Source from www.triathlon.commerzbank.de

Maik Twelsiek celebrated the second Ironman victory of his career yesterday at Ironman USA Lake Placid in 8:36:37 hours. This also means the fourth Ironman title for the Commerzbank Triathlon Team this season. A few weeks ago, he had to cancel his start at Ironman Germany due to illness and now he enjoyed his success even more: “Today my legs were just brilliant. And the beautiful course boosted me”, said the athlete from Lemgo in Germany. 


photo by Commerzbank.triathlon

Twelsiek was third out of the water and part of the leading group. On the bike course, he rapidly took the lead and was keeping it until the finish line. The athlete of the Commerzbank Triathlon Team extended his lead up to 20 minutes ahead of the second-placed Scott-Athlete Christian Brader from Germany(Scott Plasma2, LTD Road Shoes, Makani Running Shoes, and TRI Clothing) and Jason Shortis of Australia. 



With this outstanding performance, Maik Twelsiek proved once again that he is one of the world’s best young Ironman talents. With his 14th place at his first start in Hawaii last year he already exceeded the expectations. Then he qualified for the World Championship this year finishing fifth at Ironman Australia. When the world class Ironman athletes compete for the World Championship title at Hawaii on October 10th, Twelsiek will be part of them as well as all his seven teammates. 

Yet he does not see himself as one of the favourites at Kona: „Having a look only at the competitors in the Commerzbank Triathlon Team, there are several athletes who can play among the field leaders: Normann Stadler already won twice in Hawaii and Timo is a twice European Champion. Marino Vanhoenacker won Ironman South Africa and Ironman Austria this year. And in addition to Mathias Hecht’s eighth place in Kona last year, he proved with a fifth place at Ironman Germany that he belongs to the world’s best long distance triathletes

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