Powerman Germany, World Cup in Zeitz

25 th May 2003

Sunny weather, 27Degrees, wind NO 4

Price money € 10,000 for the first 10 Male and Female   

 

Tina Walters first Powerman victory at Powerman Germany/Zeitz

 

In the women race Tina Walter(GER) showed already in the first run of 15 km that she was todays favourit in her home country

In transition came Tina Walter 1e and 2min 04 later Ulrike Schwalbe 2e.

On the bike Germans coming girl was able to make a 5 min lead. From the back of the field last year World Champion nr 3 Lenka Ilavska(SVK) drove to 2e positie through an extreme strong performance on the bike and in the fastest bike time of 01:53:09. She passed the finsihed line 2e and  Ulrike Schwalbe 3rd         

 

In the mans race Bennie Vansteelant continues his victory-line in Germany.

World Class athletes line up this weekend in Zeitz in Germany. Despite the fact that the organiser had a brain stroke 2 month before the event, the race took place. the Frieds of Powerman in Zeitz did an excellant job and the international athletes enjoyed every minute.

After 7 km Km Bennie Vansteelant(BEL) started to set the pace in the race from then the rest had to fight for the places from 2.

Jurgen Dereere(BEL) was able to enter the Transition Area with a cap of 40 sec.On the bike Vansteelant built a cap of 5 minutes

The surprise of the day was the Danish athlete Kim Nielsen. He came 2e second of the bike after overtaken Huub Maas(NED) en Dirk Strothmann(GER) in the last bike lap of 20km.Both thought to able to catch him again in the last run. But they never saw him till after the finish

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Powerman-Damen                        Run                 Bike                 Run                 TOTAL                       

1. Walter, Tina – GER –             00.59.50         1.53.22            34.18              3.27.30

2. Ilavska, Lenka –SVK –           1.04.32            1.53.09            36.09               3.33.52

3. Schwalbe, Ulrike – GER –      1.01.54            1.58.55            35.36               3.36.26

4.Friedrich, Konstanze-GER-      1.02.19            2.00.55            37.33               3.40.48

5. Strthmann, Antje-GER-            1.04.29            2.05.00            37.44.              3.47.15

6. Luxenhofer, Kathrin-GER-       1.03.07            2.07.17            39.32.              3.49.57

7. Jensen, Susanne -DEN-           1.07.38            2.03.13            40.20               3.51.12

8. Van Hoolandt, Martine –BEL- 1.07.23            2.06.13            40.03               3.53.40

9. Ungewickell, Antje-GER-         1.08.22            2.09.14            38.58               3.56.26

10. Hoffmann, Marion-GER-        1.10.06            2.09.41            41.17               4.01.05

  

Powerman-Männer

 1.Vansteelant, Benny-BEL-         52.09               1.39.20            32.19               3.03.49

2. Nielsen, Kim-DEN-                   55.16               1.40.50            30.17               3.06.24

3. Maas, Huub-NED-                     54.01               1.43.21            31.03               3.08.25

4. Strothmann,Dirk-GER-              53.42               1.43.38            31.13               3.08.34

5. Goerke, Niels-GER-                  54.36               1.43.18            31.34               3.09.30

6. Dereere, Jürgen-BEL-               52.50               1.46.47            32.13               3.11.51

7. Jensen, Simon Michael-DEN-    56.18                1.45.32            31.57               3.13.48

8. Weis, Bernd-GER-                      56.02               1.48.26            31.41               3.16.10

9. Tesselaar, Jody-NED-                54.48               1.49.01            33.19               3.17.10

10. Wienbreier, Daniel-GER-          54.37               1.50.07            32.43               3.17.29

 

International Powerman World ranking 25.05.03 After Zeitz

 

1.      Huub Maas-NED-       3875

2.      Stefan Riesen-SUI-       2700

3.      Benny Vansteelant-BEL- 2250

4.      Olivier Bernard-SUI-       1900

5.      Jürgen Dereere-BEL-      1600

6.      Dirk Strothmann-GER-      1625

7.      Greg Watson-USA-      1100

8.      Vincent Aldebert-FRA-      975

9.      Clas Björling-SWE-      870

10.  Richard Graemiger-SUI-      875

 

International Powerwomen World ranking 25.05.03

 

1. Karin Thürig-SUI-                             2500

2. Tina Walter-GER-                          2450

3. Ulrike Schwalbe-GER-               1855

4. Lenka Ilavska-SVK-               1850

5. Martine Vanhoolandt-BEL-    1260

6. Vicky Pincome-GBR-               1250

7. Edwige Pitel-FRA-                               1200

8. Ariane Schumacher-SUI-                 1000

9. Danielle Lentz-LUX-                 945

10. Erika Csomor-HUN-                        900