The Streak Triathlon Podcast

Triathlon Stories. Past. Present. Future.

The 1995 FIT. As It Happened. Part 3.

December 17, 2025

Stage 1 of the 1995 France Irontour took place in Strasbourg, in the east of France on Sunday 20th August.

The questions the pundits were asking were: Will Simon Lessing be as dominant as in 1994? Or will multiple contenders show themselves?

The distances were: a 1500m swim in the Baggersee lake. A 40km draft-legal bike into town and back twice. And a 3 lap 10km mixed-surface run.

Here’s how it went.