Older newsRecent news
Alpinisme
>
News 
Maximilien Drion in gold at Pierra Menta

Maximilien Drion in gold at Pierra Menta

There's the Mans's 24 hours for cars. The Hawaian Ironman for triathlon. And the Pierra Menta for alpin skiing. Last weekend, The Belgian Maximilien Drion walked on the highest marched of the junior podium. He comments: "The Pierra Menta is the alpin skiing's mythical race firstly because of it's hard tracks and also because of it's atmosphere."
This year, the event took place in Savoie in the Arêches station. The participating athletes took place in a race with 10.000 meters of up hill split over 4 days. For the junior category which Maximilien participated in, the organisors limited the up hill to 2400 meters over two days. In partnership with Pierre Mettan (member of the Swiss Team), Maximilien gave all he had to finally finish with 38 seconds of advance on the Italian pair composed by Andra Prandi et Nicolo Canclini.
This huge success follows a third place he already had a couple of weeks ago during the European alpine skiing Championship. The satisfaction is huge in Maximilien Drion's family. This new face on the podium made the speaker say the good he thought of new countries appearing in the discipline. Let's hope, this performance will give some ideas to other young skiers.

Maximilien Drion's blog



(1)


You must be logged in to leave a comment

Register


03/12/2016
Awesome, Triathlons will keep you fit for sure! Follow me on Soul id at https://soulid.me/id/Climbing ... Really looking forward to diving more into this site.

19/09/2019
Its nice getting such infos on climbing and adventures on valleys and hills tops.


Related content 
Newsarchive 

Photos 

News 
7th in Kranj, Anak Verhoeven ends up 4th of the World Cup 2014

Competition 7th in Kranj, Anak Verhoeven ends up 4th of the World Cup 2014

Last weekend, it is with a 7th place in Kranj that Anak Verhoeven finishes her first adults international season. Being very regular, the Belgian finishes like she started. With a place in the final. Anak got a 4th place in the general ranking.


Loic Timmermans in silver at the Youth World Championships in Nouméa

Competition Loic Timmermans in silver at the Youth World Championships in Nouméa

Loic Timmermans ends in a perfect way his youth career. He has been on so many podium since he is a young kid and got this morning his last medal. During the Youth World Championship that took place in Nouméa, the Belgian ended in silver in Junior.