Six Days of Zurich

Switzerland, November 29 - December 4, 1999
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Preview:

By Tomas Nilsson

The oval in Zürich is 250 meters long which gives room for more riders, 17 pairs, and also makes it harder to gain a lap.

Home crowd favorites Bruno Risi and Kurt Betschart, who have won five times in Zürich, had a seemingly weak performance at Gent. However, if Betschart has recovered from his "sitting problems" the pair is definitely among the favorites - after all they won the season's debut in Dortmund, while in Munich they were second after "sleeping" in the final chase. Silvio Martinello and Andreas Kappes not only came up on the same lap but also managed to gain one in Munich.

Race manager Urs Freuler has managed to put some interesting pairs against his compatriots. Gent winner Scott McGrory will ride with ex-compatriot Matt Gilmore while the other winner from Gent, Jimmi Madsen will ride with Kappes. Italian dream team Martinello and Adriano Baffi are now back with "ordinary" mates. Baffi will once again ride with Andrea Collinelli, the winning combination in Grenoble, while Martinello is paired with old mate Marco Villa for the first time this season.

Due to illness Etienne de Wilde's partner, Michael Sandstød (Den) was replaced by Tayeb Braikia, leaving Swiss Franco Marvulli out of the race, thus it was reduced to 16 pairs.

There will also be a sprinter's competition with German Keirin World Champion Jens Fiedler, his compatriot Jan van Eijden and among others the Swiss riders Patrick Merk and Claudio Treig.

The Swiss road stars will also have a four day derny competition from Tuesday to Friday with Oscar Camenzind, Alex Zülle, Roland and Armin Meier, Markus and Beat Zberg, Rolf Järmann, Niki Aebersold and Pascal Richard in the field. It should be an action packed few days of racing!

Starting list, Main competition: 

1. Juan Llaneras (Spa)/Isaac Galvez (Spa)
2. Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Scott McGrory (Aus)
3. Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Jimmi Madsen (Den)
4. Guido Fulst (Ger)/Torsten Rund (Ger)
5. Etienne de Wilde (Bel)/Tayeb Braikia (Den)
6. Markus Kammermann (Swi)/Marcel Dunkel (Swi)
7. Rob Hayles (Gbr)/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr)
8. Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi)
9. Erik Weisspfennig (Ger)/Stefan Steinweg (Ger)
10. Christian Weber (Swi)/Jens Lehmann (Ger)
11. Mario Vonhof (Ger)/Gerd Dörich (Ger)
12. Lorenzo Lapage (Be)/Frank Corvers (Bel)
13. Adriano Baffi (Ita)/Andrea Collinelli (Ita)
14. Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita)
15. Patrick Vetsch (Swi)/ lexander Aeschbach (Swi)
16. Peter Jörg (Swi)/Lars Teutenberg (Ger)

Sprinters: 

Jens Fiedler (Ger)
Anthony Peden (Nzl)
Ainars Kiksis (Lat)
Barry Forde (Bar)
Jan van Eijden (Ger)
Claudio Treig (Swi)
Patrick Merk (Swi)

Coop Derny Classic:

80+80+100+120 laps, Tuesday to Friday:

Markus Zberg
Oscar Camenzind
Alex Zülle
Beat Zberg
Niki Aebersold
Roland Meier
Pascal Richard
Armin Meier
Rolf Järmann

Stayers:

The stayers competition has most of the top riders in this dicipline:

Carsten Podlesch (Ger)
Hanskurt Brand (Swi)
Felice Puttini (Swi)
Sabino Cannone (Ita)
Christoph Göhring (Swi)
Ralf Keller (Ger)
Ronald Rol (Ned)
Lubomir Mazel (Cze)

Amateurs:

The amateurs six days is mostly a national affair with Germans Kalfack/Appler and Belgians de Duytsche/Veermerch as foreign favoutites while Fäh/Pfister is expected to defend the Swiss colours.

1. André Kalfack/Marco Appler (Ger)
2. Patrick Fäh/Marcel Pfister (Swi)
3. Martin Liska/Josef Zabka (Svk)
4. Karsten Wörner/Sven Epple (Ger)
5. Luc de Duytsche/Nicki Veermersch (Bel)
6. Ralph Zimmermann/Martial Heer (Swi)
7. Stafen Schär/Oliver Mattmann (Swi)
8. Gregor Gut/Beat Obrist (Swi)
9. Pascal Manser (Swi)/Stefan Mittelhammer (Ger)
10. Jan Brunner/Philippe Weingartner (Swi)
11. Patrick Banfi/Reto Lauper (Swi)
12. Michael Morf/Kevin Jaeggi (Swi)
13. Simon Ganz/Adrian Osterwalder (Swi)
14. Tobias Baumgartner/Michael Müller (Swi)
15. Patrick Kraus/René Furrer (Swi)
16. Michael Roth/Alexander Mattmann (Swi)
17. Phillip Dambach/Marco Hartmann (Swi)

Starting list revision courtesy of Ernst Bretscher