A mammoth event in Crimmitschau is just around the corner With a spectacular Superenduro race on Saturday ahead of the Sunday main event sweet spring weather greeted a strong line-up of riders for the long awaited first race of the HESG season on what was probably the most difficult track in the history of the series Just in time for the start of the Heaven or Hell Superenduro the wind had cleared from the area for a “side show” Superenduro planned for the Saturday night The best 12 riders entered the final over six minutes + 1 lap via preliminary races Milan Schmüser was unlucky and got stuck at the first tyre obstacle at the start He fought his way up to third place with a crazy race but out front Leon Hentschel circled lonely in front of Marc Wulf A post shared by Peter Schlüter (@hardenduroworld) Sunday morning dawned with riders facing the prologue qualification runs and the organisers facing a record number of participants at the start of a HESG prologue It caused organisers to tighten the schedule up and fit every rider in over a 60-minute period – it was a remarkable effort and no participant was hindered by traffic jams thanks to the staff Leon Hentschel set the best time and took the first victory of the day For the first time in HESG history there was a Women’s race The ladies were classified in Group Race 2 and duked it out in the 90-minute race ahead of the main senior race Maria Franke had already laid the foundation for victory in the Prolog Award and the former Enduro Women World Champion pulled away as the race progressed and was able to win ahead of Eva Täuber and Samantha Buhmann The HET Reinsdorf club announced before the event that the course would become much more demanding in the final This was evident immediately after the start with many new sections testing riders Kevin Gallas took his chance at the beginning to take the lead the first ever champion of the Hard Enduro Series Germany pulled a small gap and was able to use this advantage in front of the reigning champion Leon Hentschel who came dangerously close to stealing P2 by the finish Chris Gundermann was also a positive surprise at this opening round the former MX rider from Thuringia finished in fourth place Milan Schmüser is the first winner of the Auto Center Erzgebirge Junior classification He wasn’t satisfied with fifth place in the championship standings having lost too much time in the first lap and a gap too big to close down Rene Dietrich was a new winner in the Seniors' category The “middle-aged man” (their words not ours!) beat the former champion Dirk Peter with the reigning champion still a relatively unknown pilot who finished 27th who had a mammoth programme; he came directly from Serbia and the Xross Hard Enduro World Championship round The next round of the DOWATEK HardEnduroSeries Germany will take place in next weekend Saturday May 28 More information: www.hardenduro-germany.de Create a personal Enduro21 account to access our new forum receive exclusive competitions and money saving offers Enduro21 is all about motorcycle enduro and off-road riding. Read more Donations to Enduro21 can make a huge difference to what we do Learn more We're on the lookout for writers, photographers, videographers and enduro enthusiasts, from all around the world. Read more This website uses cookies that are necessary to its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the privacy policy By accepting this OR scrolling this page OR continuing to browse This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Chris Stewart to join Czech teamUSATODAYWayne Simmonds and Chris Stewart are moving from Germany's second division to the top league in the Czech Republic The locked-out NHL friends had been on a 30-day contract with the Crimmitschau Ice Pirates and it was expiring soon They will leave on Monday and will play for Liberec which is second to last in the Czech league "Wayne and Chris wanted to stay together and Liberec was one of a handful of elite league teams that could add two players," said their agent Simmonds, who had a breakthrough 2011-12 season with the Philadelphia Flyers, led the Ice Pirates with 14 points in nine games. He also had a team-high 35 penalty minutes and his fight with Fischtown's Ralf Rinke has been viewed nearly 70,000 times on YouTube Louis Blues' Stewart was tied for the team lead with five goals and was third with 11 points The fans were one of the best they ever played in front of and the coach and management treated them first class," King said Liberec is led by former NHL player Petr Nedved Edmonton Oilers defenseman Ladislav Smid and Winnipeg Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec also play there the opportunity Liberec presented was one that we felt we needed to explore," King said the German Hard Enduro series has been hampered more than most national series due to the pandemic and effects on social gatherings in Germany With freestyler Kai Haase and several other international participants the series started its third season strongly in the dramatic Crimmitschau quarry The ‘Endurides Prolog’ starts the weekend and settles the start order with three-minute loop Tim Apolle led the classification for a long time but as the riders who started later had a better track Max Faude and then Marc Wulf mixed up the results If the focus of the entire 60 minutes main race was the battle between Leon Hentschel and Tim Apolle then one hillclimb proved to be the feature of the course Both riders had previously won their respective group races and went into the race side-by-side Czech riders Vaclav Nedved and Ulli Gramersberger were also in the mix causing a few surprises as nobody expected these two riders to keep up the pace at the front When the organisers opened up a difficult slope in lap two Hentschel made the decisive maneuver and to overtake Apolle who struggled just enough to reach the summit Apolle tried to close the gap but Hentschel held on to take the flag and round one win Leon Hentschel had positive words at the finish: “My start was mixed so I was able to catch up with him and overtake him I'm really happy about the victory.” who scored his first podium in Germany with a solid performance Timo Jungmann was the first winner of the 2021 senior class The rider from Hessen beat Przemek Kaczmarczyk from Poland in the daily classification but in the overall standings as he became the second best series rider behind Jungmann Milan Schmüser was unlucky in the junior class as he collided with other riders at the start and started as last he was able to get back to the front again in Crimmitschau and on the last lap overtook Paul-Erik Huster to clinch victory The first round of the German season was the first running of HESG-E a new class for the series (and in Europe) with electric bikes in extreme enduro The HESG-E race was part of the prologue and then also competed in the second group race The Alta rider is now the first leader in this class the Baur Gruppe team took the opening round win The next round of the MAXXIS HardEnduroSeries Germany is in Reisersberg Photo Credit: TK420 | Toni Keller + Ina Klemer Forward Mathieu Lemay is the latest addition to Nottingham Panthers' rosters for the new season The 28-year-old joins the Panthers after three seasons in the DEL2 with Eispiraten Crimmitschau where he scored 61 goals and 82 assists for 143 points in 126 matches assists (37) and points (68) before following-up with two more free-scoring campaigns the winger hit 85 points while at Sterzing/Vipiten in the Alps League in his first European stop  "Mathieu is a dynamic player that has a great scoring ability He is a player that we feel will adjust well to the league with his speed work ethic and shot," explained Head Coach Joanthan Paredes "His separation from defenders is very impressive and he's a player that fits perfectly with our philosophy." Braehead Clan have confirmed the signing of netminder Ryan Nie who joins from German DEL2 side Eispiraten Crimmitschau Braehead Clan have confirmed the signing of netminder Ryan Nie from German DEL2 side Eispiraten Crimmitschau The 32-year-old played under new Clan coach John Tripp during his time in Germany and he says he sought out the views of two men very familiar with the Elite League in recent times as he weighed up his move to Glasgow “I’ve heard nothing but good things about Braehead Clan and I actually played with Scott Pitt and against Matt Beca who I reached out to and asked questions to,” said Nie “They spoke positively about their time at the club I was told it’s a winning organisation and they expect to continue that into next year “It’s a small world and my parent’s neighbour was originally from Glasgow and I was talking to him about it so it seems like a great city and I’m excited for the move “I’m really excited for the new campaign and excited for the change My wife studied abroad a few years ago and visited Scotland and she’s looking forward to going back too.” Nie has spent the last three and a half years at Crimmitschau He played over 175 games for the German side in his time there who has persuaded him to make the move to Scotland He said: “Ryan’s been one of the top goalies in the German second league for a while now with Crimmitschau He hasn’t had a lot of success and now he’s keen to turn the page “I like his character and I’m glad to have him on board He’s a good family man and he’s played a lot of games and can take 50 shots a game “If you ask anyone about him in that league they would say he kept the team in it a lot in recent years and I expect him to take on a change of mindset and a winning one Ryan’s well tested and I don’t want him to take 50 shots a night although it’s going slower than I intended but there are still so many names out there We’re cracking away at it and there’s no rush.” Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" For the Elite League’s top-four regular-season teams The Belfast Giants held their nerve on a weekend of high drama to claim.. 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The Elite League remains as unpredictable as ever With bright sunshine and temperatures above 20 degrees made two action-packed race days last weekend There was much praise from the riders for the challenging track and “a perfect race weekend” The ACE Bikes Prolog Award took place in Crimmitschau on Saturday evening Over 170 participants faced the rocky prologue enduro test one of the youngest riders in the entry list put on a remarkable ride to top the times in 05:34.844 minutes three seconds faster than Sonny Goggia who crashed just before the finish line A post shared by Peter Schlüter (@hardenduroworld) The group races were a challenge for everyone with temperatures over 20 degrees and the HET Reinsdorf organising crew integrating some difficult sections allowing the hard enduro specialists to prepare for the even tougher final without being too hard for the hobby riders Sonny Goggia and Felix Bähker came out on top but were outshone by Linus Albert delivering a brilliant performance with his 85cc machine qualifying for the main race despite the obvious disadvantage on the small bike The finale started at 3:15 PM over a distance of 1 hour and 20 minutes plus 1 lap as many sections had never been ridden before and no one knew how it would develop and in fact some sections had to be removed from the track during the race Felix Bähker had a stroke of bad luck in the first lap; he injured his hand again Goggia meanwhile took the lead from the start with Hentschel able to keep up early in the race but Goggia pulled away – even without drinking after his hydration pack burst at the beginning Since he crossed the finish line four minutes before the end of the race duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes he had a lead of six minutes over Leon Hentschel he had words of praise for the track: “At the beginning I made some mistakes because the track wasn’t easy It was also good training for the first World Championship races.” Said Goggia Hentschel was also satisfied with his race He always stayed in second place and had a larger gap to his pursuers which now also brought him to second place in the standings: “The track was really fun I'm super happy with my performance.” Lenny Geretzky secured his first podium finish of the season the Crimmitschau track much more to his liking: “It was a really beautiful hard enduro track Geretzky also clinched the first daily victory of the season in the junior category The other class victories went to Goggia (PRO) The challenge for British rider Charlie Frost was to struggle through the pack after a rule violation on Saturday before the event and consequently relegation to the back of the field But an impressive display on the Beta saw him advance from last place to fourth Starting six minutes after the first rider he battled through all the traffic jams and secured important points for the championship The series organisation also drew a decidedly positive conclusion Series manager Denis Günther said: “The collaboration with HET Reinsdorf worked perfectly this year The dam sections from previous years were also perfectly adjusted resulting in a truly spectacular race weekend we have once again reached a new level of support from both drivers and fans The next HESG race takes place on May 25 in Hamma, Thuringia. 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More information: www.hardenduro-germany.de   Photo Credit: Michel238pic | Michel Kuchel Nottingham strengthen roster with Canadian forward (Photo: Sportbuzzer.de) Nottingham Panthers have completed the signing of Canadian forward Julian Talbot The 34-year-old joins the Panthers from Crimmitschau in the DEL2 where he has seven points in as many games and went on to spend six seasons with Eisbären Berlin where he totalled over 300 games and 200 points in the DEL A season in the EBEL with the KAC returned 21 points in 59 games before spending last season in Crimmitschau and scoring 54 points Talbot has significant European experience with 27 Champions Hockey League games over his spells in the Austrian and German top flights The development of Trützschler over the course of 125 years and four generations has been a tremendous success The most important factors for this have been and still are its high innovative strength and the flexibility of a family-owned company Trützschler stands for technological leadership and occupies a top position concerning economic efficiency and reliability of the machines and systems provided the Trützschler Group now has approximately 3,000 employees worldwide at nine production sites Paul Heinrich Trützschler registered a forge and metal working shop in Crimmitschau Right from the start the business focused on service for textile companies Though initially the emphasis was on repairs it was only a matter of a few years before the first machines were manufactured in-house Tearing machines and cotton cleaning machines were the first main products was the most popular product of that period developed the company into a successful industrial enterprise during the 1920s and 1930s Trützschler machines were shipped worldwide The Second World War did not pass without leaving its mark on the company an attempt was made to rebuild the company Crimmitschau was located in the Soviet occupation zone The concept of the occupying force did not allow for a family business and the brothers Karl and Willy were detained made a new beginning in Rheydt/Mönchengladbach This new foundation quickly turned into a company with international standing again Trützschler started its international expansion already at the end of the 1960s by establishing a production facility in Charlotte production facilities were established at Curitiba in Brazil and at Ahmedabad in India Founding these companies in the large markets was an outstanding corporate accomplishment The milestones in the development of the company are pneumatic card feeding in 1963 addition of the draw frame to the product range in 1992 as well as start-up of the in-house construction of electronic controls at the end of the 1970s initially a technology co-operation was formed with a local partner in 1993 a company-owned production facility was established in Shanghai This step was crucial for Trützschler’s success in the Chinese spinning preparation machine market even in the face of fierce local competition In a joint development with Toyota Industries Corp. the product range for spinning preparation installations was expanded by the comber the comber was presented for the first time Michael Schürenkrämer and Heinrich Trützschler three new business divisions were established during the past 10 years The founding of Trützschler Card Clothing in 2003 was based on an acquisition of the clothing specialist Hollingsworth Trützschler Nonwovens emerged from the former companies The segments of Fleissner (machines for the production of man-made fibers) and SwissTex AG (machines for industrial and carpet yarns) make up the fourth business division