48th Six Days of Zürich - 6D

Zürich, Switzerland, November 27-December 2, 2000

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Day 1 - November 27

No surprises with Risi/Betschart on top

When the racing finally finished in the early hours of the morning in the Zürcher Hallenstadion, there were six teams in the lead on the same lap. After winning the first madison of the evening, Swiss pair Bruno Risi and Kurt Betschart (who are together with Markus Zberg as their road man), found themselves at the top of the standings with 65 points. They lead the formidable combination of Scott McGrory and Matthew Gilmore, the latter being 'fresh' from his win in Gent. If you call driving for five hours to get to Switerland a good way to freshen up...

World Champions Erik Weisspfennig/Stephan Steinweg are next, equal with Juan Llaneras/Adriano Baffi, with Madsen/Braikia and Martinello/Villa the other two teams on the same lap.

In the stayers competition, the leader after the first stage is Swiss Felice Puttini who averaged just under 64 km/h for the 20 km behind his pacer, Robert Puttini. Notable finishers down the rankings were Hanskurt Brand (5th) and Carsten Podlesch (6th) who clearly weren't at their best tonight.

Finally, in the amateur competition, Six Jours de l'Avenir, another Swiss pair leads: Patrick Fäh and Patrick Kraus. They won the first stage, a 30 kilometre madison in front of Ryan Miller (USA)/Sven Epple (Ger) and French couple Benoît Genauzeau/Julien Tejada.

Results

Professionals

Standings after night 1:

1 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi)/Markus Zberg (Swi)		65 pts
2 Scott McGrory (Aus)/Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Oscar Camenzind (Swi)	59 
3 Erik Weisspfennig (Ger)/Stephan Steinweg (Ger)/Beat Wabel (Swi)		44 
4 Juan Llaneras (Spa)/Adriano Baffi (Ita)/Pascal Richard (Swi)		44 
5 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Tayeb Braikia (Den)/Beat Zberg (Swi)		31 
6 Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita)/Eugeni Berzin (RUS)		26 

1 lap behind: 

7 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)/Frank Corvers (Bel)/Massimo Strazzer (Ita)	40 
8 Etienne Dewilde (Bel)/Brett Aitken (Aus)/Niki Aebersold (Swi)		11 
9 Danny Stam (Ned)/Robert Slippens (Ned)/Thomas Frischknecht (Swi)	11 
10 Mario Vonhof (Ger)/Gerd Dörich (Ger)/Rolf Huser (Swi)	 	 5 

2 laps behind: 

11 Christian Weber (Swi)/Jens Lehmann (Ger)/Marcel Strauss (Swi)	32 
12 Lars Teutenberg (Ger)/Andreas Beikirch (Ger)/Lukas Zumsteg (Swi)	21 
13 Peter Jörg (Swi)/Frank Kowatschitsch (Ger)/Sven Montgomery (Swi)	19 

3 laps behind: 

14 Guido Fulst (Ger)/Christian Sidler (Swi)/Philipp Buschor (Swi)	 5 
15 Markus Kammermann (Swi)/Lorenzo Lapage (Bel)/Roli Meier (Swi)	 3 

4 laps behind: 

16 David Hubschwerlin (Fra)/Robert Sassone (Fra)/Mariano Piccoli (Ita)	1

Stage 1 (20 km)

1 Felice Puttini (Swi) behind Roberto Puttini (Swi)	18.48 (63.830 km/h)
2 Lubomir Mazel (Cze) behind Helmuth Baur (Ger)
3 Christoph Göhring (Swi) behind Peter Steiger (Swi)
4 Sabino Cannone (Ita) behind Dieter Durst (Ger)
5 Hanskurt Brand (Swi) behind René Aebi (Swi)
6 Carsten Podlesch (Ger) behind Bruno Walrave (Ned)
7 Roland Rol (Ned) behind Jos de Bakker (Bel)
8 Ralf Keller (Ger) behind Robert Buchmann (Swi)

Madison (30 km)

1 Patrick Fäh/Patrick Kraus (Swi)		17 pts
2 Ryan Miller (USA)/Sven Epple (Ger)		12 
3 Benoît Genauzeau/Julien Tejada (Fra)		 7 

1 lap behind: 

4 Jürg Bannwart/Markus Blessing (Swi)		 9 
5 Michael and Karsten Wömer (Ger)		 5 
6 Ralph Zimmermann (Swi)/Glenn Renndall (Can)	 5