Six Days of Berlin

Germany, January 6 - 11, 2000

Night 4 - January 9, 2000

The Italian pair of Silvio Martinello and Marco Villa managed to stretch their lead a little over the rest of the field on night four of the Berlin Six, gaining a bonus lap when they passed 300 points. Big improvers were Baffi and Collinelli who now hold second position after they regained their lost lap. The losers were the Swiss pair of Risi and Betschart who were not able to add greatly to their points total, falling to fifth spot.

Results - professionals:

Standings after 4 nights: 

1 Silvio Martinello/Marco Villa (Ita)		310 pts

1 lap behind:
2 Adriano Baffi/Andrea Collinelli (Ita)		255 
3 Andreas Kappes/Olaf Pollack (Ger)		245 
4 Robert Bartko (Ger)/Scott Mcgrory (Aus)	219 
5 Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart (Swi)		159 

2 laps behind:
6 Etienne De Wilde/Matthew Gilmore (Bel)	173 

3 laps behind:
7 Stefan Steinweg/Erik Weispfennig (Ger)	130 
8 Guido Fulst/Thorsten Rund (Ger)		100 
9 Lars Teutenberg/Andreas Beikirch (Ger)	91 

4 laps behind:
10 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Jens Lehmann (Ger)	174 

5 laps behind:
11 Juan Llaneras/Isaac Galvez (Esp)		92 

6 laps behind:
12 Daniel Becke (Ger)/Frank Corvers (Bel)	128 

7 laps behind:
13 Gerd Dörich/Mario Vonhof (Ger)		99 

10 laps behind:
14 Robert Hayles/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr)		62 

13 laps behind:
15 Christian Weber (Swi)/Ronny Lauke (Ger)	82 
16 Frank Kowatschitsch/Ralf Liehner (Ger)	28 

16 laps behind:
17 André Kalfack (Ger)/Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)	17 

17 laps behind:
18 Robert Slippens/Danny Stam (Ned)		33

Amateurs:

The German pair of Müller/Wächter maintained their lead over Belgians Luc De Duytsche and Nicky Vermeersch in the "Six Jours de l'Avenir" tonight. Both stages of the competition were won this time by Germans Palicki and Riesenbeck, who moved up to 5th overall in the standings.

Standings after 4 nights: 

1 Andreas Müller/Bernhard Wächter (Ger)		138 pts
2 Luc De Duytsche/Nicky Vermeersch (Bel)	118.5 
3 Sebastian Siedler/Christian Bach (Ger)	85 
4 Christian Grasmann/Holger Burth (Ger)		84.5 
5 Daniel Palicki/Oliver Riesenbeck (Ger)	82.5 
6 Sven Steiner/Mario Zeckra (Ger)		77.5 
7 Michael Wanka/Marco Appler (Ger)		77 
8 Martin Liska (Svk)/Förster (Ger)		63

Results courtesy of Union Internationale des Velodromes