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41st Six Days of Munich - 6D
Germany, November 11-16, 2004
Day 1 - November 11
Two teams tied on night 1
By Birke Ulrich in Munich
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At the end of the first night of the 41st Six Days of Munich, two teams are tied at the top of the leaderboard with 50 points each: Dutch pair Robert Slippens/Danny Stam and Aussie/Belgian combo Scott McGrory/Matthew Gilmore. The latter team will start in the yellow jersey tomorrow as they won more points in the last race. In third place is the Swiss pair Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart, on the same lap as the leading two teams but with slightly fewer points.
Fiedler says goodbye
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It's not hard to pick Germany's most famous track sprinter, Jens Fiedler, out from the crowd. In his last winter season before retiring, Fiedler has a "good bye" stenciled on the backside of his white shorts. He has already won the Sprint Grand Prix in Munich nine times and is the current holder of the lap record here, at 10.30 seconds.
There are five more world class sprinters joining Fiedler, including his German Olympic teammates René Wolff and Stefan Nimke, with whom he won the team sprint in Athens. Strong competitors are Arnaud Tournant from France, Chris Hoy from Great Britain and Barry Forde from Barbados, who have also a great medal collection.
There's a new sprint race in Munich - one with a "handicap". The rider who is leading the rankings must start 30 meters behind the sprinter who is on rank 6.
Overall, the atmosphere was quite relaxed in Munich's Olympiahalle. There are lots of little shops with cycling gear for sale (50% off), information, food and beer. The audience in the infield seemed to be quite hungry and sometimes more interested in their food than in the races.
Photography
Images by Birke Ulrich/www.alakarte.de
- Visitors in their 'recreation area'. The eating zone offers dishes of different cultures, with the Bavarian part represented strongly here.
- A very empty stadium is waiting for some action one hour before the start.
- Erik Weispfennig before the start hangs out in Ignatyev and Markov's recreation room.
- A cyclist waiting for the start with his foot on the ground .
- Only a few more seconds... The riders are ready to go.
- The full part of the Olympiahalle the stadium of the Munich Six Days.
- Riders passing by
- Spectators watching disinterestedly
- Team 'Haberl Gastronomie' (Gerd Dörich and Frank Kowatschitsch) prepare to change
- Team 'Haberl Gastronomie' (Gerd Dörich and Frank Kowatschitsch) racing hand in hand
- Team 1 (Risi/Betschart) in front of team 9 (Stocher/Grasmann) and team 2 (Slippens/Stam)
- Scott McGrory (L) and Matthew Gilmore
- Scott McGrory (L) and Matthew Gilmore
- Scott McGrory fighting
- Sprinter Barry Forde (Barbados) racing
- Barry Forde (Barbados) won the first sprint competition
- The derny race
- Bruno Risi in the Derny race
- The derny race
- Spectators enjoying their dinner instead of watching the race.
- Party time between the races. The official 6-days band 'Cagey Strings' in the background.
- A hard fought finish between Team 2, Team 5 (Gilmore) and Team 6 with Marco Villa (Ita).
- Teams racing in a line.
- Preparing to start.
- Alexei Markov held before the start
- Iljo Keisse (Bel) gets ready to start
- Spare wheels
- Kappes and Beikirch in the Derny Race
- There are still some seats available
- A spectator waiting for the start of a sprint race. Forde is in the background
- Jens Fiedler says a tender goodbye
- Fiedler just after winning a sprint
- Fiedler just after winning a sprint
- Tables in the infield
- Waiting before the start. Second from left is Matthew Gilmore (Bel), next to him is Bruno Risi (Swi)
- Racing in Munich
- Robert Bartko (Ger) and Franco Marvulli (Swi)
- The start shot
- Party time between the races. The official 6-days band'Cagey Strings'in the background .
- A sprinting Barry Forde (Barbados)
- A resting Robert Bartko (Ger)
- Party time between the races. A member of the official 6-days band 'Cagey Strings'
- Party time between the races. A dancer from the band.
- Resting bicycles with racing riders in the background.
- Jens Fiedler during a break.
- Waiting for the start
- Stuff
- Arnaud Tournant (Fra) preparing for his race
- Barry Forde (Barbados) before the race
- Sprinter Jens Fiedler (Ger) before the start
- Sprinter Rene Wolff (Ger) before the start
- Sprinter Chris Hoy (Gbr) before the start
- The Generali Team changes riders: Scott McGrory (Aus) is holding the hand of his Belgian teammate Matthew Gilmore.
- Team Stadler changing over.
Results
Standings after night 1 1 Robert Slippens/Danny Stam (Ned) 50 pts 2 Scott McGrory/Matthew Gilmore (Aus/Bel) 50 3 Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart (Swi) 39 4 Andreas Kappes/Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 33 1 lap behind 5 Lars Teutenberg/Christian Lademann (Ger) 23 2 laps behind 6 Robert Bartko/Franco Marvulli (Ger/Swi) 23 3 laps behind 7 Marco Villa/Thorsten Rund (Ita/Ger) 18 8 Luke Roberts/Jimmi Madsen (Aus/Den) 18 4 laps behind 9 Franz Stocher/Christian Grasmann (Aut/Ger) 7 5 laps behind 10 Leif Lampater/Alexander Aeschbach (Ger/Swi) 14 11 Sebastian Löffler/Andreas Müller (Ger) 10 12 Gerd Dörich/Frank Kowatschitsch (Ger) 6 6 laps behind 13 Wouter van Mechelen/Iljo Keisse (Bel) 20 14 Mikhail Ignatiev/Alexei Markov (Rus) 6 15 Ronny Lauke/Eric Weißpfennig (Ger)
Franziskaner Rad Open (U23)
Standings after night 1 1 Kenny De Ketele/Steve Schets (Bel) 20 pts 2 Marc Hester/Michael Mřrkřv (Den) 18 3 Michael Berling/Axel Rasmussen (Den) 16 4 Gert-Jan Jonkmann/Wim Stroetinga (Ned) 14 5 Henning Bommel/Robert Bengsch (Ger) 12 6 Pavel Subrt/Marek Mixa (Cze) 10 7 Sebastian Frey/Nicolai Raasch (Ger) 8 8 Patrick Betz/Daniel Schlegel (Ger) 6 9 René Schibl/Benjamin Baumgartner (Swi) 4 10 Jan Eric Schwarzer/Markus Reich (Ger) 2 11 Cédric Ager/Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) 1 12 Karl Christian König/Robert Kriegs (Ger) 1 13 Christoph Meschenmoser/David Heine (Ger) 1 14 Georg Tazreiter (Aut)/Lubor Kosicka (Cze) 1 15 Kevin Sluimer/Patrick Kos (Ned) 1
