July 17th, 2016 -  Speck meets DATEV-Challenge

Hundreds of visitors have experienced high-performance sports on top level

For the 15th time, the largest triathlon event in the world - the DATEV Challenge - took place in Roth on July 17th 2016.

As a major sponsor, SPECK now opened for the second time its top spot along the marathon track, which runs through the premises at kilometer 3.7 and 35.5.

Four SPECK relay teams and two individual starters of SPECK played an active role in the DATEV Challenge. We are happy about the participation of our representative Huckauf Ingenieure from Langenfeld. They added two further relay teams to the Speck Team.

All other sports-mad employees supported as volunteers or "cheerleaders" and gave their best to present the visitors and athletes a tremendous and outstanding competition. Torsten Hahn and Martin Hundt informed the visitors about the race competently and pushed the athletes to top performances.

The visit of Federal State Minister of Justice Heiko Maas highlighted our event, as he witnessed the SPE(C)Ktacle first hand.

This year we have been privileged to welcome the Porsche Zentrum Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen as an exhibitor on our hot spot. Our guests could make themselves familiar with the next generation of Porsche sports cars.

Gasthof Winkler from Alfershausen created „Fast-Food-Schmankerl“ – like beef burgers, veggie burgers and Franconian specialties – and that was to the taste of our visitors.

The athletes of Team SPECK were very satiesfied with the results of the course. Their goals could be reached and sometimes they even managed to beat the timelimits set by themselves. At the end of the day, all athletes and supporters met in a get-together to pass the competition in review.

As expected,  Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno won the triathlon. With a tremendous time of 7:35:39 hours he beat the existing world record of 7:41:33 hours for the long distance course. The women's race won Daniela Ryf from Switzerland and finished the competition over 3.8 km swimming, 180 km biking and a 42.195 Kilometer marathon with her personal record of 8:22:04 hours.

We like to thank all athletes, visitors and especially the supporters for this wonderful and successful day and look forward to the next exciting challenge on 9th July 2017.