Le Mans 2017

03.07.2017

Traditionally, at the first weekend in July the 24-hours Le Mans race took place on the car racing circuit (Bugatti circuit) in Le Mans, France.

376 teams participated in several categories:
• Prestige (7-10 members)
• Decouverte (11-10 members)
• Endurance (3-6 members)
• Quads (7-10 members with skates quads)
• Duo (two-member team)
• Solo (one-person team)

The categories were divided into female teams (femme) and mixed teams (mixed - only men or men and women).
The skaters from 25 countries attended and this year Czech racers didn't miss it again. In the category Decouverte mixte it was a team Prague speed arrows which contained skaters from Prague as well from various outside Prague clubs. One of the members is also a member of our TEMPISH inline team Zdeněk Sauer, who made with other skaters 152 rounds (one round of 4.2km), that means approximately 636 km. The Prague speed arrows team took with this result 10th place among the 76 teams in the Prestige mixed category, in total of all the teams was on the 48th place. The Czech team Prague speed arrows had to fight in their category with this year's best team of Top Skaters / MRS, who dominated this year with the 201 rounded.
Another TEMPISH inline team member in Le Mans was Hana Duspivova, who along with Erika Pavelkova and Slovakian Claudia Dohaničova completed a British team London Galactics.
This six-member female team took 30th place in total with the 161 rounded and 673 kilometres, what made 3. place in the Endurance femme category, they lost just one round to the second place and three rounds to the first place.
Czech skaters left Le Mans very exhausted, struggling this year not only with rivals and fatigue, but also with a bad weather, they are satisfied with the results.