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Night 5 - January 10, 2000

The second last evening of the "Six Days of Berlin" saw a huge crowd watch an exciting battle at the top of the leaderboard. Belgians Gilmore and DeWilde got off to a flying start by winning the first chase, but the real action happened in the next hunt, the "Grosse Schultheiss Jagd".

Bartko and McGrory took a lap early on, however Kappes and Pollack stole one late in the race to put them in the lead. In the closing minutes, Martinello attacked the field to gain back the lap, putting him up in front also with partner Marco Villa. In the end, it was the German Pollack who won the sprint from Martinello, gaining them enough points to threaten the overall lead of the Italians, with one night to go.

Results - professionals:

Standings after night 5:

1 Silvio Martinello/Marco Villa (Ita)		364 
2 Andreas Kappes/Olaf Pollack (Ger)		310

1 Lap Behind:
3 Adriano Baffi/Andrea Collinelli (Ita)		292 
4 Robert Bartko (Ger)/Scott Mcgrory (Aus)	289 
5 Etienne Dewilde/Matthew Gilmore (Bel)		202 
6 Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart (Swi)		185 

3 Laps Behind:
7 Lars Teutenberg/Andreas Beikirch (Ger)	108

4 Laps Behind:
8 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Jens Lehmann (Ger)		203 
9 Stefan Steinweg/Erik Weispfennig (Ger)	189 
10 Guido Fulst/Thorsten Rund (Ger)		121 

5 Laps Behind:
11 Juan Llaneras/Isaac Galvez (Esp)		105 

7 Laps Behind:
12 Daniel Becke (Ger)/Frank Corvers (Bel)	154 
13 Gerd Dörich/Mario Vonhof (Ger)		114 

12 Laps Behind:
14 Robert Hayles/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr)		67 

14 Laps Behind:
15 Christian Weber (Swi)/Ronny Lauke (Ger)	102

15 Laps Behind:
16 Frank Kowatschitsch/Ralf Liehner (Ger)	40 

19 Laps Behind:
17 Robert Slippens/Danny Stam (Ned)		35 
18 André Kalfack (Ger)/Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)	19

Sprinters:

German sprinter Jens Fiedler demonstrated his form yet again by improving on his lap record to 13.25 seconds for 250 m (67.92 km/h). He also managed with win the sprint competition from Eyk Pokorny and Anthony Peden. However, Peden made amends in the keirin by winning from Pokorny and Fiedler.

Standings after night 5:

1 Jens Fiedler (Ger)		41 Pts
2 Eyk Pokorny (Ger)		40 
3 Anthony Peden (Nzl)		35 
4 Ainars Kiksis (Lat)		30 
5 Jan Van Eijden (Ger)		28 
6 Patrik Merk (Swi)		14

Stayers:

Swiss rider, Hanskurt Brand won the 5th evening of the stayers competition in front of German Carsten Podlesch, however the latter still maintains a handy lead coming into the last night.

Standings after night 5:

1 Carsten Podlesch (Ger-Bruno Walrave)		7 Pts
2 Hanskurt Brand (Sui-René Aebi)		10 
3 Stefan Klare (Ger-Christian Dippel)		15 
4 Ralf Keller (Ger-Manfred Schmadtke)		20 
5 Ronald Rol (Ned-Jozef De Bakker)		26 
6 Lubomir Mazel (Cze-Helmut Baur)		28
7 Sabino Cannone (Ita-Dieter Durst)		34

Amateurs:

Germans Müller and Wächter finished first and third in the two stages of the "Six Jours de'l Avenir", giving them a very comfortable lead over Belgians De Duytsche and Vermeersch.

Standings after night 5:

1 Andreas Müller/Bernhard Wächter (Ger)		173 Pts
2 Luc De Duytsche/Nicky Vermeersch (Bel)	150.5 
3 Sebastian Siedler/Christian Bach (Ger)	109 
4 Sven Steiner/Mario Zeckra (Ger)		103.5 
5 Daniel Palicki/Oliver Riesenbeck (Ger)	102.5 
6 Michael Wanka/Marco Appler (Ger)		95 
7 Christian Grasmann/Holger Burth (Ger)		90.5 
8 Martin Liska (Svk)/Förster (Ger)		80

Results courtesy of Union Internationale des Velodromes