XTERRA Short Track Preview (Live on Cyclry)
The XTERRA European Championship returns to Zittau, Germany for an action-packed weekend of full distance and televised Short Track off-road triathlon racing on Friday and Saturday, August 20th & 21st.
It’s the 12th time XTERRA has raced around Olbersdorfer Lake on the edge of Zittau, a historic town near the Polish and Czech borders, and the fourth time it’s hosted the EU Championship.
What is new this year is the adrenaline-filled XTERRA Short Track race on Friday afternoon featuring the sports fastest off-roaders going shoulder-to-shoulder in an exciting prelude to Saturday’s full distance showdown.
As the name suggests, XTERRA Short Track is a fast, multi-lap, made-for-TV event combining two 200-meter swim laps with an exit in-between, four 1.5km mountain bike laps complete with jumps and berms, and two 1.3km run loops. Winning times are expected to be in the 30-40 minute range.
The women’s Short Track race starts at 3:20pm CEST followed by the men at 4 :35pm, and both events will be broadcast live on Cyclry.
Short Track Broadcast Schedule
Both the women’s and men’s short track events will be live on Cyclry on Friday, August 20, 2021.
| Broadcast start | 3.15 PM CET | 9:15am Eastern |
| XTERRA Short Track women | 3.30 PM CET | 9:30am Eastern |
| XTERRA Short Track men | 4.45 PM CET | 10:45am Eastern |
XTERRA European Championship
Saturday’s XTERRA European Championship combines a 1.5km swim, 37km single loop mountain bike, and 10km trail run. The entire elite field will take part in both events, with a $7,500 USD purse up for grabs on Friday’s Short Track spectacle, and $25,000 USD on the line on Saturday.
The men’s elite race stars include 2019 XTERRA European ChampionArthur Serrieres who has already won four full-distance XTERRA races this year, his friend and rival Arthur Forissier – the reigning ITU Cross Tri World Champ who has won both XTERRA Short Track events so far this season, 7x World Champ Ruben Ruzafa, the uprising Maxim Chane fresh off full-distance wins at XTERRA France and Italy-Scanno, Short Track speedsters Jens Emil Slot Neilsen and Lukas Kocar, and home country legend Jens Roth.
The women’s field is equally impressive with reigning XTERRA European Champ Morgane Riou, 5x XTERRA European Tour Champ Helena Karaskova-Erbenova, 2019 XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour Champ Carina Wasle, and five elite women who have won an XTERRA major or Short Track race this season including Loanne Duvoisin (Garda ST + Czech full winner), Sandra Mairhofer (Scanno full), Solenne Billoin (France + Belgium full), Marta Menditto (Czech ST), and Eleonora Peroncini (Switzerland full).
Start Lists
| Tentative Elite Men’s Start List | Tentative Elite Women’s Start List |
| 3 – Arthur Serrieres, FRA | 3 – Helena Karaskova- Erbenova, CZE |
| 4 – Ruben Ruzafa, ESP | 5 – Morgane Riou, FRA |
| 9 – Maxim Chane, FRA | 7 – Loanne Duvoisin, CHE |
| 10 – Jens Emil Sloth Neilsen, DNK | 11 – Sandra Mairhofer, ITA |
| 11 – Lukas Kocar, CZE | 12 – Solenne Billoin, FRA |
| 13 – Arthur Forissier, FRA | 15 – Carina Wasle, AUT |
| 15 – Karel Dusek, CZE | 17 – Marta Menditto, ITA |
| 17 – Jens Roth, DEU | 20 – Eleonora Peroncini, ITA |
| 18 – Xavier Dafflon, CHE | 23 – Matilde Bolzan, ITA |
| 19 – Sébastien Carabin, BEL | 24 – Jindrinska Zemanova, CZE |
| 24 – François Vie, PRT | 30 – Aneta Grabmullerova, CZE |
| 34 – Rui Dolores, PRT | 42 – Emeline Azam, FRA |
| 35 – Michele Bonacina, ITA | 47 – Pauline Vie, PRT |
| 43 – Mathias Cloostermans, BEL | 48 – Anna Luzna, CZE |
| 46 – Lucas Van deyzne, BEL | 88 – Stepanka Bisova, CZE |
| 47 – Franco Pesavento, ITA | 163 – Louise Fox, GBR |
| 51 – Peter Lehmann, DEU | 259 – Katja Krenn, AUT |
| 56 – Jacques Martinez, FRA | 372 – Lara Buttigieg, MLT |
| 62 – Michael Francke, CZE | NR – Diede Diedericks, NLD |
| 91 – Simon Schwartz, DEU | |
| 107 – Gaetan Vivien, FRA | |
| 109 – Jan Francke, CZE | |
| 112 – Will Crudgington, GBR | |
| 130 – Julien Buffe, FRA | |
| 149 – Vojtech Bednarsky, CZE |