Hawaii for everyone Everything to know about the Bonn triathlon
Bonn · Everything you need to know about the Bonn triathlon next Sunday - from sporty details to athletes and public transport changes.
Olympic champion and canoeist, Max Rendschmidt, is taking part in the SWB Energie & Wasser Triathlon in Bonn because he always wanted to enter an endurance triathlon. Rendschmidt is one of the 1,638 participants in the 27th edition of the traditional event next Sunday.
The Bonn triathlon is not just any endurance triathlon. Since 1991 it is featured on every contest calendar. It was that time when the hype around the versatile trial for long distance athletes in water, on bike and on land began: 14 years prior, 15 athletes established the legendary image of the Ironman in Hawaii, when they covered the gigantic distances of 2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles cycling and 26.2 miles running. Without respite.
A myth was born. More than a hint of that will waft through Bonn, when the SWB Energie & Wasser Triathlon advances in its 27th year to be a „Hawaii for everyone“. For the athletes who face a swimming distance like in Hawaii, albeit aided by the stream current, and for the spectators on the Kennedy bridge on the Beuel side of the river bank, where the changing zone and the finish line is in sight. The whole spectacle starts at 9.30 am, when the first athletes climb out of the Rhine. Until approximately 2pm when the majority of the 1,638 enrolled participants reach the finish line. Most of them will have been on the go for over four hours at that stage.
Various „parties“ along the challenging cycling route through Ennert and the Siebengebirge to Ägidienberg are going to „carry“ the athletes. The best-known example: For the fifth time the HSV Bockeroth organises a fan fest with the title „athletes support athletes“ at the Bockerother Berg, which the participants pass twice, from 10am on.
Olympic champion and canoeist, Max Rendschmidt, is taking on the challenges of the triathlon and expects to „die a thousand deaths“ during the for him unfamiliarly long running route. „I always wanted to do this and now, a year since Olympia, it finally happens, because there is no other contest this weekend.“
For more please see: www.bonn-triathlon.de.
Public transport changes:
The buses will give way to the athletes this Sunday, between 9am and 2pm. Due to the triathlon, parts of the Siegburger Straße, the Pützchens Chaussee as well as the crossing of the Pützchens Chaussee/Holtorfer Straße will be closed off. Six bus lines get diverted, because some stops cannot be reached or needed to be relocated.
The following stops of the 550, 603, 608, 609, 636 and 640 lines are affected:
- The „Pantheon Beuel“ stops will not be accessible in both directions. The same is the case for the stops „Röhfeldstraße“, „Röhfeldstraße Ost“, „Pützchen Kloster“ and „Pützchen Kirche“ in the direction of Gielgen and the stops „Rheindorfer Straße“ and „An der Wolfsburg“.
- The „Pützchen Schule“ stop towards Gielgen will be moved to the Friedenstraße.
- The „Schwarzrheindorf Schule“ stop for both directions will be moved to the Clemensstraße near the Werdstraße/Vilicher Straße.
(Original text: Berthold Mertes; ga / Translation: Mareike Graepel)
