Six Days of Zürich

Switzerland, November 29 - December 4, 1999

Night 2 - November 30th

Reported by Ernst Bretscher

In the main race on the second night, the 50km Madison ended with three teams one lap ahead of another three teams. Kappes/Madsen won the final Sprint and the flowers ahead of Martinello/Villa and Gilmore/McGrory.

The first night leaders of Risi/Betschart lost three places to go one lap behind, with Kappes/Madsen taking the overall lead ahead of the three teams with fewer points. In the second part of the night (which ended at 1am) the three teams passed the limit of more than 100 points, but not Risi/Betschart.

The classification shows after the second night Madsen/Kappes, Martinello/Villa and Gilmore/Mc Grory one lap ahead of Risi/Betschart. But most probably all will change on Wednesday evening, when the 100-minute Madison will give a better indication of the likely outcome.

The Derny Race - with nine of the best Swiss road champions entered - was a popular event on the second night, with the crowd of 4000 treated to a close local win to Markus Zberg as all nine riders finished within 150 metres.

In the Sprint William Peden won on the second night the 250 m time-trial in 13.52 seconds ahead of Jens Fiedler (13.56) and Swiss rider Patrik Merk (13.62). After two sprints (won by Treig and Kiksis) and a Keirin-race (Winner Fiedler) Fiedler is the overall leader after the first night.

In the amateur race the victory went to the Belgian team and last year's champions Vermeersch/De Duytsche, who won ahead of the Slovakian team of Liska/Zabka, who remain in the overall lead.

Results:

Courtesy of Pascal Meisser

Standings after night two:

1. Andreas Kappes/Jimmy Madsen (Ger/Den)    117 points
2. Silvio Martinello/Marco Villa (Ita)      105
3. Matthew Gilmore/Scott McGrory (Bel/Aus)  100

1 lap behind::
4. Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart (Swi)           99

2 laps behind::
5. Adriano Baffi/Andrea Colinelli (Ita)      77
6. Etienne de Wilde/Tayeb Braikia (Bel/Den)  66

5 laps behind::
7. Frank Corvers/Laurenzo Lapage (Be)         6

6 laps behind::
8. Christian Weber/Jens Lehmann (Swi/Ger)     68
9. Eric Weisspfennig/Stefan Steinweg (Ger)    27
10. Peter Jörg/Lars Teutenberg (Swi/Ger)      24
11. Juan Llaneras/Isaac Galvez (Esp)          19

7 laps behind::
12. Mario Vonhof/Gerd Dörich (Ger)            25
13. Rob Hayles/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr)          21
14. Patrick Vetsch/Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)  14

9 laps behind::
15. Guido Fulst/Torsten Rund (Ger)            22

18 laps behind::
16. Markus Kammermann/Marcel Dunkel (Swi)      9

1. Martin Liska/Josef Zabka (Slk)                35
2. Luc de Duytsche/Nicky Vermeersch (Bel)        28
3. Andre Kalfack/Marco Appler (Ger)              22
4. Patrick Fäh/Marcel Pfister (Swi)              21
5. Karsten Wörner/Sven Epple (Ger)               19
6. Gregor Gut/Beat Obrist (Swi)                   7
7. Pascal Manser/Stefan Mittelhammer (Swi/Ger)    0
8. Jan Brunner/Philippe Weingartner (Swi)         0
9. Patrick Banfi/Reto Lauper (Swi)                0
10. Simon Ganz/Adrian Osterwalder (Swi)           0

1 lap behind:
11. Ralph Zimmermann/Martial Heer (Swi)           0

3 laps behind:
12. Tobias Baumgartner/Michael Müller (Swi)       0

6 laps behind:
13. Stefan Schär/Oliver Mattmann (Swi)            0
14. Michael Roth/Alexander Mattmann (Swi)         0

7 laps behind:
15. Patrick Kraus/René Furrer (Swi)               0

9 laps behind:
16. Philipp Dambach/Marco Hartmann (Swi)          0

19 laps behind:
17. Michael Morf/Kevin Jaeggi (Swi)               0

1. Carsten Podlesch/Bruno Walrave (Ger)           3
2. Hanskurt Brand/René Aebi (Swi)                 3
3. Sabino Cannone/Dieter Durst (Ita)              6
4. Felice Puttini/Roberto Puttini (Swi)           9
5. Roland Rol/Robert Buchmann (Ned)              12
6. Lubomir Mazel/Helmut Baur (Cze)               13
7. Christoph Göhring/Peter Steiger (Swi)         13
8. Ralf Keller/Jos De Bakker (Ger)               13

1. Markus Zberg      9 points
2. Alex Zülle        8
3. Oscar Camenzind   7
4. Pascal Richard    6
5. Armin Meier       5
6. Beat Zberg        4
7. Roland Meier      3
8. Niki Aebersold    2
9. Rolf Järmann      1

1. Jens Fiedler (Ger)      1
2. Anthony Peden (NZ)      2
3. Ainars Klkis (Sat)      3
4. Claudio Treig (Swi)     4
5. Jan van Eiden (Ger)     5
6. Patrick Merck (Swi)     6
7. Barry Forde (Barbados)  7