Triathlon Magazin By Spiridon

I picked up these 6 copies of Triathlon Magazin on eBay Kleinanzeigen recently. Triathlon was a German language magazine published by Spiridon Verlag between 1985 and 1997. From 1998 onwards the triathlon content was absorbed into Spiridon. The famous running title.

The French language running magazine Spiridon was launched in Switzerland in 1972. The goal of the magazine was to encourage running for fitness.

Images:
Triathlon Magazin (DE) Februar 1986
Triathlon Magazin (DE) August 1986
Triathlon Magazin (DE) November 1986
Triathlon Magazin (DE) April 1987
Triathlon Magazin (DE) Juni 1987
Triathlon Magazin (DE) Oktober 1987

Soon the readers of the magazine started to form Spiridon Running Clubs. In Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and Canada. These new clubs also got involvedd in the organisation of local races.

A German language version of Spiridon was first published in 1974 by journalist and 1972 Olympic marathoner Manfred Steffny. His brother is two-eleven marathoner Herbert Steffny.

In 1975 one of the Spiridon founders, Noël Tamini, combined with Jean-Claude Pont, the race director of Sierre-Zinal*, to start the Coupe Internationale de la Montagne (CIME). Their objective was to promote international mountain and fell running competition.

I’m not sure if any of the Spiridons are still going. More research is needed. But there seems to be a cool tribute site selling merch.

I’ve found some super-articles in Triathlon. About the 1986 and 1987 Le Coq Series. And some triathlons close to me. Munich. And Bodensee. I’m also using the magazines to continue to work on my German.

*The first edition was in 1974.