Max­im Chane and Alizée Paties win XTERRA Nou­velle-Aquitaine

The first “real” XTERRA race of the 2020 sea­son in Europe took place in France at the week­end, and it was a pre­miere event that received this hon­our. The XTERRA Nou­velle-Aqui­tane passed this tri­al by fire with about 350 par­tic­i­pants from 10 nations. How­ev­er with­out Ger­man par­tic­i­pa­tion.

The dom­i­nance of the French in the elite sec­tor, espe­cial­ly among the men, which became more and more vis­i­ble in the last years, will obvi­ous­ly con­tin­ue in 2020. The dom­i­nance is impres­sive: In the men’s cat­e­go­ry, it was only with old mas­ter Ruben Ruzafa (ESP) in 6th place that the pha­lanx of Gauls was bro­ken through. Max­im Chane took the vic­to­ry, as he did at the French Nation­al Cham­pi­onships. Two and four min­utes after him, the two per­ma­nent rivals Arthur & Arthur crossed the fin­ish line.

Alizée Paties also made sure that the women’s vic­to­ry will remain in France. How­ev­er, sec­ond place went to Italy. Mar­ta Men­dit­to made sure of that. On 3rd place was Eme­line Azam, a French age grouper from France.