Potrebitsch with good memories back in Almere

Although the Amsterdam-Almere Challenge celebrates on Saturday (September 14) its premiere, a classic is the event in the Netherlands, which is now taking place for the first time under the label of the global Challenge series, but for decades. How to end this race with a victory Georg Potrebitsch knows: In 2008 and 2009 he won there already. On Saturday he will do everything to return to land in front.

On the trail of success
He was "really tired in the last days. Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's the extremely long workouts," says Georg Potrebitsch a week before his start on the long distance at the Challenge Amsterdam-Almere. But that is no reason for concern, "because the training was very good and my test in Nordhausen was it too. I'm really looking forward to the race in Holland." For sure, because Potrebitsch has already decided the competition in 2008 and 2009 in the Netherlands twice for himself. In 2008, he also secured the world title of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) - backthen as an amateur.

"Hopefully bad weather"
After finishing second at the Challenge Taiwan and the start at the Challenge Roth, Challenge Amsterdam-Almere is now already the third long-distance triathlon for Georg Potrebitsch in 2013. A similar success as in Taiwan is quite possible for the athlete of the POWER HORSE Triathlon Team. On a good day it may even be enough to win. "The conditions are easy to me. The flat and windy bike course fits me, now I just hope for bad weather,” says Little George, as he is known in triathlon circles, his forecast for race day.