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62nd Zesdaagse Van Vlaanderen-Gent - 6D
Gent, Belgium, November 19-24, 2002
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Day 6 - November 24
Risi/Betschart by 3 points
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The last night of the Six Days of Ghent came down to a thrilling finale, with just 3 points separating the top two teams in the end. Try as they did, Matthew Gilmore and Bradley Wiggins could not close the gap to Swiss duo Bruno Risi/Kurt Betschart, who finished with 387 points to Gilmore/Wiggins' 384. A lap down, with an impressive total of 431 points, were Jimmi Madsen/Marty Nothstein, who combined well in Ghent to give the more favoured teams a run for their money. Had they not lost a lap several nights ago, they would have comfortably won the Ghent Six.
Risi/Betschart started off well, winning the Classement Sprints and Team Elimination races. However Gilmore/Wiggins were not giving up easily, and proceeded to win the 500m time trial, the first round of the Derny (Gilmore), and the Elimination (Wiggins). However it wasn't quite enough, and Risi/Betschart clung onto their lead at the end of the night.
In the Junior 3 Days, Dutch rider Wim Stroetinga was the winner in front of Belgians Kenny De Ketele and Angelo Ververken.
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Images by Nick Rosenthal/www.fatnick.com
- The podium in all its colour
- Bruno Risi and Kurt Betschart (Swi)
Results
1 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi) 387 pts 2 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr) 384 1 lap behind 3 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Marty Nothstein (USA) 431 4 Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita) 250 2 laps behind 5 Robert Slippens (Ned)/Danny Stam (Ned) 297 6 Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 217 9 laps behind 7 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)/Franco Marvulli (Swi) 252 10 laps behind 8 Steven De Neef (Bel)/Gerd Dörich (Ger) 101 15 laps behind 9 Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)/Adriano Baffi (Ita) 122 27 laps behind 10 Jimmy Hansen (Den)/Matthé Pronk (Ned) 116 29 laps behind 11 Martin Liska (Svk)/Jozef Zabka (Svk) 71 39 laps behind 12 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)/Franz Stocher (Aut) 136 40 laps behind 13 Iljo Keisse (Bel)/Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 229 Classement sprints 1 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi) 15 pts 2 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Marty Nothstein (USA) 13 3 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr) 9 4 Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita) 7 5 Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 7 6 Robert Slippens (Ned)/Danny Stam (Ned) 6 7 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)/Franco Marvulli (Swi) 3 8 Steven De Neef (Bel)/Gerd Dörich (Ger) 2 9 Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)/Adriano Baffi (Ita) 2 10 Jimmy Hansen (Den)/Matthé Pronk (Ned) 1 11 Martin Liska (Svk)/Jozef Zabka (Svk) 1 12 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)/Franz Stocher (Aut) 0 13 Iljo Keisse (Bel)/Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 0 Team Elimination 1 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi) 2 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr) 3 Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 4 Robert Slippens (Ned)/Danny Stam (Ned) 5 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Marty Nothstein (USA) 6 Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita) 7 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)/Franco Marvulli (Swi) 8 Martin Liska (Svk)/Jozef Zabka (Svk) 9 Jimmy Hansen (Den)/Matthé Pronk (Ned) 10 Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)/Adriano Baffi (Ita) 11 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)/Franz Stocher (Aut) 12 Steven De Neef (Bel)/Gerd Dörich (Ger) 13 Iljo Keisse (Bel)/Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 500m Time Trial 1 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr) 28.31 2 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Marty Nothstein (USA) 28.51 3 Iljo Keisse (Bel)/Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 28.84 4 Robert Slippens (Ned)/Danny Stam (Ned) 29.04 5 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)/Franco Marvulli (Swi) 29.11 6 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi) 29.11 7 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)/Franz Stocher (Aut) 29.14 8 Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 29.44 9 Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita) 29.64 10 Martin Liska (Svk)/Jozef Zabka (Svk) 29.83 11 Jimmy Hansen (Den)/Matthé Pronk (Ned) 30.31 12 Steven De Neef (Bel)/Gerd Dörich (Ger) 30.55 13 Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)/Adriano Baffi (Ita) 30.79 Derny - Round 1 1 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Joop Zijlaard 2 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Dieter Durst 10 m 3 Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)/Jos De Bakker 40 m 4 Danny Stam (Ned)/Bruno Walrave 55 m 5 Franco Marvulli (Swi)/Raymond Persijn 60 m 6 Jozef Zabka (Svk)/De Raet 65 m Elimination 1 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) 2 Kurt Betschart (Swi) 3 Jimmy Hansen (Den) 4 Jean-Pierre Van Zijl (RSA) 5 Gerd Dörich (Ger) 6 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi) 7 Robert Slippens (Ned) 8 Wouter Mechelen Van (Bel) 9 Martin Liska (Svk) 10 Adriano Baffi (Ita) 11 Marty Nothstein (USA) 12 Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 13 Silvio Martinello (Ita) Derny - Round 2 1 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Bruno Walrave 2 Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Dieter Durst 1 m 3 Steven De Neef (Bel)/Joop Zijlaard 2 m 4 Marco Villa (Ita)/Jos De Bakker 30 m 5 Matthé Pronk (Ned)/De Raet 35 m 6 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)/Raymond Persijn 40 m Flying Lap (166m) 1 Iljo Keisse (Bel)/Jean-Pierre Van Zyl (RSA) 8.76 2 Robert Slippens (Ned)/Danny Stam (Ned) 8.79 3 Jimmi Madsen (Den)/Marty Nothstein (USA) 8.95 4 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)/Bradley Wiggins (Gbr) 8.96 5 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)/Franz Stocher (Aut) 9.11 6 Bruno Risi (Swi)/Kurt Betschart (Swi) 9.11 7 Silvio Martinello (Ita)/Marco Villa (Ita) 9.16 8 Andreas Kappes (Ger)/Andreas Beikirch (Ger) 9.25 9 Martin Liska (Svk)/Jozef Zabka (Svk) 9.32 10 Alexander Aeschbach (Swi)/Franco Marvulli (Swi 9.41 11 Steven De Neef (Bel)/Gerd Dörich (Ger) 9.46 12 Laurenzo Lapage (Bel)/Adriano Baffi (Ita) 9.56 13 Jimmy Hansen (Den)/Matthé Pronk (Ned) 9.67 Supersprint 1 Robert Slippens (Ned) 2 Steven De Neef (Bel) 3 Franco Marvulli (Swi) 4 Matthe Pronk (Ned)
Junior 3 Days
Elimination A 1 Wim Stroetinga (Ned) 2 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) 3 Angelo Ververken (Bel) 4 Tim Mertens (Bel) 5 Dimitri De Ridder (Bel) 6 Olivier Verhiest (Bel) 7 Jason Cattermole (GBr) 8 Kurt Braeye (Bel) Elimination B 1 Davy Tuytens (Bel) 2 Tim Bottu (Bel) 3 Thomas Van Acker (Bel) 4 Rik Buelens (Bel) 5 Olivier Hameau (Bel) 6 Christophe Verhiest (Bel) 7 Matthias De Kunst (Bel) Points Race - 100 laps 1 Angelo Ververken (Bel) 40 pts 2 Tim Mertens (Bel) 29 3 Thomas Van Acker (Bel) 28 4 Tim Bottu (Bel) 20 5 Wim Stroetinga (Ned) 19 6 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) 19 7 Olivier Hameau (Bel) 13 8 Dimitri De Ridder (Bel) 11 9 Davy Tuytens (Bel) 7 10 Kurt Braeye (Bel) 5 11 Jason Cattermole (GBr) 5 12 Olivier Verhiest (Bel) 3 13 Christophe Verhiest (Bel) 1 14 Rik Buelens (Bel) 0 15 Matthias De Kunst (Bel) Final standings after night 3 1 Wim Stroetinga (Ned) 23 pts 2 Kenny De Ketele (Bel) 26 3 Angelo Ververken (Bel) 27 4 Davy Tuytens (Bel) 29 5 Tim Bottu (Bel) 32 6 Tim Mertens (Bel) 32 7 Thomas Van Acker (Bel) 41 8 Jason Cattermole (GBR) 61 9 Dimitri De Ridder (Bel) 69 10 Kurt Braeye (Bel) 74 11 Olivier Hameau (Bel) 74 12 Christophe Verhiest (Bel) 74 13 Olivier Verhiest (Bel) 82 14 Rik Buelens (Bel) 61 15 Matthias De Kunst (Bel) 84
