pretty long time part of the midfield, with about 50 seconds behind the leader. As 3rd relay athlete Johannes Boe brought the team back to the top. Although he needed even 3 reloads, he even cloud pass on in first position thanks to his outstanding skiing performance. Six teams were just one minute apart. Tarjei Boe was. Gabriela Soukalova un...

Hattestad on the second place

DOla Vigen Hattestad (NOR) showed a great performance at the Cross Country World Cup in Stockholm (SWE). With his second place in the 1.2 km Sprint classic he achieved there the best result of the Norwegian team. At the World Cup before in Drammen (NOR) he already perform well with the second place in 1.2 km Sprint classic.

Soukalova has winning run

At the last World Cup just before the World Championship Gabriela Soukalova from Czech once again proved to be in best form in Presque Isle (USA). Her perfect shooting and a strong skiing performance helped her to the sprint victory over the distance of 7, 5 km in 20:02.2. She also couldn´t be beaten in 10 km pursuit and triumphed with 3 failures and an advantage of 34 seconds. She won in 31:24.6. With these victories she is No...

Successful track cycling World Cup in New Zealand

The German track cyclists achieved three victories at the second World Cup in Cambridge (NZL): Kristina Vogel in the Sprint, Joachim Eilers in the Keirin and the Team Sprint, René Enders, Max Niederlag with Joachim Eilers. And there were more podium places: silver medal for Maximilian Levy in Keirin, in the Sprint Max Niederlag and Maximilian Levy at the places two and three and in the team pursuit with Kersten Thiele, Theo...

Markus Kölz wins at German Masters Stuttgart:

What a jump-off, what a finale at the 22nd BW-Bank Indoor Championships (show jumping level S ***). Markus Kölz on Etiche de Fribois started as last athlete in this competition and finished the course without any mistakes. The clock stopped at 40.93 seconds and Markus Kölz could celebrate.Also on Etiche de Fribois Markus Kölz wins the prize of Schmidt sports gloves GmbH, in the show jumping level S *.Congratulations!

Christian Kramer 2nd at Ironman 70.3 Taiwan

Christian Kramer has returned impressively at the Ironman 70.3 Taiwan with a 2nd place and Déak Zsombor (ROU) finished at a successful 8th place.In Taiwan conditions for athletes were anything but easy. The strong wind caused the organizers to shorten the bike course to 77 kilometers.At the southern tip of Taiwan Kramer came out of the water in the third position, after 24 minutes. Together with the fastest swimmers Harry...

Victories for Team Marseille 13 KTM in China!

After his victory at stage 1, Evaldas Siskevicius won also the general and the points classification at the Tour of Yancheng Coastal Wetlands (2.2/CHN). His teammate Martin Laas became second in the points classification. At all there were 2 stages.The Team Marseille 13 KTM won as well the team classification.Congratulations!!

Philipp Schober wins "Grand Prize of Saxony"

Philipp Schober won the Championships of the “Deutsche Kreditbank AG”, he received roaring applause. With Zandigo TS he dominated the show jumping level S with jump-off** without penalty points, in a time of 41.29sec against the competitors. In the point jumping level M** Ellen Kölz achieved with Picobella and 65.00 Punkte in 55.49sec the 3rd place. Around 12,500 visitors total followed the races at the Grand Prix of Sachsen...

Victories at the Track Cycling World Cup in Cali (COL)

The German sprint team started with a victory in the World Cup season of track riders: At the first competition in Cali (COL) René Enders, Max Niederlag and Joachim Eilers (GER) won in the finals of the team sprint in 43.095 seconds against Poland (43.748). Jeffrey Hoogland (NL) was with his team third. In the women's sprint team, the European champions Daria Shmelewa and Anstassia Voinowa won in the small final....

UEC Track European Championships in Grenchen (SUI)

The elite riders fought from October 14 to 18 in various disciplines for the European title, about 8,000 visitors have been at this championship.In women´s sprint 3 CASCO athletes have been on the podest: RusVelo rider Anastasiya Voinova (RUS) was beaten only by Elis Ligtlee (NL) and won the silver medal. In the small final Kristina Vogel fought and could win the bronze medal with with 2: 0. In men´s sprint Jeffrey Hoogland (NL) und...

3rd place for Ricarda Lisk at the Ironman 70.3 Los Cabos

At the Ironman 70.3 Los Cabos (Mexico) Ricarda Lisk finished for the first time ever in a podium position at a 70.3 Ironman. After an impressive competition she competed in 4:36:34 h and with a third place behind the winner Magali Tisseyere (4:24:28h, CAN) and Carrie Lester (4:31:45h, AUS). Already while swimming Ricarda placed the foundation for the later result. Despite the high pace she was able to establish from the...

Team La Pomme Marseille successful at Tour of Hainan

The cycling team La Pomme Marseille (FRA) has achieved great results at the 10th Tour of Hainan (CHN):> Julien El Fares is the winner of mountain classification and at 3rd place in the general classification.> Benjamin Giroud is 2nd in the points classification. Furthermore he won the 5th stage and in the last stage he was 3rd.> Rémy Di Grégorio finished as 2nd in the mountains classification.> In the Team Classification Team La Pomme...

Kupfernagel wins in Steinmaur (SUI)

Photo: © Uli Hugger Kupfernagel wins in Steinmaur (SUI) Hanka Kupfernagel won the 54th edition of the cross-country race in Steinmaur (SUI). Thus the 41-year-old celebrated her second victory in a UCI race category C2 in this cross season, after she has already been successful at the end of September in Illnau (SUI). Hanka Kupfernagel succeeded quite a sovereign victory. With 36 seconds lead-over she placed Juliette Labous (FRA) who is 24 years younger than her, to the second...

Rapha Super Cross: Mike Kluge wins

30 years after Mike Kluge has won the World Championship title of cyclo-cross amateurs at Munich's Olympic mountain, he wins a few hundred meters away again in the final of "Rapha Super Cross". "That was fun, my first cross racing since 1999 and directly to a victory, also here where my cross-career practically begun", said a thoroughly exhausted, but happy Mike in the finish area: "But it was really hard, much harder than in...

Ironman: Lucy Gossage Top Ten in Kona world title race

Lucy Gossage, cancer doctor and Ironman champion, finished world-class 10th in the women's event at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.She was especially struggling against the heat, temperatures topped 120F (49C) on race day in Kona. "There was no shade at all," the triathletes reported, having to complete the 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike leg and marathon run. A race that brings the world best...

Plese wins IM Barcelona

David Plese won the Ironman Barcelona 2015 after 8:02:20 hours. The race was a long fight: during swimming and cycling, and even a long time while running David Plese was in the chasing group. But he could pass the leader group and ten kilometers from the finish he overtook the leading Anton Blokhin (UKR). With the fastest marathon (2:43:38), he ran for his first Ironman victory. Congratulations!

Svenja Thoes on 1st place (AG) atThomas Cook Ironman Mallorca

Svenja Thoes reached at her first long distance - the Thomas Cook Ironman Mallorca - with a time of 9:38 hours, the 1st place in her age group. In the women's category Svenja was sixth. Thus the young athlete has secured the slot for Hawaii 2016th. Congratulations.

Berlin Marathon: Vico Merklein wins the handbiking

For the fifth time Vico Merklein won the handbikers race at the Berlin Marathon. With his time of 1:02:32 hours, he secured after a hard race also the track record.Congratulations!

Sergey Firsanov (RusVelo) second in Tre Valli Varesine (ITA)

RusVelo rider Sergey Firsanov crossed the finish line as second in the Italian one-day classic Tre Valli Varesine, 8 seconds behind the winner Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) and just ahead of the chasing group. The 198 km-long hilly course proved as selective as always, there was not a moment found to ease up a bit.

4 x Gold, 4 x Silver

Franzsika Brausse and Isabell-Linda Seif from Team Mangertseder won 8 medals at Baden-Wuerttemberg track bike Championships. Franziska Brausse won in the competitions Omnium, Points race, 2000 m individual pursuit and the 500 m time trial sovereign the gold medal. Isabell-Linda Seif took behind her teammate respectively the second place and was pleased over four silver medals. Well done!!

Powerman Zofingen: Seppe Odeyn is Vice World Champion

At Powerman Zofingen (SUI), the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships Seppe Odeyn (Belgian) won the Vice World Champion title. The competition over 10 km running, 150 km cycling and 30 km running, he finished with a time of 6:24:59 hours and the best running time of all participants in the 2nd running part. Well done!!

Georg Swoboda wins fourth title at his last race

At the 28th Austria Triathlon in Podersdorf am See the Austrian National Champion (long distance) were elected: Georg Swoboda finished the last race of his career with the fourth title in a row. Georg Swoboda (AUT) had announced in advance, not only to finish his last race, but also to be champion again. He won by a clear lead, in 8:24:10 hours and with that he collected the fourth Austrian Champion (long distance) in a...

Bernhard Steinberger is UMCA European Champion in Ultra Cycling

Bernhard Steinberger won the Race around Ireland in the category single driver. After 2134.7 km he finished as an European champion in Navan (IRL) this race. But not only that - he receives another award for the fastest lap record between two time stations the Amadatrophy. He rode his bike with a time of 98 hours, 22 minutes and 16 seconds, resulting in an average speed of 22.32 km / h results. That's the second best...

Second place (AG) for Svenja Thoes at IM Zell am See

After a hot race with temperatures of almost 35°C Svenja Thoes was after exactly four hours, 52 minutes and 35 seconds able to celebrate a big success in her career. She managed it Ironman Zell am See in her age group of 18- to 24-year-olds to finish at the second place. Since at the event, the world champions have been identified, she now can call herself vice world champion. Faster than Svenja Thoes was only Lucy...

2nd Place for Tine Holst at IRONMAN Vichy

After a short, effective training period on Mallorca, Tine decided last week to participate at the IRONMAN Vichy in the French Auvergne. A good choice ´cause she delivered an excellent race! On her last running lap, Tine was able to overtake the six time Hawaii victress Natascha Badmann from Switzerland. Only the Spanish Frades Gurutze was faster. The nearly 4 km long swimming led the athletes through Lac d ´ Allier. Tine...

National league victory in team scoring, 2nd in individual

The bicycle-national league-season is over. The Team Mangertseder from Baden-Württemberg brought in an easy victory in the team ranking "Müller - the purple logistics bicycle national league" after seven races. Five times the team won the daily scoring, twice they had second-place finishes, with this the Team Mangertseder rated itself to the most successful junior team of in Germany. Out of 210 points, the nine team...

Simon Gänger wins DM Paratriathlon (middle distance)

Simon Gänger presented himself from the best side, at the German Championship of Para triathletes over the middle distance for the five athletes with disabilities.With perfect weather, nearly 25 degrees and almost no wind, the athletes started their race. With the fastest time Simon Gänger finished after 4:58:06 the as first competition. The triathlete who starts in the PT3 (moderate disability) was able to undercut the five-hour...

Home victory for Bas Diederen at Ironman Maastricht-Limburg

The Team4Talent athlete Bas Diederen won the premiere of Ironman Maastricht-Limburg 2015, his teammate Mark Oude Bennink became second. With a time of 8:27:18 hours Bas Diederen won the home race in the Dutch city of Maastricht. Together with his countryman and teammate Mark Oude Bennink and Alberto Casadei (Italy) Bas Diederen got of the Meuse after 46:22 minutes at the third place. In the second bike...

Third place for Ricarda Lisk at Frankfurt City Triathlon

The second half of the season has started for Ricarda Lisk with a podium finish: At Frankfurt City Triathlon she finished in 2:19:58h at the third place behind the winner Natasha Schmitt (2:11:01h) and Daniela Sämmler (2:15:14h). Already in the first discipline, swimming in the “Langen” forest lake, Ricarda Lisk showed once again her skill. She swam with the men's group around the former IRONMAN Hawaii winner Faris Al...

Markus Hörmann third at Challenge Ponzan

The Challenge Ponzan (Poland) Markus Hörmann had to begin in a large group of around 80 professional athletes, all started together in the first discipline. So he found himself swimming in the chasing group. But already during the first change and the following, demanding bike course he could catch up. As sixth he sprintet to the running course - and there should still make a splash. Markus Hörmann had a brilliant day, six..

Tim Rose second ICAN-Triathlon Amsterdam (middle distance)

The race began for Tim Rose with a fast swimming time of 32:38 min for 1.9 km. After that, he changed to the 90 km bike course, for which he needed 2:22:35 h. The first 50 km were "very tough" after Tim Roses information, but then he found a good rhythm and was able to keep a high tempo. For the following 21.1 km running, he took 1:20:14 h. At the end is a total time of 4:19:50 h and that is a successful 2nd in his age group. Well...

Victory for Tine Holst at the 25.Bonn Triathlon

1,300 athletes participated in this year's anniversary of the Bonn Triathlon. After the spectacular start of the ferry, it was 3.8 km to swim. Tine Holst came out of the water as the fourth fastest woman and then she made in her favorite discipline cycling, she had a straight drive (60 km/1:37:55 h). After 5 km, she took the leading position. This powerful effort ensured her thebest bike split of the day. On the run course she had to...

Bas Diederen finished 2nd at Ironman 70.3 Luxembourg

After 1.9 km swim, 90 km bike and 21.1 km run only Manuel Kueng (SUI) was faster. After a great fight Bas Diederen was missing not even one and a half minutes to the winner and finished this Ironman at the second place. With this he could collect some points for the Kona Pro Ranking. What a great result!

Hettich wins Triathlon Schömberg

Christopher Hettich won the 26th Edition of the “Schömberger” triathlon. The young athlete dominated at the third race in the 1st local league over the Olympic distance and could win with a total time of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 47 seconds ahead of Dominik Sowieja and Malte Plappert.

Katrine Trolle 3rd at Deloitte Øresund Triathlon

At the fifth edition of the Deloitte Øresund Triathlon (DEN) with 1,500 individual athletes and 65 relay team starting, Katrine Trolle went for 3rd place medal. After a cold spring there was excitement right up to the last about whether the open water would be warm enough to swim 1,900 meters on a Sunday morning. With 16.4 degrees water temperature the athletes could complete the entire programme. According to Katrine she...

German Championships UCI track cycling 2015

The 129.German track cycling Championships took place in Berlin.Domenic Weinstein defends title in single pursuitRad-net ROSE athlete Domenic Weinstein is old and new German Champion in the single pursuit. In the grand finale, he gave Leon R. Rohde no chance and defended his title in 4:21,991 minutes by a lead of 1.2 seconds.Maximilian Levy convinced in SprintFor the first time in his career Maximilian Levy won the...

Christian Kramer already qualified for IRONMAN World Championships

At the IRONMAN Lanzarote Christian Kramer ended the 3.8 km swimming on 5th place and joined with the leading group to the bike section. The extreme wind on the volcanic island finally helped that the leading positions changed rapidly. For Christian Kramer everything went according to his plan, he could increase the distance to his pursuers. On this day his bike split should also remain the fastest of all the athletes, with a lead of...

Victory for Hester and Nip Tuck

Despite the weather at CDI Royal Windsor Grand Prix was pretty bad, Olympic team gold medallist Carl Hester and Nip Tuck won masterfully with 75,380 %. This is the third international win for the duo in this season. Hester was very confident with the performance of Nip Tuck (“it felt like a personal best to me…”) and is very proud on the development of the Dutch-bred gelding.

Simon Gänger is Vice - European Champion

Within a week Para-Triathlete Simon Gänger (start classification PT3) won two championship titles: he is Vice-European Champion and German Champion.After his successful third place in Madrid (10.05.) Simon Gänger completed the medal blessing at the European Championships in Rimini in the middle of May. Here, he won the silver medal on the middle distance (1.9 km swim/ 93 km bike/21 km running). Barely a...

Team Mangertseder with great success

Top rankings and leader's jersey in the cycling leagueAfter a great start to the cycling league at the first race in Karbach team Mangertseder continued its success story at the second station in Merdingen. Liane Lippert became second at the second race of the cycling league on the 58.1 km long race. With that she got also the leader jersey of the cycling league.In the opening race, the riders of the team convinced as well:...

RusVelo up to Top

Solomennikov 3rd at Five Rings of MoscowAndrey Solomennikov finished third in the final stage of 2.2 Five Rings of Moscow which is held on the Olympic road race circuit. In addtition to that with this victory he finishes the race on the 3rd place overall. This race is traditionally considered an ultimate test of tactical and technical skills; very often no more than a third of the starters make it to the finish.In the teams classification...

Svenja thoes wins IM Mallorca

In the swimming as well as in the bicycle phase Svenja Thös can dominate with a good performance. But then minor problems occur when running. Despite these difficulties, it should be her race. Svenja Thös wins the Ironman 70.3 Mallorca in her age class as well as the first place of all women´s age classes.

Vicotry for La Pomme Marseille-rider

What a great win for Team Marseille 13 KTM! Thanks to an amazing team work, Ignatas Konovalovas wins the overall classification of “4 Days de Dunkerque” in France.

Michael Kölz wins the Grand Prix of Redefin

What a great success for Michael Kölz! With an absolutely superior lap on Dipylon, the 30-year-old secured the Grand Prix at the Redefin Horse Festival and also 3 more victories in this International Horse Competition. Michael Kölz and Dipylon are in top form. Already on the first day of the tournament he won the best-endowed jumping (CS13 * / 1,45m) and showed how fit they are. This was also confirmed in the jumping for the...

Interschutz 2015: News from CASCO

One High-Light of this year’s Interschutz will be the light helmet CASCO PF 100 Rescue, which has a weight of just 500 gram and fulfils both new safety standards for technical rescue (EN 16473) and fire and wild fire combat (EN 16471). This multifunctional helmet is also accepted as head protection for canoeing and white water sports (EN 1385).The CASCO PF 100 Rescue weights as much as two pieces of butter and sets a...

Successful races for Team RusVelo

Balykin wins Maykop - Ulyap - MaykopBeating Timofey Kritskiy in a two-man sprint RusVelo rider Ivan Balykin won the race of Maykop (Russia, Cat. 1.2). Balykin's teammate Roman Maikin rounded off the great result with finishing as third. The race took place on a predominantly flat 171 km-long course with start/ finish in Maykop over Uliap.Sergey Firsanov wins Grand Prix of AdygeyaRusVelo rider Sergey Firsanov won the...

Two victories in a day for team Mangertseder

The team Mangertseder (juniors of WRSV) started on Sunday with two races and both times it was a victory.Franziska Brausse won the “17th Raiffeisen Grand Prix Oberwangen“ in Switzerland. The 17-year old driver dominated in the circuit race over 51.5 km and won the final sprint against her own team mates and the competitors. Almost at the same time other team members convinced at “52. Rosenheimer Straßenpreis”. The...

Overall victory at French Cup for team Marseille

Team Marseille 13 KTM wins after Loubets victory some days ago also the time-trial at the French Cup and occupied the first four places. The winner is Evaldas Šiškevičius, who henceforth can wear the yellow Jersey. The team also successfully completed the circuit des Ardennes. In the overall ranking of the French Cup 2015 the athletes of Marseille occupy the first four places.Congratulations!

Loubet is first at Paris-Camembert

Loubet is first at Paris-Camembert Julien Loubet of the French Team Marseille 13 KTM won the 5th stage of the French Cup. The 202 km long race from Paris to Camembert was decided on the last 50 km, when the breakaway has been caught up again by the bunch. Many riders tried to break away from the main field, but without success. Finally Julien Loubet created a small group of 7 athletes 20 km away from the arrival in...

Clément Saint Martin (Team La Lomme Marseille) rides to podium at the tour “Critérium International”

The first stage of the tour “Critérium International” with 92,5 km between Porto-Vecchio and Porto-Vecchio was at Saturday in the morning. Since the beginning of this stage two athletes dominated: Clément Saint Martin (Team La Pomme Marseille) and Benjamin King (USA). They built up a lead of over four and half minutes over the field. In the end Clement Saint Martin finished as second and moreover he won the white jersey and...

Fak happy about season

In the last race of the season 2014/2015, the 15 km mass start of men in Khanty Mansiysk, the world champion in this discipline Jakob Fak took again the victory ahead of Anton Shipulin and Tarjei Boe. With this success Jakob Fak is third in the overall ranking of this season. The Slovene Fak said modestly: "Once again I wanted to have a good result at the end of the season, and think with my win today it worked out. It was a very...

Domracheva keeps her nerve

Darya Domracheva makes it exciting again in the battle for the overall World Cup victory. She finished third in the women's sprint over 7.5 km at the Biathlon World Cup in Khanty Mansiyk behind her major rivals Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Laura Dahlmeier. Now she is only 9 points ahead. "Darya Domracheva remains relaxed:" I have lost today a few points of my lead, but I will give my very best at the pursuit to win. I won´t let it get to...

3 RusVelo athletes on podium in GP of Sochi

The pro continental squad of RusVelo opened this season with winning in the capital of 2014 winter Olympics. They were able to take all three podium spots after climbing a long final ascent to the ski resort Rosa Khutor. Sergey Firsanov crossed the line ahead of his teammates Aleksandr Foliforov and Artem Ovechkin. The final 20 kilometers of the 168 km-long GP were hard work for the peloton since there was a climb of 900...

Norway is Vice World Champion

At the Biathlon World Championships in Finland Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Tarje and Johannes Thingnes Boe become together with Emil Hegle Svendsen Vice World Champion at the 4 x 7.5 km relay behind the new world champion Germany. The bronze medal went to France. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen said in the press conference: "It was a good race of me today and I am happy with my performance today." Also Johannes Thingnes Boe is...

Three CASCO athletes on the World Championship podium

It was a triple success for CASCO at the last race of the Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland). New world champion at the 15 km mass start race of men was the Slovenian Jakov FAK, ahead of the Czech Ondrej Moravec, who won herewith his 4th medal. Bronze went to the Norwegian Tarjei Boe, who achieved medal No. 5. "Jakov Fak had to complete only one penalty loop and happily said after the race:" I felt...

Moravec on podium at World Championships

Ondrej Moravec from Czech won the bronze medal at the 20 km individual race at the Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland) behind the Frenchman Martin Fourcade and the Norwegian Emil Hegle Svendsen. The 30-year old Czech had one failure and came in with a deficit of 40.5 seconds. Satisfied with his performance, he said after the race: "The third place is a huge success for me. It makes me proud to have...

Soukalova is Vice World Champion

It was truly tragic what happened at the woman individual race of the Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland). The Czech Gabriela Soukalova was already celebrating her victory, when Yurlova Ekaterina from Russia, who started with no. 93 and is talked about as an outsider, remained flawless and could unexpectedly beat all her rivals. Soukalova had already given interviews as winner of the race and was after...

Boe brothers more than successful at World Championships

After Johannes Thingnes and Tarjei Boe already won together bronze in the mixed relay at the Biathlon Word Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland), they were again both on the podium after the 10 km sprint race. Tarjei Boe clinched the bronze medal despite a so far harsh season due to several diseases. For that reason he were even happier about his results. The younger of the two brothers Johannes Thingnes Boe won his first...

Two teams of CASCO on World Championship podium

In Kontiolahti (Finland) the first medal winners of the Biathlon World Championships are already awarded. New world champion in the mixed relay race is the team from the Czech Republic ahead of France. The Norwegian team with Johannes Thingnes und Tarjei Boe won the bronze medal. The Czech Gabriela Soukalova is overjoyed: "A dream came true. To win already in the first race of the World championship is a great feeling...

Successful track bike world championship in France

Right at the first day of the track bike World Championship the Casco-riders secured the first medals. In the men's team sprint Joachim Eilers, René Enders and Robert Förstemann beat Russia and won the bronze medal.In the women's team sprint Anastasia Voinova (RU) ranked with her partner the second place. Lucas Liß wins gold in the ScratchLucasc Liß from the Team Rad-net Rose is the new world champion in Scratch. He...

Medal at World Championships for Hattestad

In front of 18,000 spectators, Ola Vigen Hattestad of Norway finished third in the discipline 1.4 km classic sprint at the Nordic World Championships in Falun (Sweden). The 32-year-old came in behind team-mate Petter Northug and the Canadian Alex Harvey.Congratulations!

Silver medal for Cologna at World Championships

Dario Cologna achieved great results in his favourite discipline, Skiathlon, (he already has won gold at the World Championships and Olympics) at the Nordic World Championships in Fallun (Sweden). After the start of the third and final round of skating, Cologna went over to attack and pulled clear of the leading group. Only three of his competitors were able to follow him. In the final sprint, the popular Swiss had to admit defeat against...

Again relay win for Czech woman

The Czech women was able to win the relay already for the third time in this biathlon season. The team from the Czech Republic with Eva Puskarcikova, Gabriela Soukalova, Jitka Landova und Veronika Vitkova won the 4 x 6 km long race at Holmenkollen ahead of the surprising quartet from Italy and France on rank three. The Czechs needed 5 spare loops and showed a very good team performance. Representative for the...

Yellow jersey for Domracheva

The World Cup is approaching and Darya Domracheva is in top form. At the Biathlon World Cup at the legendary Holmenkollen in Oslo she superiorly won the 7.5 km sprint and received the yellow jersey of Kaisa Mäkäräinen from Finland. She was not only strong on her ski, but also convinced at the shooting. The Belarus only needed 6 seconds to hit all prone targets and remained flawless until the end of the race. Her excellent...

Domracheva and Vitkova on podium

At the Biathlon World Cup at Holmenkollen in Oslo, the two CASCO representatives Darya Domracheva and Veronika Vitkova gained rank second and third at the 15 km individual race behind winner Kaisa Mäkäräinen from Finland. Vitkova optimally exploit the windless conditions and cleaned all 20 targets. Domracheva, however, had one penalty, but was as usual very strong in skiing and fought back to the top and overtook over 40...

Koudelka flies on podium

At the Ski Jumping World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt the Czech Roman Koudelka scored 273.3 points with 131.5 m and 140.5 m. Therewith he ranked third. He said on the press conference: “I'm very satisfied. My first jump was not so good, the second one was a lot better and I'm happy that I could be on the podium. This is very important for me.”Congratulations.

Domracheva wins at storm and snow

Darya Domracheva celebrated with her win at the10 km pursuit in Nove Mesto her 7th Biathlon World Cup victory of this season and the 23rd in her career. Despite strong snow and harsh weather conditions, she remained focused and prevailed against her competitors and won ahead of Kasia Mäkäräinen and Laura Dahlmeier. She said: "It was a little bit hard race! You have to fight to the end; you still have a chance." And she used it...

Second World Cup victory in a row for Fak

Jakob Fak showed in Nove Mesto at the 10 km biathlon world cup sprint a faultless shooting and the fastest time of the day and won for the first time this season. He said at the press conference: "My key to success today was shooting clean. Also, I really like the track in Nove Mesto. I´m well prepared for the World Cup." The Slovenian also seemed well prepared for the 12.5 km pursuit race, which he also won. He started first...

Vitkova again on podium

At the 7.5 km biathlon world cup women's sprint in Nove Mesto Veronika Vitkova was ranked third behind the two German Laura Dahlmeier and Franziska Hildebrand. The atmosphere was great with good weather, 35.000 spectators and a sold-out stadium. With this podium the young Czech is placed fourth in the overall ranking. "Veronika Vitkova said about her third place: "To get on the podium here in front of my home...

CASCO athletes successful despite storm

Already the man relay at the biathlon world cup in Antholz (Italy) was dominated by gusts of wind, which made all shooting difficult. Almost no athlete remained flawless. The Norwegians with Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Tarjei und Johannes Thinges Bö only had 5 reloads and won the race. At the women's relay some time later the storm was devastating. The Czech Veronika Soukalova managed to clean prone and took the lead. When...

Domracheva is flying high: 3rd win in a row

Darya Domracheva of Belarus was unbeatable in the pursuit at the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz (Italy) and is in exceptionally good form. Right from the start the Belarus was in the lead and gave her competitors no opportunity to contest her position. She won by a large margin of 1.12 minutes with just one penalty loop at the first prone shooting and apart from that an impeccable shooting performance. She commented: "It was not such...

Domracheva breaks record in Antholz

Until now no biathlete was able to complete the Sprint race of Antholz under 20 minutes. Darya Domracheva form Belarus now overcame this magical limit and surpassed her competitors. It was a perfect race. She cleaned prone and impressed later with a self-confident fast standing, which was also flawless. With this great shooting result there was no stopping for the Belarus, who has fabulous skiing skills. She won by...

Third place for Fak at sprint

Probably due to his last shot the Slovene Jakob Fak missed the victory at the 10 km men sprint at the Biathlon World Cup in Antholz and finished third behind Simon Schempp and Evgeniy Garanichev. He cleaned prone and remained also flawless at the first four shots standing, then he missed the last one and had to go into the penalty loop. He came back on the track in third place and defended this position until the finish. The...

Two gold and one silver medal for CASCO athletes at Cali World Cup

RusVelo track team riders won two medals at the UCI World Cup in Cali, Columbia. The second day of race was marked by an impressive performance at the team pursuit of the recently created quartet, composed of two experienced riders, Artur Ershov and Alexander Serov, and two youngsters, Aleksandr Evtushenko and Alexey Kurbatov. They set the best time of the day in the first round, which couldn´t be improved during the day...

Photo finish decides: Slesingr is third

After 14.5 km still 6 men fight for the Biathlon World Cup victory in Ruhpolding. Three of them can settle on the last 200 metres and the audience begins to hold the breath. In the end the photo finish had to decide the 15 km mass start, because the German Schempp, the Frenchman Fillon Maillet and the Czech Slesingr finished at the same time. Michal Slesingr remained flawless in the shooting just like his two opponents and...

There is no stopping Domracheva

Again, Darya Domracheva of Belarus made the impossible possible: after three penalties at the 12.5 km mass start in Ruhpolding the world class biathlete was in the middle of the peloton and had a fantastic comeback. The audience of Ruhpolding saw a spectacular race of the probably actually fastest biathlete. Domracheva won by a margin of 16.5 seconds ahead of the German Preuss. Veronika Vitkova ended up on third place and..

The perfect race for Bö

One day Johannes Thingnes Bö might tell his granchildren about this great10 km Sprint. At the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, the Norwegian demonstrated all his skills. With the precision of a Swiss Watch, he not only remained flawless at the shootings, but also buried the whole sprint field. Despite the energy-sapping new snow his skiing seemed to be easy. He sovereignly won by a margin of 23.5 seconds. Bö commented on his...

Norwegians win relay

The Norwegian biathlon men's relay team with Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Johannes Thinges Bö won the 4 x 7.5 km world-cup race in Ruhpolding, ahead of Germany and Russia. Unlike the weather at the women's relay one day before, the men could be confident with dry and hard tracks which enabled a fast race. And in fact the race was fast. Björndalen wasn´t irritated by the fast pace and skied right from the start in...

Second victory for Czech relay team

After winning the relay at der Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, the Czech women team also finished first at the 4 x 6 km race in Ruhpolding, Germany. Just like in Oberhof Eva Puskarcikova had an impressive start. She fired 10 shots and all 10 targets turned black. She exchanged as first with a lead of 25 seconds. On the press conference, she said modestly: "It was hard to shoot clean with the snow falling, but it was easier...

Domracheva and Vitkova on top

What are the abilities of a world-class athlete? Perhaps, that you never lose sight of winning also when you need to ski four penalty loops. This happened to Darya Domracheva on the final day of the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, Germany. At the 12.5 km mass start race the Belarus could fight from a position somewhere between 20 and 30 rank back to the top. Domracheva commented on her catching up: "I think it is no surprise...

Bjoerndalen again on the podium

The eight-time biathlon Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has once again shown how strong he is. At the 10 km men Sprint in Oberhof Germany. He secured the 2nd place at difficult wind conditions. The competition was delayed since the snow on the track seemed to melt due to rain and warm temperatures. Artificial snow and a dedicated organization team made the race possible. Anyway the athletes had their...

Norwegian men's relay won despite bad weather

For a long time it was not clear, whether the 7.5 km men's relay at the Biathlon World Cup in Obersdorf could take place due to heavy rain, storm and fog. In the end the organisers start the race and the athletes had to deal with the cold and bad weather conditions. There were no less than four crashes during the first leg. Nevertheless the Norwegian team had a successful race not least to the experience of Johannes Thinges Bö and Ole...

Tour de ski: Cologna has a successfull start into the new year

Dario Cologna is in top form at his first race of the year 2015. At the prologue of Tour de Ski in Oberstdorf Germany the Swiss defeated his competitors on the 4.4-km-long race and won by a margin of 5 seconds. Happy about the race, Cologna commented: "I knew if I want to win here, I need to be good. It worked all well, and it was a good prologue for me. However there are still 6 hard races to pass. It's nice to be back at the...

Christmas gift for Skardino: third rank at WC

At the last World Cup biathlon race of the year 2014, the mass start race over 12.5 km in Pokljuka, Nadezhda Skardino ranked third on the podium. Right after the start, the Belarus was in the leading group and was able to defend this good position due to a flawless shooting and good endurance. Shortly before the finish, she moved past Gabriela Soukalova to make the podium position happen. She commented on the last...

Wir gratulieren beiden Teams zum Erfolg!

Belarus and Czech Republic ranked two and three in the women’s relay In the 4 X 6 km women’s relay the teams from Belarus and Czech Republic finished on the podium following the winning relay team from Germany.Statement Darya Domracheva: "I had to give my best today to achieve a podium placement. We can be satisfied with 2nd place." Veronika Vitkova to the press:" Darya was simply too strong in the final...

Sprint Win for Johannes Thingnes Boe

Hochfilzen, Austria: Norway's Johannes Thingnes Boe was perfect in a wire-to-wire win in thes men's 10K sprint and celebrated the 6th World Cup win of his career. His clean shooting and superb skiing brought him a 24:34.9 victory, 14.3 seconds ahead of Germany's Simon Schempp. Third place went to Andi Birnbacher who was another 3.6 seconds behind.Emil Hegle Svendsen was the early leader with a fast clean...

Roman Koudelka wins in Lillehammer

Roman Koudelka won yesterday’s ski jumping World Cup in Lillehammer. And again the second World Cup competition was marked by difficult wind conditions in Lillehammer, Norway. Therefore the competition was jumped in only one pass. The best performance was shown be Roman Koudelka from the Czech Republic. He took 1st place, followed by Peter Prevc and Michael Hayböck on third place. Wind - and gate...

Silver medal for Vitkova

Biathlon: Veronika Vitkova from Czech Republic ranked two in the women's 7.5 km Sprint in Ostersund, just behind the surprise winner Tiril Eckhoff and before Kaisa Mäkäräinen."In the press conference Veronika Vitkova stated:" our team spirit pays off more and more. We are a great community, and that gives us hope and more confidence for the future.I'm very happy."We, too! Great performance Veronika, keep it going!

Podium finishes for Moravec and Fak

Biathlon: the 10 km men's Sprint of Östersund ended with ranks two and three for Ondrej Moravec and Jakov Fak behind winner Martin Fourcade.Statement Ondrej Moravec: "I felt good today and I am very satisfied with my performance. It's nice to be on the podium here today."Jakov Fak: "To have finished on 3rd place here is great. I knew if I shoot well, I will achieve a good result, and could even have won today. But with third place...

Domracheva triumphs in Oestersund

Darya Domracheva triumphs in the 15 km individual race of ladies in Östersund, and took the gold medal despite two penalty minutes, followed by Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Semerenko."Statement Darya Domraceheva:" My form was good today, and it has been fun to race here. I am delighted to stand right on top of the podium at the beginning of the new season again." Super performance Darya, we wish you continued...

Podium finish for Michal Slesingr

In the first individual race of the new biathlon season 2014 / 2015 in Östersund, Sweden, Michal Slesingr (CZ) finished the 20 km individual race On an excellent third place behind Emil Hegle Svendsen and Serhiy Semenov.Statement Michal Slesingr: “I am now very happy with a podium finish in the first race, had good material, and the conditions were OK too. Östersund seems to be a good place for me, here I have always...

Casco rider successful at "Grand Prize of Saxony"

During the tournament "Grand Prix of Sachsen" (21. - 23.11.) about 145 riders from six nations started in 16 contests in Chemnitz.Michael Kölz wins the first competitionAt the warm-up competition on the first day of the tournament Michael Kölz won with Diablesse HL the first show jumping competition of the evening. He won the jumping competition M ** in 0/45,07 (penalty points/seconds). In the same competition Ellen Kölz...

European Championships Track Cycling in the Caribbean Guadeloupe

Casco athletes convince on the first dayThe trio from Germany became European Champion in the team sprint. In this year the team startet with new members: Joachim Eilers, Tobias Wächter and Robert Förstemann and Germany could win this title the fifth time in a row. The track team with the four rad-net ROSE team riders Henning Bommel, Theo Reinhardt, Nils Schomber and Kersten Thiele have become...

Eimear Mullan and Domenico Passuello win Challenge Forte Village-Sardinia

Around 700 "elite"-athletes from 38 Nations took part in this challenge on the Italian island. Domenico Passuello from Italy competed in the middle distance of the men (1.9 km swimming/ 90 km bike/ half marathon). After an impressive competition he could win convincingly with a time of 03:56:24.Eimear Mullan from Ireland started in the middle distance (1.9 km swimming/ 90 km bike/ half marathon) Swimming wasn ́t her...

Lars Erik Frike is Vice World Champion XTERRA Age Group

The Humanspeed Endurance Team rider started with an excellent swimming performance in Maui (Hawaii) and moved as a leading age grouper (leading German in the PRO category) into the race. In his special discipline, the bike, he could show his skills and extend his lead. On the subsequent Trailrun Lars Erik Fricke went to his limits, at the end he was only beaten by one athlete and took the title Vice World Champion. Well done...

Successful Tour of Hainan for Team La Pomme Marseille´ 13!

After the ninth and last stage of the Tour of Hainan (stage race / China) it´s sure: Julien Antomachi (Team La Pomme Marseille ´ 13/ France) is the overall winner of the Tour of Hainan. But he wasn´t the only successful person: the whole Team La Pomme Marseille ´ 13 wins in the team ranking. Julien Antomarchi already caught attention by his 2 stage victories during the tour: The 4th stage was slightly hillier as the section the...

CASCO on 1. Place at CAVALLO-readers`choice 2014

The readers of the leading German magazine CAVALLO have chosen: for the election "CAVALLO trophy 2014 - best brands and products in equestrian sports" 250 products and brands were nominated in 11 categories in the issues June and July. The CASCO´s helmet PRESTIGEair reached 25% in the category “equestrian helmets” and took the title. Approximately 10 000 readers participated in the reader's choice in 2014. We...

Patrick Van der Meer wins freestyle

Shortly after his victory in the Prix St. Georges, Patrick van der Meer wins with his stallion Sir Fashion also the freestyle final in the manege Middenhof, in Maasslius. They received a score of 76,31% and Danielle van Mierlo came with Ucento (70,75) third.

CASCO athletes dominate / successful German Championships UCI track cycling 2014

Successful German Championships UCI track cycling in Cottbus 2014Fifth title in a row for Kristina Vogel in the SprintKristina Vogel won the title in the Sprint as expected for the fifth time in a row. The 23-year-old prevailed in the final against her team sprint colleague Miriam Welte. Sabina Ossyra took the third place.Victory for favourite in the men's Team Sprint : René Enders, Robert Förstemann and Maximilian Dörnbach from Thuringia...

Victory for Tine Holst at Carglass Cologne Triathlon weekend

Tine Holst participated in the “Hawaii-Special” race with a shorter run course. The competition starts with a 3,8 kilometer swim in the Fühlinger See. Tine Holst changed after 1:04 hours swimming to the bike. There she was in her strongest element and finished the flat and fast racecourse after giant 4:52 hours.Her running-split over the closing 14 kilometers was also very strong, she passes the finish line after 1:01 hour...

Coninx is U23 Triathlon World Champion 2014

With a total time of 1:53:06, Dorian Coninx won the Triathlon World Champion title in the U23 in Edmonton, Canada . The young Frenchman competed against the Brits Marc Austin, Gordon Benson and his compatriot Simon Viain successfully. Straight from the start Dorian Coninx was in the front rows of the exciting race. He came out of the water as a fifth and he finished the bike course with a good performance. While running, he could...

Swoboda wins triathlon with breakage of course record in Podersdorf, Austria

The Austrian pro triathlete Georg Swoboda won for the third time in a row on the long distance (3,8 km swim /180 km bike/42,195 km run) at the 27th Triathlon in Podersdorf, Austria and thereby improved the nine-year-old course record by nearly four minutes in 8:07:21 hours.With a 4:08:41 hours-cycling time on the 180 km course Swoboda laid the foundation stone for the victory, which also provided him the national...

rad-net ROSE team is German Champion in the team pursuit

At the beginning of the track Championships in Cottbus, the rad-net ROSE team has broken through Brandenburg-race win streak in the 4000 m team pursuit. The team won with Henning Bommel, Theo Reinardt, Nils Schomber and Kersten-Thiele in the final with 4: 15,515 minutes. The LKT team Brandenburg was 2nd in 4: 17,894. Congratulations!

Christian Kramer wins TransVorarlberg 2014 with new track record

It was supposed to be the final test for the IRONMAN World Championship on 11 th of October 2014 for Christian Kramer - and it really was in the end. The crossing of the Hochtannberg pass (1,660 m) with some heavy rain required everything from the participants in the climb and descent. After a 1.2 km swim in Lake Constance, 93 km on the bike from Bregenz to Lech and finally a 12 km run in Lech, Kramer...

Plese qualifies for the Ironman World Championship on Hawaii

The Slovenian triathlete David already absolved three Ironman races this year. All three within a month’s time and completing these very successfully: 3rd place in Klagenfurt, 6th place in Frankfurt and now 2nd place in Zurich.With these top results the 31-year-old Slovene not only attracted a lot of attention, but also moved to rang 16 among the 50 best professional triathletes. Thus he automatically qualified for the Ironman...