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41st Six Days of Munich - 6D

Germany, November 11-16, 2004

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Day 1 - November 11

Two teams tied on night 1

By Birke Ulrich in Munich

The Generali Team
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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

Jens Fiedler
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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

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