Six Days of Zürich

Switzerland, November 29 - December 4, 1999

Night 3 - December 1st

As reported by Ernst Bretscher

The highlight of the third night, Wednesday evening (the night ended at 02.00 a.m. on Thursday-morning) was the 100 minutes Madison-race, which was held for the 44th time since 1956. 4,200 spectators saw in the second longest Zürich-Madison-race, the very clear domination of the team of 34 year-old Kappes and his partner, the 4 years younger Madsen. They took the lead 34 minutes before the end and were one lap ahead of all main opponents.

Twice, the other teams managed to come on the same lap, but Madsen/Kappes always countered and were one lap in front with 13 minutes to go. At this point Baffi/Colinelli and De Wilde/Braikia attacked, and three teams went to the final three deciding sprints on the same lap. But the German Kappes showed his clear superiority, and won all sprints. So the German/Danish team won, as they had the day before in the 50 km-Madison. The Swiss pair Risi/Betschart attacked several times, and now had the chance to join the leading group.

With their second win Kappes/Madsen extended their lead, and are now one lap ahead of four pairs. The distance covered was 88.750 kms at an average of 53.251 kph. This was the third fastest 100-minutes-race in the races history. Last year Risi/Betschart won with a fantastic new track-record of 90.270 km.

Results:

Courtesy of Pascal Meisser

1. Andreas Kappes/Jimmy Madsen (Ger/Den)      179 pts

1 lap behind:
2. Silvio Martinello/Marco Villa (Ita)        151
3. Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart (Swi)            149
4. Matthew Gilmore/Scott McGrory (Bel/Aus)    145
5. Adriano Baffi/Andrea Collinelli (Ita)      120

2 laps behind:
6. Etienne de Wilde/Tayeb Braikia (Bel/Den)    90

7 laps behind:
7. Christian Weber/Jens Lehmann (Swi/Ger)     106

8 laps behind:
8. Eric Weisspfennig/Stefan Steinweg (Ger)     37

9 laps behind:
9. Peter Jörg/Lars Teutenberg (Swi/Ger)        51

10 laps behind:
10. Frank Corvers/Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)        30

11 laps behind:
11. Mario Vonhof/Gerd Dörich (Ger)             67

12 laps behind:
12. Rob Hayles/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr)           53
13. Patrick Vetsch/Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)   39
14. Juan Llaneras/Isaac Galvez (Esp)           23

18 laps behind:
15. Guido Fulst/Torsten Rund (Ger)             39

31 laps behind:
16. Markus Kammermann/Marcel Dunkel (Swi)      20 

Amateurs (Sixjours de l'Avenir):

In the amateur 45 km race, Germans Karsten Wörner and Sven Epple had a very strong finish and were ahead alone with 40 laps to go. They lost the final sprint, but clearly won the stage and are now only one point behind the leading Slovakians Zabka/Liska.

1. Martin Liska/Josef Zabka (Svk)                  46 pts
2. Karsten Wörner/Sven Epple (Ger)                 45
3. Luc de Duytsche/Nicky Vermeersch (Bel)          40
4. Andre Kalfack/Marco Appler (Ger)                33
5. Patrick Fäh/Marcel Pfister (Swi)                24
6. Gregor Gut/Beat Obrist (Swi)                     9
7. Patrick Banfi/Reto Lauper (Swi)                  1
8. Simon Ganz/Adrian Osterwalder (Swi)              0

1 lap behind
9. Ralph Zimmermann/Martial Heer (Swi)              0
10. Pascal Manser/Stefan Mittelhammer (Swi/Ger)     0

In the motorpaced race, after the win of Hanskurt Brand on the first evening, Carsten Podlesch won on Tuesday and Christoph Göhring on the Wednesday matinée, while Sabino Cannone won the fourth stage just after midnight on Wednesday. Cannone took over the overall classification.

1. Sabino Cannone (Ita)/Durst         11 pts
2. Carsten Podlesch (Ger)/Walrave     14
3. Hanskurt Brand (Swi)/Aebi          14
4. Felice Puttini (Swi)/Puttini       16
5. Lubomir Mazel (Cze)/Baur           18
6. Christoph Göhring (Swi)/Steiger    21
7. Roland Rol (Ned)/Buchmann          23
8. Ralf Keller (Ger)/De Bakker        27

The second race of the Swiss road champions behind the Derny motors was won by Alex Zülle, ahead of Markus Zberg and Beat Zberg. For the 20 km they averaged 56.074 km/h. Markus Zberg is still the leader.

1. Alex Zülle           3 pts
2. Markus Zberg         3
3. Pascal Richard      10
4. Beat Zberg          11
5. Oscar Camenzind     11
6. Rolf Järmann        13
7. Niki Aebersold      13
8. Armin Meier         13
9. Roland Meier        13

In the second night of the sprinters competition, Jens Fiedler won the 250 m-TT in 13.32 sec., ahead of Peden and Kiksis. Fiedler and Van Eijden won the two sprints, and Fiedler and Peden won the two Keirin-races. "Weapon" Peden is the new overall sprint leader.

1. Anthony Peden (NZ)        3 pts
2. Ainars Kiksis (Lat)       5
3. Jens Fiedler (Ger)        5
4. Claudio Treig (Swi)       7
5. Patrick Merk (Swi)       11
6. Jan van Eiden (Ger)      11
7. Barry Forde (Barbados)   14