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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 CET9:15am Eastern
XTERRA Short Track women3.30 PM CET9:30am Eastern
XTERRA Short Track men4.45 PM CET10:45am Eastern

XTERRA European Championship

Saturday’s XTERRA European Championship combines a 1.5km swim37km 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 Riou5x XTERRA European Tour Champ Helena Karaskova-Erbenova2019 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 ListTentative Elite Women’s Start List
3 – Arthur Serrieres, FRA3 – Helena Karaskova- Erbenova, CZE
4 – Ruben Ruzafa, ESP5 – Morgane Riou, FRA
9 – Maxim Chane, FRA7 – Loanne Duvoisin, CHE
10 – Jens Emil Sloth Neilsen, DNK11 – Sandra Mairhofer, ITA
11 – Lukas Kocar, CZE12 – Solenne Billoin, FRA
13 – Arthur Forissier, FRA15 – Carina Wasle, AUT
15 – Karel Dusek, CZE17 – Marta Menditto, ITA
17 – Jens Roth, DEU20 – Eleonora Peroncini, ITA
18 – Xavier Dafflon, CHE23 – Matilde Bolzan, ITA
19 – Sébastien Carabin, BEL24 – Jindrinska Zemanova, CZE
24 – François Vie, PRT30 – Aneta Grabmullerova, CZE
34 – Rui Dolores, PRT42 – Emeline Azam, FRA
35 – Michele  Bonacina, ITA47 – Pauline Vie, PRT
43 – Mathias Cloostermans, BEL48 – Anna Luzna, CZE
46 – Lucas Van deyzne, BEL88 – Stepanka Bisova, CZE
47 – Franco Pesavento, ITA163 – Louise Fox, GBR
51 – Peter Lehmann, DEU259 – Katja Krenn, AUT
56 – Jacques Martinez, FRA372 – Lara Buttigieg, MLT
62 – Michael Francke, CZENR – 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