Three-Country Championship 2018

Podium of all winners (from left to right): Luc Wirtgen, Robin Froidevaux, Jonas Rutsch, Lukas Rüegg, Max Kanter, Pit Leyder, Aaron Grosser, Marc Hirschi, Colin Heiderscheid

The 1st three-country championship took place on June 17, 2018 in the German district of Unna . As part of this competition, the U23 road championships were held jointly by Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The organizer of the first event was the RSV Unna. The circuit was 10.6 kilometers long and was driven 16 times, so the total length of the route was 169.6 kilometers. The start and finish was at Haus Opherdicke near Holzwickede . Each nation chose its own champion, and an overall winner was also honored. In memory of the founder of the RSV Unna, who died in 2017, the race was also called the Rheinhold-Böhm-Gedächtnisrennen . The artist Alfred Gockel created the trophy for the winner and the medals .

Around 200 racing drivers were registered, including around 140 starters from Germany, 30 from Switzerland and 20 from Luxembourg. Overall winner and thus German champion for the second time in a row was Max Kanter from Cottbus , Lukas Rüegg became Swiss champion , and Pit Leyder won the Luxembourg title .

In future, the joint championship will alternate between the three associations one week before the road championships in the elite class.

As early as 1974 to 1986 the championships for professionals took place as a three-nation championship together with the Swiss and Luxembourgers and from 1987 to 1994 with the Swiss and Liechtensteiners.

Results

Overall rating

space	nation	athlete	time
1		Max Kanter	4:00:45 h
2		Jonas Rutsch	equal time
3		Lukas Rüegg	equal time
4th		Pit Leyder	equal time
5		Aaron Grosser	equal time
6th		Robin Froidevaux	equal time
7th		Felix Gross	equal time
8th		Toni Franz	equal time
9		Marc Hirschi	equal time
10		Manuel Zobrist	equal time

Germany

Max Kanter: Overall winner and thus German U23 champion

space	athlete	time
1	Max Kanter	4:00:45 h
2	Jonas Rutsch	equal time
3	Aaron Grosser	equal time
4th	Felix Gross	equal time
5	Toni Franz	equal time
6th	Henrik Pakalski	equal time
7th	Sven Thurau	equal time
8th	Per Christian Münstermann	equal time
9	Christian Koch	equal time
10	Erik Schubert	equal time

Switzerland

Swiss podium (from left to right): Robin Froidevaux, Lukas Rüegg, Marc Hirschi

space	athlete	time
1	Lukas Rüegg	4:00:45 h
2	Robin Froidevaux	equal time
3	Marc Hirschi	equal time
4th	Manuel Zobrist	equal time
5	Joab Schneiter	equal time
6th	Mario Spengler	equal time
7th	Joel Suter	equal time
8th	Johan Jacobs	equal time
9	Reto Mueller	equal time
10	Yves Lütolf	equal time

Luxembourg

Podium Luxembourg (from left to right): Luc Wirtgen, Pit Leyer, Colin Reiderscheid

space	athlete	time
1	Pit Leyder	4:00:45 h
2	Luc Wirtgen	equal time
3	Colin Heiderscheid	equal time
4th	Jan Petelin	equal time
5	Tom Wirtgen	+ 5 s
6th	Felix Schreiber	+ 14 s
7th	Ken Conter	equal time
8th	Tiago da Silva	equal time
9	Tristan Parrotta	+ 22 s
10	Maxime Weyrich	+ 23 s

Web links

Commons : Three-Country Championship 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Overall result on rad-net.de
• Results Germany on rad-net.de
• Results Switzerland on rad-net.de
• Results Luxembourg on rad-net.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} U23-DM in future together with Luxembourg and Switzerland. In: rad-net.de. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 28, 2017 . 
2. ^ Reinhold Böhm memory race. In: zippelmuetz-magazin.de. March 8, 2018, accessed June 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Three-Country Championships. In: pain-spot.de. Retrieved June 17, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Start list (PDF file) Accessed June 17, 2018