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New Years Run - Kempten 31.12.2009

Yvonne van Vlerken also wins the New Year ́s Run in Kempten.Only four days after her victory at the Altacher-New Year's- run Yvonne van Vlerken also won the traditional 10k-race in Kempten-Allgäu/Ger. Yvonne van Vlerken (Tri Team Lustenau/Endurance Team Austria) allowed herself no long break after the fast race in Altach/AUT and closed her 2009-season with another unthreatened victory. In spite of a cold which she had caught during a snow-hike in Austria in between the two runs, she decided not to dissapoint the spectators in Kempten and lined up. Even with the health-issue van Vlerken won the race in 36:57 min and had a gap of more than 1:30 min to the second-placed female.Partner Thomas J. Vonach (Tri Team Lustenau/Endurance Team Austria) who did not compete in run events for several years, fought brave and clocked a 36:18 min to take 4th in his category and beat his girlfriend:-). He took 25th overall. among the run specialists and was the second-fastest Austrian in the field. The young German middle-distance specialist Richard Ringer won in 31:59min.

New Years-Run Altach 27.12.2009

Yvonne van Vlerken wins 12th Altacher-New Year's Eve run with a new course-record in 45:34 min for 12.4 km. New participant record with more than 1000 starters.
Yvonne van Vlerken (Tri Team Lustenau/Endurance Team Austria) has won the 12th Altacher-New Year's Eve run with a tactically clever race against the highly decorated Swiss run-specialist Claudia Helfenberger-Wepf, female overall winner of the Swiss Mountain-Marathon Cup '08, in an exciting race and new course-record.
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Only four weeks after her victory at Ironman Cozumel in Mexico Yvonne had to dig deeper than she had maybe expected. On three of the four laps the Swiss successfully hindered van Vlerken, partially with body effort, to take over the lead.
Therefore the race had to be decided in a sprint-finish. Yvonne van Vlerken already started her attack tactically wisely 600 m before the finish with a dynamic sprint which the Swiss could only follow about 300 m, in spite of using body and hands. Up to the finish-line the 31-year-old Dutch Austrian-Resident van Vlerken outdistanced the Swiss over 8 seconds and won with a new course- record.
Her race placed her 7th overall in the men ́s field!
In the men ́s race the Swiss Daniel Thür took an unthreatened victory in 41:18 min.