Commerzbank Triathlon Team

Timo Bracht at Ironman Germany , 2007

The Commerzbank Triathlon Team was a German triathlon team with international participation.

The team emerged from the Dresdner Kleinwort Triathlon Team, founded in July 2007 with the two-time winner of the Ironman World Championship Normann Stadler as team captain, Markus Fachbach and Jan Raphael , and the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort as sponsor. The commitment had a volume in the seven-digit euro range. A special feature of the contract was that all team members submitted to regular doping tests spread over the year and part of the payment should only be paid three years after the end of the contract in the event of negative doping tests. After the Dresdner Bank was taken over by Commerzbank in 2009, the team continued under the name Commerzbank Triathlon Team .

With the takeover by Commerzbank, Timo Bracht also became captain of the team, and Marino Vanhoenacker , Matthias Hecht, Maik Twelsiek and Scott Neyedli also joined the team. The members of the team, recognizable by their yellow jerseys, mainly focused on races of the Ironman distance (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling, 42.195 km running). On June 30, 2011, a few days before Normann Stadler resigned as a professional triathlete, Commerzbank announced the end of its engagement. One of the team’s last shared but not realized goals was a start for all athletes at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii in mid-October 2011.

The triathlon team started in 2012 under the name 21run.com Triathlon Team , from which the Power Horse Triathlon Team emerged in 2013 and the Sport for Good team in 2015 .

Three years after the end of the sponsorship agreement with Commerzbank, follow-up examinations by NADA on the frozen doping samples revealed that none of the athletes concerned were suspected of doping.

team

Surname	birthday	nationality
Timo Bracht	July 22, 1975	Germany
Normann Stadler	February 25, 1973	Germany
Markus Fachbach	October 9, 1982	Germany
Mathias Hecht	May 26, 1980	Switzerland
Jan Raphael	January 18, 1980	Germany
Maik Twelsiek	December 25, 1980	Germany
Marino Vanhoenacker	July 19, 1976	Belgium
Scott Neyedli 1	June 16, 1978	Scotland

¹ Scott Neyedli left the team at the end of 2009.

successes

2011 season

date	placement	competition	venue	athlete	time
4th December 2011	1st rank	Ironman Western Australia	Busselton	Timo Bracht	08:12:39
September 3, 2011	3rd rank	Triathlon de Gérardmer	Gerardmer	Mathias Hecht
August 27, 2011	1st rank	TriStar111 Minnesota	Minnesota	Maik Twelsiek	03:12:45
August 7, 2011	1st rank	Ironman Regensburg	regensburg	Markus Fachbach	08:29:16
July 24, 2011	2nd rank	Ironman Germany	Frankfurt am Main	Jan Raphael	08:19:31
July 10, 2011	3rd rank	Ironman Switzerland	Zurich	Mathias Hecht	08:30:26
July 3, 2011	1st rank	Ironman Austria	Klagenfurt	Marino Vanhoenacker	07:45:58
June 26, 2011	2nd rank	Ironman Coeur d'Alene	Idaho	Maik Twelsiek	08:24:59
May 29, 2011	1st rank	TriStar111 Germany	Worms	Markus Fachbach	03:16:58
May 21, 2011	1st rank	Ironman Lanzarote	Puerto del Carmen	Timo Bracht	08:30:34
May 7, 2011	1st rank	Ironman St. George	St. George	Mathias Hecht	08:32:03
May 7, 2011	2nd rank	Ironman St. George	St. George	Maik Twelsiek	08:33:46
April 17, 2011	3rd rank	TriStar111 Mallorca	Portocolom	Normann Stadler	03:41:00
March 12, 2011	2nd rank	Abu Dhabi International Triathlon	Abu Dhabi	Marino Vanhoenacker	06:43:31
March 5, 2011	3rd rank	Ironman New Zealand	Taupo	Mathias Hecht	08:45:34

2010 season

date	placement	competition	venue	athlete	time
November 21, 2010	1st rank	Ironman Arizona	Tempe	Timo Bracht	08:07:16
October 9, 2010	3rd rank	Ironman Hawaii	Hawaii	Marino Vanhoenacker	08:13:14
July 25, 2010	3rd rank	Ironman USA	Lake Placid	Maik Twelsiek	08:48:33
4th July 2010	1st rank	Ironman Austria	Klagenfurt	Marino Vanhoenacker	07:52:05
4th July 2010	2nd rank	Ironman Germany	Frankfurt	Timo Bracht	08: 10: 22.2
June 13, 2010	3rd rank	City triathlon Heilbronn	Heilbronn	Timo Bracht	03:00:06
June 6, 2010	1st rank	Challenge Kraichgau	Kraichgau	Normann Stadler	03:54:22
June 6, 2010	1st rank	German championship middle distance	Kulmbach	Markus Fachbach	03:53:37
June 6, 2010	1st rank	Water city triathlon	Hanover	Jan Raphael	03:59:02
May 22, 2010	3rd rank	Ironman Lanzarote	Puerto del Carmen	Maik Twelsiek	08:42:52
April 25, 2010	2nd rank	Ironman South Africa	Port Elizabeth	Mathias Hecht	08:28:53
February 27, 2010	1st rank	Ironman Malaysia	Langkawi	Marino Vanhoenacker	08:22:31

2009 season

date	placement	competition	venue	athlete	time
August 16, 2009	3rd rank	Ironman 70.3 Germany	Wiesbaden	Mathias Hecht	04:05:52
August 2, 2009	1st rank	Antwerp Ironman 70.3	Antwerp	Marino Vanhoenacker	03:41:45
July 26, 2009	1st rank	Ironman USA	Lake Placid	Maik Twelsiek	08:36:37
July 5, 2009	1st rank	Ironman Germany	Frankfurt	Timo Bracht	07:59:16
July 5, 2009	1st rank	Ironman Austria	Klagenfurt	Marino Vanhoenacker	08:01:38
June 7, 2009	1st rank	Water city triathlon	Hanover	Jan Raphael	03:52:48
May 24, 2009	2nd rank	Ironman 70.3 Austria	St. Polten	Marino Vanhoenacker	03:54:18
April 5, 2009	1st rank	Ironman South Africa	Port Elizabeth	Marino Vanhoenacker	08:17:32

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Staschok: Sports sponsoring in the context of integrated communication using the example of triathlon . 2012 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ Detlef Hacke: The bank pays everything . In: Der Spiegel . April 21, 2008.
3. ↑ Press release: Commerzbank continues triathlon commitment from Dresdner Kleinwort . Commerzbank . June 16, 2009.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Daniel Müksch: Stadler and Bracht do it together . In: Focus . June 16, 2009.
5. ↑ Herbert Krabel: The end of Commerzbank team ( english ) In: slowtwitch.com . July 2, 2011.
6. ↑ Commerzbank team: Closed to Hawaii? In: tri-mag.de. Retrieved April 23, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Lennart Klocke: Commerzbank team clean even with follow-up analysis . In: tri-mag.de . 17th November 2014.
8. ↑ Commerzbank Triathlon Team . In: tri2b.com . November 24, 2009.