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66th Zesdaagse Van Vlaanderen-Gent - 6D
Belgium, November 21-26, 2006
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Day 3 - November 23
Keisse and Bartko regain the lead
By Laura Weislo in Gent
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On night three of the Gent six-day, the favorites put their cards on the table early in the night, and during the first Madison of the evening, Iljo Keisse and Robert Bartko set down a series of attacks that leaders Danny Stam and Peter Schep could not keep up with. They succeeded in taking back the lap they lost yesterday, and added another bonus lap on points gained. Meanwhile, consistent performances and a win in the second Madison of the evening moved Bruno Risi and Leif Lampater into second place ahead of Stam and Schep.
How it unfolded
Dimitri DeFauw and Wouter Van Mechelen took the opening event, the points race, while Isaac Galvez and Juan Llaneras showed a bit of speed by taking the team elimination. DeFauw and Van Mechelen had their third attempt at breaking the track record in the flying lap, but were still nearly a tenth of a second off the track record of 8.63 set in 2002 by Jean-Pierre Van Zyl. On night one, they came within 0.02 seconds of the mark.
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In the first Madison of the night, Keisse began by countering an attack by Franco Marvulli, bringing Stam and Schep along for the lap, but not ten laps later, Risi, Galvez and Villa attacked and an attentive Bartko caught Schep off-guard and went across with Beikirch. This put the hometown team on the same overall lap as Stam and Schep. Keisse tried again to get away, but a furious chase by Risi/Lampater and Galvez/Llaneras brought them up to the Belgian's wheel.
Muller/Grassman scrabbled hard to get up to the breakaway, while DeFauw/Van Mechelen fell off the chase and went back to the field. Just as the break took their lap, a fatigued DeFauw tangled with Slovakian rider Jozef Zabka, and the pair took a nasty tumble down the banking. Both riders were able to walk away, and were back in the race. After the crash, racing resumed and once again Risi, Galvez, and Keisse were on the attack, and a tiring field could not bring them back before the final ten laps. In the final sprint, Risi led out, and a surging Franco Marvulli looked certain to take the sprint when Iljo Keisse came flying over the top out of the last turn, snatching the win and the lead in the overall.
The rest of the night's events did not affect the overall standings, but gave the lower placed teams a chance for glory. DeFauw and Van Mechelen again dominated the timed events, taking the 500m time trial over Keisse and Bartko. Muller and Grassman prevailed in the scratch race, and Van Mechelen took out the derny final.
Under-25 heats
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In the first heat of the under-25's, the Germans once again dominated the race. The team of Arends and Mohs are clearly the heat 1 favorites, but the other teams are still racing aggressively. Tonight, Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) was the first to attack, and Leys (Bel) and Ranneries (Den) were quick to follow. But the German team cannibalized their move, catching and passing the trio, shattering the field on their way to gaining another lap. Burke and Bellis (GBr) and the Baumgartner brothers were the only ones to hold off getting lapped, but this would not last. As soon as Arends and Mohs caught the broken field, they went off the front straight away and stole a second lap. By the end, the Germans took another lap out of most of the field, with only the British duo holding them off and continuing to hold the sprint leaders jersey.
The second heat played out much in the same manner, with the German team of Kalz and Kluge once again in control. The real battle was going on for the sprint leaders jersey, with the Dutch pair of Lighthart and Vermeulen going head-to-head against the Czech duo Subrt and Mixa. The Czech pair were able to best the Dutch, and take the sprint lead by just one point. Friday's race will be a battle for the teams in the lower places, as only the top six teams in each heat will advance to the finals.
Photography
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- Llaneras and Galvez in the team elimination
- De Fauw and Van Mechelen were victorious in the flying lap
- Andreas Beikirch has plenty of interesting facial expressions. This is one of them.
- Bruno Risi looks a little tired on night three
- Franco Marvulli won't be happy with this photo
- Depoortere in the 200m TT
- Isaac Galvez feels the G forces
- There's a reason he's known as Mr. Peepers in the peloton
- Keisse and Schep
- Lampater digs deep
- Beikirch keeps an eye on Jozef Zabka
- Matthe Pronk at full speed
- Peter Schep in the flying lap
- The crowd on Thursday is a party crowd
- Steve Schets working really hard to get away.
Images by Emory Ball/Cyclingnews.com
- DeFauw with his bouquet
- DeFauw and Van Mechelen go for the hand off
- DeFauw and Zabka hit the deck
- Falling down a 54 degree bank does not feel very good
- Bartko gets a push from Keisse
- Ken Ilegems glues a tire
- Typical six-day activities
- Smoking is confined to areas outside the track after anti-doping controls discovered nicotine traces in all the riders' urine two years ago.
- The view from the stands
- The infield is packed!
- Best to keep your hands inside the rails
- The flag of Flanders was popular
- More madison action
- The bunch on the back straightaway
- Stam and Schep change up
- Galvez gives Llaneras all of his momentum
- Fans concentrate on partying while the riders zip by behind.
- Beikirch and Frey
- Liska and Zabka
- Beikirch and another funny facial expression
- Marvulli relieves Aeschbach
- Villa
- Deneef and Pronk go for the sprint
- Bartko in the derny race
- Beni Baumgartner (Swi) awaits the start of U25 heat 1
- Kalz and Kluge (Ger) in the U25 heat two
- Simes leads the chase in the first U25 heat.
- If you hold your face just right you'll go faster.
- The British coach gives advice to the riders
- The winner's bouquet bartered for a photograph
- Keisse looking intently at the action
- Keisse was not happy with his team's elimination
- The crowd is mainly interested in partying and only somewhat on the racing
Results
Points race 1 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 10 pts 2 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 9 3 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 9 4 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 9 5 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 8 6 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 5 7 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 5 8 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 4 9 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 2 10 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 2 11 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 2 12 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 1 13 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) Team elimination 1 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 15 pts 2 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 10 3 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 8 4 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 6 5 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 4 6 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 2 7 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 8 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 9 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 10 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 11 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 12 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 13 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) Flying lap 1 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 0.08.73 2 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 0.08.84 3 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 0.08.85 4 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 0.09.07 5 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 0.09.09 6 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 0.09.13 7 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 0.09.21 8 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 0.09.27 9 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 0.09.33 10 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 11 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 0.09.34 12 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 0.09.39 13 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 0.09.50 Madison 40 minutes + 10 laps 1 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 2 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) One lap down 3 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 4 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 5 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 6 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) Three laps down 7 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 8 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 9 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) Four laps down 10 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) Five laps down 11 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 12 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Six laps down 13 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) Derny heat 1
1 De Ketele (Vaarten) 5 pts 2 De Fauw (Zijlaard) 4 3 Beikirch (Durst) 3 4 Pronk (Van Uytfange) 2 5 Villa (Walrave) 1 6 Deneef (Huybrechts)
Elimination 1 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 15 pts 2 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 10 3 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 8 4 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 6 5 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 4 6 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 2 7 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 8 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 9 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 10 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 11 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 12 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 13 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) Derny heat 2 1 Iljo Keisse (Vaarten) 2 Bruno Risi (Zijlaard) 15 pts 3 Danny Stam (Walrave) 10 4 Isaac Galvez (Huybrechts) 8 5 Franco Marvulli (Van Uytfange) 6 6 Andreas Muller (Durst) 4 500m TT 1 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 0.27.76 2 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 0.28.01 3 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 0.28.16 4 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 0.29.09 5 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 0.29.16 6 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 0.29.22 7 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 0.29.85 8 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 0.30.08 9 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 0.30.13 10 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 0.30.24 11 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 0.30.27 12 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 0.30.48 13 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 0.31.02 Madison 2 (40 minutes + 10 laps) 1 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 15 pts 2 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 10 3 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 8 4 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 6 5 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 4 One lap down 6 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 2 pts 7 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 8 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) Three laps down 9 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 10 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 11 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 12 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 13 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) Supersprint 1 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 15 pts 2 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 10 3 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 8 4 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 6 5 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 4 6 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 2 7 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 8 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 9 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 10 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 11 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 12 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 13 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) Scratch
1 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 15 pts 2 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 10 3 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 8 4 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 6 5 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 4 6 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 2 7 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 8 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 9 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 10 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 11 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 12 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 13 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel)
Derny heat 3
1 Peter Schep (Walrave) 2 Robert Bartko (Vaarten) 15 pts 3 Juan Llaneras (Zijlaard) 10 4 Leif Lampater (Durst) 8 5 Christian Grassman (Huybrechts) 6 6 Alexander Aeschbach (Van Uytfange) 4 Keirin
1 Steven Deneef 2 Matthe Pronk 3 Martin Liska 4 Marco Villa 5 Andreas Beikirch 6 Andreas Muller Derny final
1 Wouter Van Mechelen (Zijlaard) 5 pts 2 Marc Hester (Durst) 4 3 Steve Schets (Vaarten) 3 4 Ingmar Depoortere (Walrave) 2 5 Aart Vierhouten (Van Uytfange) 1 6 Sebastian Frey (Huybrechts) Standings
1 Iljo Keisse/ Rober Bartko (Bel/Ger) 210 pts One lap down 2 Bruno Risi/ Leif Lampater (Swi/Ger) 159 pts 3 Danny Stam/ Peter Schep (Ned) 149 Two laps down 4 Isaac Galvez/Juan Llaneras (Spa) 84 pts Three laps down 5 Franco Marvulli/ Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 166 pts Six laps down 6 Andreas Muller/ Christian Grasmann (Ger) 78 pts Nine laps down 7 Andreas Beikirch/ Sebastian Frey (Ger) 67 pts 8 Marco Villa/ Marc Hester (Ita/Den) 54 17 laps down 9 Dimitri De Fauw/ Wouter van Mechelen (Bel) 188 pts 10 Steven DeNeef/ Ingmar Depoortere (Bel) 60 18 laps down 11 Kenny de Ketele/ Steve Schets (Bel) 141 pts 21 laps down 12 Matthe Pronk/ Aart Vierhouten (Ned) 51 pts 22 laps down 13 Martin Liska/ Jozef Zabka (Slo) 33 pts U25 Heat 1 1 Michael Arends/ Erik Mohs (Ger) 5 pts Two laps down 2 Steven Burke/ John Bellis (GBr) 15 pts Three laps down 3 Jesper Morkov/ Christian Ranneries (Den) Four laps down 4 Dave Mertens/ Leys Birger (Bel) 11 pts 5 Beni Baumgartner/ Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) 7 6 Niels Peters/ Denis Kreder (Ned) 6 7 Jackie Simes/ Taylor Brown (USA) 8 Rene Schibli/ Patrick Betz (Swi/Ger) Standings for Heat 1 1 Michael Arends/ Erik Mohs (Ger) 26 pts Five laps down 2 Steven Burke/ John Bellis (GBr) 33 pts Six laps down 3 Jesper Morkov/ Christian Ranneries (Den) Eight laps down 4 Niels Peters/ Denis Kreder (Ned) 17 pts 5 Beni Baumgartner/ Tobias Baumgartner (Swi) 14 6 Rene Schibli/ Patrick Betz (Swi/Ger) 2 Nine laps down 7 Dave Mertens/ Leys Birger (Bel) 16 pts 8 Jackie Simes/ Taylor Brown (USA) 2 Heat 2 1 Marcel Katz/ Roger Kluge (Ger) 5 pts Two laps down 2 Pavel Subrt/ Marek Mixa (Cze) 13 pts 3 Pim Lighthart/ Jeff Vermeulen (Ned) 8 4 Maxime Bally/ Bruno Menzi (Swi) 8 5 Emilien Clere/ Michael Jeanin (Fra) 3 6 Kevin Suhr/ Ryan Luttrell (USA) 3 7 Anzizar Lizarraga/ Blazquez Berasarte (Esp) 2 Four laps down 8 Matthias Venderhauwaert/ Jurgen Beeckman (Bel) Five laps down 9 Thomas Murray/ Peter Williams (GBr) 2 pts Standings 1 Marcel Katz/ Roger Kluge (Ger) 16 pts Four laps down 2 Pavel Subrt/ Marek Mixa (Cze) 28 pts Five laps down 3 Pim Lighthart/ Jeff Vermeulen (Ned) 27 pts 4 Maxime Bally/ Bruno Menzi (Swi) 16 5 Emilien Clere/ Michael Jeanin (Fra) 7 6 Anzizar Lizarraga/ Blazquez Berasarte (Esp) 7 7 Kevin Suhr/ Ryan Luttrell (USA) 3 Eight laps down 8 Thomas Murray/ Peter Williams (GBr) 6 pts 9 Matthias Venderhauwaert/ Jurgen Beeckman (Bel)
