UIV-Ranking 2011/2012

Keisse No. 1

Iljo Keisse couldn’t participate in his "own" 6-Days in Ghent-Kuipke, but he has won the 6-Days in Amsterdam and Grenoble and the Sixday-Nights in Zurich and this brings him on top of the UIV-Ranking at the start of the new year. Also 2^nd place overall is occupied by a Belgian rider, Kenny de Ketele, while last year’s No. 1, Robert Bartko, at the moment is on 4^th place.

UIV-Ranking Top 10 as pr. 01.01.2012:
1 Iljo Keisse (BEL) 175 p.
2 Kenny de Ketele (BEL) 165 p.
3 Leif Lampater (GER) 155 p.
4 Robert Bartko (GER) 150 p.
5 Morgan Kneisky (FRA) 150 p.
6 Peter Schep (NED) 145 p.
7 Wim Stroetinga (NED) 145 p.
8 Franco Marvulli (SUI) 140 p.
9 Lois Perizzolo (SUI) 130 p.
10 Cyrille Thiery (SUI) 130 p.

Find full UIV-Ranking here

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Keisse – Kneisky winners in Grenoble

The 41^st 6-Days of Grenoble ended Tuesday evening with a victory for the Belgian-French combination Iljo Keisse – Morgan Kneisky. For Keisse it was his 15^th 6-Day win, while it was for Morgan Kneisky the very first. And he was the first French winner in Grenoble since Jean-Claudo Colotti (together with Dean Woods) back in 1994 (!). Kneisky is a top-class rider, proved a.o. by his World Championship in scratch 2009 in Poland.

Result of the 6-Days in Grenoble 27^th October to 1^st November 2011:
1 Iljo Keisse (BEL) – Morgan Kneisky (FRA), 314 p., at 1 lap: 2 Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI), 320 p., 3 Kenny de Ketele – Tim Mertens (BEL), 307 p., at 2 laps: 4 Marc Hester – Jesper Mørkøv (DEN), 211 p., 5 Luke Roberts (AUS) – Danny Stam (NED), 210 p., at 4 laps: 6 Martin Blaha – Martin Hacecky (CZE), 177 p., at 5 laps: 7 Sebastian Mora – Albert Torres (ESP), 225 p., at 11 laps: 8 Kevin Fouache – Jules Pijouriet (FRA), 128 p., at 12 laps: 9 Sebastian Ivars – Pierre-Luc Perichon (FRA), 75 p., 15 laps: 10 Francois Lamiraud – Florent Ivars (FRA), 58 p., at 19 laps: 11 Bastien Ruffinengo – Clément Carisey (FRA), 56 p.

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European Madison Championship 23^rd October 2011 in Apeldoorn
Keisse – De Ketele European Champions

(HE from Apeldoorn)
Arriving directly from the final of the 6-Days in Amsterdam Saturday evening the Belgian team Iljo Keisse – Kenny de Ketele came for victory in the European Madison Championship in Apeldoorn Sunday afternoon. Already in the morning they had to ride for the qualification, but that they managed without great problems. The final was another case and until the last 15 Minutes of the race it didn’t look so good for the Belgians. They had been one of the most aggressive teams in the race and they had scored the highest amount of points, but they were one lap behind the leading teams.

First team to gain a lap was the Austrians with Andreas Müller as a clever captain. Then came the Frenchmen and then the Swiss team and the team from Czech Republic. For them the door was open, but for the Belgians as well as for the Dutchmen, the door was closed. But in the very last part of the race Keisse attacked with full power, and the Belgians forced their way around for the decisive lap which game them the victory.

The European Madison Championship was organised by Libema in Apeldoorn (member of UIV) as a part of a 3-Days Championship-Event. On the final day had a crowd about 2.500 and the total of spectators during the three days were around 7.000, the organiser informed us.

Result of European Championship 50 Km Madison 2011
1 Iljo Keisse – Kenny de Ketele (BEL), 19 p., 2 Claudio Imhof – Cyrille Thiery (SUI), 12 p., 3 Morgan Kneisky – Vivien Brisse (FRA), 11 p., 4 Andreas Müller – Andreas Graf (AUT), 8 p., 5 Martin Blaha – Milan Kadlec (CZE), 5 p., at 1 lap: 6 David Muntaner – Albert Torres (ESP), 17 p., 7 Nick Stöpler – Wim Stroetinga (NED), 12 p., 8 Michael Mørkøv – Christian Ranneries (DEN), 9 p., 9 Silvan Dillier – Loïc Perizzolo (SUI), 6 p., 10 Omari Bertazzo – Angelo Ciccone (ITA), 2 p., 11 Sergey Lagkuti – Mykhaylo Radionov (UKR), 1 p., 12 Casper Folsach – Mathias Møller Nielsen (DEN), 0 p., 13 Peter Schep – Jens Mouris (NED), 0 p., 14 Julien Duval – Laurent Pichon (FRA), 0 p., at 2 laps: 15 Vojtech Hacecky – Marek Mixa (CZE), 8 p.
Time: 55 Min. 09,302 Sec. (54,392 Km/h).

 

 

Prolog "Sixday-Nights" in Zurich/Oerlikon 30^th August 2011
Marvulli – Marguet won Prolog in Zurich

 

Will Franco Marvulli and Tristan Marguet be the Swiss team for the coming 6-Days season? Who knows but in every case they performed well at the "Prolog Sixday-Nights" in Zurich last Tuesday 30^th of August on the open-air Oerlikon-track.

The organizers of the "Sixday-Nights" (30^th November to 3^rd December 2011) put on this event in order to launch their new concept and had a nice success with around 2.000 spectators on a nice summer-evening.

The format of the main-event was elimination, TT, pointsrace and of course madison. The overall winners were Marvulli – Marguet (winning elimination and TT), Kadlec – Kankovsky won the pointsrace and the Swiss-German combination Perizzolo – Barth won the madison. In the overall we note two new names in 2^nd place: Jan Keller and Stefan Küng.

Overall "Prolog Sixday-Nights", 30^th August 2011:
1 Franco Marvulli – Tristan Marguet (SUI), 7 p., 2 Jan Keller – Stefan Küng (SUI), 16 p., 3 Loïc Perizzoli (SUI) – Marcel Barth (GER), 17 p., 4 Andreas Müller (AUT) – Benjamin Edmüller (SUI), 23 p., 5 Angelo Ciccone – Fabio Masotti (SUI), 23 p., 6 Milan Kadlec – Aloïs Kankovsky (CZE), 23 p., 7 Leif Lampater – Christian Grasmann (GER), 26 p., etc. total 17 teams.

You might remember, that already in 2009 Marvulli – Marguet won together the 6-Days in Tilburg.

Like always when something is going on in Zurich, the stayers were also there. Peter Jörg with pacemaker Peter Bäuerlein won ahead of Mario Birrer and Giuseppe Atzeni.

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Jan Derksen in memoriam

 

Another great personality from the golden ages of track-cycling has left this world. Jan Derksen, 3 times sprint World Champion and 13 times Dutch pro sprint champion has died in Amsterdam, 92 years of age.

At the World Championships in Milan September 1939, Jan Derksen became the only rider to leave the championships with a rainbow-jersey. He won the title in amateur sprint, beating the Italian Astolfi in the final. Directly after the 2^nd World War broke out, and the rest of the championships had to be cancelled. Seven years later, in Zurich 1946 at the first post-war championships Derksen had turned professional and won the pro title ahead of the Frenchman Senfftleben. His third and last title he won in 1957 in Liège/Rocourt at an age of 38 after an intensive fight with his closest friend but also his greatest rival throughout his career, Arie van Vliet. 17 times between 1940 and 1957 they disputed the fight for the Dutch title between them. Van Vliet took the best out of it with 10 wins against Jan’s 7, but Jan got his revenge in their last great battle for the world title.

Jan Derksen was a really all-rounder, besides sprint he could do omnium’s, dernyraces, madion’s and even 6-days with success. He loved his métier as a real pro and always did his utmost in order to give the crowd’s, what they paid for.

He stopped his career in Berlin in January 1964, just a couple of days after his 45 years birthday. Afterwards he became manager and did a great job as coordinator between riders and organizers all over Europe, not least in the 6-Days.

All honour to his memory!

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Bartko still on top of Ranking

The Madison World Championship was the last event counting for the UIV Madison Ranking of this season, but the result in Apeldoorn didn’t change much. With 440 points the German "old timer" Robert Bartko preserved his place on top of the ranking, despite the fact that he didn’t participate in Apeldoorn. The Australian World Champions Howard and Meyer each earned 100 points by their victory, but as they have the whole season only participated in three counting events (besides the WC just one 6-Days and one World Cup), they could only make it to places 10 and 11 overall.

Counting for the UIV Ranking are the World Championship Madison, the European Championship, the World Cups (only one World Cup this season had the Madison on their program) and the 6-Days.

Top 15 of the Ranking:

	Rider:	WCh:	6-days:	WCup:	ECh:	Misc.	Total:
1	Robert Bartko (GER)		440				440
2	Danny Stam (NED)		370				370
3	Franco Marvulli (SUI)		295				295
4	Kenny de Ketele (BEL)	20	230		40		290
5	Léon van Bon (NED)		290				290
6	Michael Mørkøv (DEN)		280				280
7	Leif Lampater (GER)		245				245
8	Peter Schep (NED)	60	160	30			250
9	Alex Rasmussen (DEN)		240				240
10	Cameron Meyer (AUS)	100	60	50			210
	Leigh Howard (AUS)	100	60	50			210
12	Jens-Erik Madsen (DEN)		210				210
13	Marc Hester (DEN)		190				190
14	Danilo Hondo (GER)		175				175
15	Iljo Keisse (BEL)		175				175

Find the full ranking here

The UIV Ranking was introduced in the season 1999/2000 with the following winners:

1999/2000 Jimmi Madsen (DEN)
2000/2001 Silvio Martinello (ITA)
2001/2002 Matthew Gilmore (BEL)
2002/2003 Matthew Gilmore (BEL)
2003/2004 Bruno Risi (SUI)
2004/2005 Franco Marvulli (SUI)
2005/2006 Robert Slippens (NED)
2006/2007 Bruno Risi (SUI)
2007/2008 Bruno Risi (SUI)
2008/2009 Franco Marvulli (SUI)
2009/2010 Franco Marvulli (SUI)
201o/2011 Robert Bartko (GER)

Second World Title for Howard – Meyer!

They did it in Copenhagen last year – and they did it again this year in Apeldoorn. The Australian team Leigh Howard – Cameron Meyer took the World Title in 50 Km Madison after a fast race with an average-speed of more than 54 Km/h. The first team to win a lap was the European Champions from the Czech Republic, Martin Blaha – Jiri Hochmann. More teams tried to make equal with them but only the Australians managed to do so. The points decided gold and silver between these two team, and it was already before the final sprint clear, that the Australians would be the winners. Dutch team Peter Schep – Theo Bos ended up with the highest amount of points, but one lap down they had to be content with third place and bronze-medals. Good performances also from the teams from France, Spain and Italy.
The Madison was the highlight of the last day of a successful Championship with every day close to capacity-crowds.

World Championship 50 Km Madison (55 Min. 32,464 Sec. – 54,014 Km/h)
Saturday 27^th March in Apeldoorn (NED):
1 Leigh Howard – Cameron Meyer (AUS), 8 p., 2 Martin Blaha – Jiri Hochmann (CZE), 1 p., at 1 lap: 3 Peter Schep – Theo Bos (NED), 21 p., 4 Vivien Brisse – Morgan Kneisky (FRA), 18 p., 5 Unai Elorriaga – David Muntaner (ESP), 17 p., 6 Elia Viviani – Davide Cimolai (ITA), 13 p., 7 Kenny de Ketele – Tim Mertens (BEL), 7 p., 8 Andreas Graf – Andreas Müller (AUT), 7 p., 9 Weimar Alfonso Roldan – Carlos Alberto Uran (COL), 5 p., 10 Ivan Savitskiy – Kirill Yatsevich (RUS), 4 p., 11 Alexander Aeschbach – Tristan Marguet (SUI), 3 p., 12 Ralf Matzka – Robert Bengsch (GER), 2 p., 13 Aaron Gate – Thomas Scully (NZL), 2 p., at 2 laps: 14 Sebastian Donadio – Luis Fernandez (ARG), 1 p., 15 Sergiy Lagkuti – Mykhaylo Radionov (UKR), 1 p.
Ab.: Ho Ting Kwok – Ho Choi (HKG).

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11 6-Days Events in UIV-Calendar 2011/2012

The organizers of the UIV met for their annual meeting Saturday 26^th March at the World Championships in Apeldoorn. At the meeting the UIV Calendar for 2011/2012 was established with 11 6-Days Events, starting in Fiorenzuola in Italy in the summer and ending in Copenhagen in February.
New in the calendar is Hannover, organizing from 15^th to 20^th December in Messehalle Hannover. Last 6-Days in Hannover took place back in 1981.

6-days UIV
Fiorenzuola (ITA) 27.06 – 02.07
Tilburg (NED) 05.09 - 10.09
Amsterdam (NED) 17.10 – 22.10
Apeldoorn (NED) 14.11 – 19.11
Ghent (BEL) 22.11 - 27.11
Zurich (SUI)* 30.11 – 03.12
Hannover (GER) 15.12 – 20.12
Rotterdam (NED) 05.01 – 10.01
Bremen (GER) 12.01 - 17.01
Berlin (GER) 26.01 - 31.01
Copenhagen (DEN) 02.02 – 07.02

*Sixday Nights (4 days)

Re-election of president
At the meeting UIV-President Henrik Elmgreen from Denmark was re-elected for a new two-year’s term. He was first elected back in 1991 and states, that this will be his last period as president.

UIV Talents Cup
The UIV Talents Cup for riders Under 23 will continue also during the winter 2011/2012. The exact dates for the legs of the UIV Cup will be published later on.

Copenhagen, 28.03.11
Union Internationale des Vélodromes

Bartko best Madison-Rider

The still-going-strong 35 years old German athlete is on top of the UIV Madison ranking 2010/2011

The 6-Days season 2010/2011 ended with the Copenhagen 6-Days from 3^rd to 8^th of February with the third consecutive victory of the firmer Danish World Champions, Alex Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv, but the honor of being the best Madison-Rider of the winter belongs to 35 years old German top-athlete Robert Bartko. He leads the UIV Madison Ranking with 440 points, 70 points ahead of Dutchman Danny Stam. Only one race more counts for this seasons overall, the World Championship in Madison in Apeldoorn Sunday 27^th of March. The World title gives 100 points and a 2^nd place 80 points, so Danny might still be within the reach of the title…

The season 2010/2011 consisted of in total eight 6-Days in framework of UIV. The race in Apeldoorn was cancelled and the race in Tilburg, planned from 14^th to 19^th March, has been postponed to 5^th to 10^th September 2011. With four victories in seven participations Robert Bartko is outstanding the best 6-Day rider today and after the retirement of Bruno Risi the greatest champion on the 6-Days scene.

The dates for the coming seasons 6-Days within the UIV will be definitively decided at the UIV general meeting in Apeldoorn Saturday 26^th of March. Soon after they will be published on www.uiv.dk.

6-Days 2010/2011

Fiorenzuola, 15. – 20. July
1. Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
2. Franco Marvulli (SUI) – Walter Perez (ARG)
3. Jacopo Guarnieri (ITA) – Danny Stam (NED)
4. Marc Hester – Jens-Erik Madsen (DEN)

Amsterdam, 18. – 23. October
1. Robert Bartko – Roger Kluge (GER)
2. Danny Stam – Léon van Bon (NED)
3. Franco Marvulli (SUI) – Niki Terpstra (NED)
4. Wim Stroetinga (NED) – Leif Lampater (GER)

Grenoble, 28. Ocktober – 2. November (not member of UIV)
1. Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI)
2. Danny Stam – Léon van Bon (NED)
3. Jens-Erik Madsen – Marc Hester (DEN)
4. Angelo Ciccone – Elia Viviani (ITA)

 Ghent, 23. – 28. November
1. Iljo Keisse (BEL) – Peter Schep (NED)
2. Kenny de Ketele (BEL) – Leif Lampater (GER)
3. Robert Bartko – Danilo Hondo (GER)
4. Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)

Zürich, 30. November – 5. December
1. Robert Bartko – Danilo Hondo (GER)
2. Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI)
3. Danny Stam – Leon van Bon (NED)
4. Iljo Keisse (BEL) – Tristan Marguet (SUI)

Rotterdam, 6. - 11. January
1. Danny Stam (NED) – Léon van Bon (NED)
2. Iljo Keisse – Kenny de Ketele (BEL)
3. Robert Bartko (GER) – Pim Ligthart (NED)
4. Michael Mørkøv – Jens-Erik Madsen (DEN)

Bremen, 13. - 18. January
1. Robert Bartko – Robert Bengsch (GER)
2. Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI)
3. Marc Hester – Jens-Erik Madsen (DEN)
4. Erik Mohs – Marcel Barth (GER)

Berlin, 27. January – 1. February
1. Robert Bartko – Roger Kluge (GER)
2. Leigh Howard – Cameron Meyer (AUS)
3. Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
4. Franco Marvulli (SUI) – Danilo Hondo (GER)

Copenhagen, 3. – 8. February
1. Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
2. Jens-Erik Madsen – Marc Hester (DEN)
3. Danny Stam – Léon van Bon (NED)
4. Robert Bartko – Robert Bengsch (GER)

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　Peter Post in memoriam

One of the greatest legends in the world of 6-Days, Dutchman Peter Post, died 14th January in Amsterdam at 77. He participated in his long career in 155 6-Days and won 65 which made him for a long period the record-man. He won his first 6-Days in Chicago in 1957 with Harms Smits, the last in November 1971 with Patrick Sercu. A sever crash during the 6-Days of Rotterdam 1972 ended his career. His first teacher in the hard business of 6-Days was the iron-man Gerrit Schulte, and he was to become himself also an iron-man. His most success-full partnerships were with Rik van Looy (10 wins), Fritz Pfenninger (19 wins) and Patrick Sercu (14 wins). He won 13 European titles: 8 behind the Derny’s, 3 in Madison, 1 in omnium and 1 in pursuit. He was 6 time’s Dutch pursuit-champion and won silver at the World’s in 1963 and bronze in 1962 and 1969. Behind the Derny’s he was nearly invincible.
Also on the road he achieved remarkable success. His greatest victory was the Paris – Roubaix in 1964 with a record average-speed (45,129 Km/h. He was Dutch road-champion in 1963 and won Ronde Van Nederland 1960.

After his active career ended he became a very success-full sport director and manager for the Raleigh-team and sport director at the 6-Days in AHOY in Rotterdam a.o.

Peter Post was a personality, not only one the bike but also in the world of cycling in common. If you have once met him, you will probably not have forgotten him…

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Danny Stam on top of UIV-Ranking!

The victory in Rotterdam was the 16^th 6-Days win of Danny Stam and it also brought him on top of the UIV Ranking 2010/2011. The UIV Ranking is a ranking for Madison-Riders, giving points for results in 6-Days, World Championships, World Cups and European Championships Elite. It is the only ranking which gives you a true picture of, who is the most successful Madison-riders.

	Rider:	WCh:	6-days:	WCup:	ECh:	Misc.	Total:
1	Danny Stam (NED)		265				265
2	Robert Bartko (GER)		250				250
3	Léon van Bon (NED)		215				215
4	Kenny de Ketele (BEL)		165		40		205
5	Franco Marvulli (SUI)		195				195

Se the full list here

No 6-Days in Apeldoorn in December 2010
But the 6-Days will return on the Calendar in 2011

The 6-Days in Apeldoorn, planned for 13^th to 18^th December this year, will not take place, but the organizer, Libéma Profcycling, informs us that the 6-Days will be back in 2011.

From projectmanager Martin de Kok we have received the following information:
  Unfortunately I must inform you that we had to cancel the Six of Apeldoorn for this season. Obviously the "Six days" is a serious financial event, but the interest of the foreign teams to compete on the track in Apeldoorn during the same period was crucial to our decision.
  During the national championships, foreign riders will also compete on the track of Omnisport. For them it is the perfect moment to get used to the track, on which the World Championships will take place in march 2011. The national championships were scheduled only one week after the Six of Apeldoorn and because this season we focus on the World Championships and we can make a competion during the national championships with the riders who will compete also in the World Championships we have decided to cancel the Six of Apeldoorn... only for this year; next season we want to organize the second edition of the Six of Apeldoorn again!

I hope you understand our decision.

Libéma Profcycling
Martin de Kok
Projectmanager

The first 6-Days in Apeldoorn took place from 17^th to 22^nd December 2009 and was won by the Dutch-German trio Léon van Bon – Pim Ligthart – Robert Bartko.

 

What’s happening on the 6-Days Tracks…

Season starts in Amsterdam – Stam-Van Bon new Dutch team – Nine Top 6-Days from October 2010 to March 2011

 

Long time, no see…
The 6-Days fans have been waiting since the final in Copenhagen in February with impatience to again experience the special atmosphere and thrill of the real 6-Days. The long summer-holyday was only broken by the 6-Days of Fiorenzuola i July, this charming race in the north of Italy which gathers a great part of the top-international madison-riders and also – which is not less important – offers a great opportunity for youngsters to feel the touch of what 6-Days is about.

Stam – Van Bon Dutch standard-team

 

But very soon the winter-season starts, like last year with the 18^th edition of the Zesdaagse van Amsterdam on the velodrome in Sloten from Monday 18^th to Saturday 23^rd of October. The peloton is not yet published (we will come back with that later in the month) but something we can already announce: Danny Stam and Leon van Bon will be the Dutch top-team, and not only for this event but most likely for most of the races coming winter. An nice combination of two very experienced riders who look very good as a team. Other top-teams in Amsterdam will be last years winners Bartko - Kluge for Germany and Peter Schep with Theo Bos.  With those teams a high standard has been set for the rest of the season!

We can also inform of the participation of Dutch road-champion Niki Terpstra, who has a strong back-ground on the track from his first years as a bike-rider. New faces comes, some old retires: For 36 years old Matthé Pronk the 6-Days in Amsterdam will be his last performance.

Nine Super-SixDays
Nine 6-Days in the regie of the UIV is on the Calendar for the coming season from October 2010 to March 2011. At little bit less than some years ago, but we can assure you, that what you will be seeing will be nine Super-Pro events on high international level. Belove you will find dates and venues for the nine events. You might have heard of other planned 6-Days events, and even seen them in the official calendar of the UCI. We have, during the past months, had some enquiries about these races: "Why are they not on your list, will they take place etc. etc. Now we can tell you that none of the races are going to take place during the winter 2010/2011, and the reason why you haven’t been able to read about them on this website is simple: From our experiences from the last years we have decided only to publish eventual new races and organizers when we know with reasonable certainty that they are going to take place. We can tell you, that also within the UIV organizers there are plans for new 6-Days the coming seasons, but both the UIV and the organizers prefer to wait with great presentations until we can provide you with facts and not only prospects…

UIV Talents Cup
As already announced the UIV Talents Cup will be on again this winter. Read all about it on this website, you can find the links on the frontpage.

Who won in 2009-2010?

Fiorenzuola, 1^st to 6^th July 2009
1 Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI)
2 Bruno Risi (SUI) – Jacopo Guarnieri (ITA)
3 Aloïs Kankovsky – Petr Lazar (CZE)
4 Danny Stam (NED) – Iljo Keisse (BEL)

Amsterdam, 19^th to 24^th October
1 Robert Bartko – Roger Kluge (GER)
2 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
3 Danny Stam (NED) – Leif Lampater (GER)
4 Iljo Keisse – Kenny de Ketele (BEL)
 

Grenoble, 29^th October to 3^rd November
1 Franco Marvulli (SUI) – Luke Roberts (AUS)
2 Leon van Bon – Jef Vermeulen (DEN)
3 Iljo Keisse – Gianni Meersman (BEL)
4 Jens-Erik Madsen – Daniel Kreutzfeldt (DEN)
(Not member of UIV)

Munich, 12^th to 17^th November
1 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
2 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
3 Leif Lampater – Christian Grasmann (GER)
4 Danny Stam – Peter Schep (NED)

 

Ghent, 24^th to 29^th November
1 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
2 Iljo Keisse (BEL) – Roger Kluge (GER)
3 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
4 Danny Stam (NED) – Leif Lampater (GER)

Zurich, 15^th to 20^th December
1 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
2 Leif Lampater – Christian Grasmann (GER)
3 Alexander Aeschbach – Tristan Marguet (SUI)
4 Danilo Hondo – Christian Bach (GER)

Apeldoorn, 17^th to 22^nd December
1 Robert Bartko (GER) – Leon van Bon – Pim Ligthart (NED)
2 Danny Stam – Peter Schep – Tim Veldt (NED)
3 Iljo Keisse (BEL) – Jens Mouris (NED) – Marcel Barth (GER)
4 Michael Vingerling – Geert-Jan Jonkman – Nick Stöpler (NED)

Rotterdam, 7^th to 12^th January 2010
1 Danny Stam (NED) – Iljo Keisse (BEL)
2 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
3 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
4 Leon van Bon (NED) – Leif Lampater (GER)

Bremen, 14^th to 19^th January
1 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
2 Robert Bartko (GER) – Iljo Keisse (BEL)
3 Leif Lampater – Christian Grasmann (GER)
4 Danny Stam – Leon van Bon (NED)

Berlin, 28^th January to 2^nd February
1 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
2 Robert Bartko – Roger Kluge (GER)
3 Danny Stam – Peter Schep (NED)
4 Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI)

Copenhagen, 4^th to 9^th February
1 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
2 Robert Bartko (GER) – Iljo Keisse (BEL)
3 Bruno Risi – Franco Marvulli (SUI)
4 Danny Stam – Peter Schep (NED)

 

World Championships in Copenhagen/Ballerup
Australians new Madison-Champions

Australia took the World Madison Title in Copenhagen with the team of Cameron Meyer and Leigh Howard. Cameron Meyer already won the title in Pointsrace on the first day of the WC-series in Ballerup Super Arena and he was also on the Australian team, winning the final in the team-pursuit towards Great Britain. Together with partner Leigh Howard they were the strongest team in the 50 Km Madison, ridden with an average-speed of 55,880 Km.
The French team Morgan Kneisky – Christophe Riblon took their opponents by surprise by lapping the field already at the very start of the race, and they were soon followed by the Belgian team De Poortere – Schets. The two teams were rewarded for their efforts by silver and bronze, because in the wild chase, which now followed between the supposed top-teams and continued in fact until the end of the race, only the Australian team managed to get equal with the teams from France and Belgium. Very active were the teams from Holland (Stam – Schep), Germany (Bartko – Kluge) and not least the defending champions from Denmark (Rasmussen –Mørkøv), but their efforts were in vain. After their lap-win, the Aussies managed to control the race and close the gaps. And the French and the Belgians were not able to challenge them in the sprints.

World Championship 50 Km Madison in Copenhagen, Saturday 27^th March 2010:
1 Leigh Howard – Cameron Meyer (AUS), 16 p., 2 Morgan Kneisky –Christophe Riblon (FRA), 6 p., 3 Ingmar de Poortere – Steve Schets (BEL), 5 p., at 1 lap: 4 Alex Rasmussen – Michael Mørkøv (DEN), 17 p., 5 Robert Bartko – Roger Kluge (GER), 16 p., 6 Sergey Kolesnikov – Alexey Shmidt (RUS), 13 p., 7 Angelo Ciccone – Elia Viviani (ITA), 9 p., 8 Sebastian Donadio – Walter Perez (ARG), 8 p., 9 Daniel Holloway – Colby Pearce (USA), 7 p., 10 Andreas Graf – Georg Tazreiter (AUT), 2 p., 11 Peter Schep – Danny Stam (NED), 0 p., 12 Martin Blaha – Jiri Hochmann (CZE), 0 p., 13 Ki Ho Choi – Kam-Po Wong (HKG), 0 p., 14 Marc Ryan – Thomas Scully (NZL), 0 p., at 2 laps: 15 Alexander Aeschbach – Franco Marvulli (SUI), 6 p., at 3 laps: 16 Serguy Lagkuti – Mykhaylo Radionov (UKR), 0 p.
Abandoned: Unai Elorriaga – Antonio Tauler (ESP) and Lukasz Bujko – Dawid Glowacki (POL).

50 km in 53 Min. 41,162 Sec. (55,880 km/h).

HE

 

MADISON AND POINTSRACE IN OLYMPIC DANGER…

6-Days will survive, but to delete Madison and Points Race from the Olympic program would be a blow to modern track-cycling

Madison Champions: Left World Champions Mørkøv-Rasmussen from Denmark, right European Champions from Germany Kluge-Bartko.
Will there be a title for them to fight for in London...

 Some weeks ago we learned only through the medias, that two of the most popular track-disciplines, Madison and Points Race, were to be deleted from the Olympic program as from London 2012. At least that was a part of the plan for a revise of the standard-program that the UCI-top would propose to the IOC coming December. 

Olympic program of Beijing 2008:
Men:	Women:
Sprint	Sprint
Keirin	Indiv. Pursuit
Team Sprint	Points Race
Indiv. Pursuit
Team Pursuit
Madison
Points Race

 Seven disciplines for Men (3 sprint + 4 endurance) and three disciplines for women (1 sprint and 2 endurance), in total 10 disciplines.

The UCI proposal for London 2012:
Men	Women:
Sprint	Sprint
Keirin	Keirin
Team Sprint	Team Sprint
Team Pursuit	Team Pursuit
Omnium	Omnium

 Ten disciplines. Five for men and five for women, composed with 3 sprint, 1 endurance and 1 “all round” (Omnium). 

 UIV meets with UCI-President Pat Mc Quaid
After learning that, the UIV-President Henrik Elmgreen decided to write a letter to UCI-President Pat McQuaid with our comments to this proposal, which we find as not acceptable, not only for the UIV and the 6-Days, but absolutely also not in the best interest of track-cycling in common.  You can read this letter beneath.  At the Manchester World Cup, UCI-President Pat Mc Quaid kindly accepted to meet with the UIV (represented by the President Henrik Elmgreen and our member Architect Ralph Schürmann) Saturday morning the 30^th of October.  We presented our letter and had an informal talk about the issue.

 From this talk we learned, that it has with no doubt been the demand from the IOC to create more equality between men and women - but without an ultimate demand for absolute equality.  It has also not been mandatory, that the five disciplines for men and women absolutely should be the same (as one knows men and women are not absolutely alike…).  To what extent the IOC has given advices as for the choice of disciplines is not quit clear, but their might have been some “guidelines” in direction of short and “easy to understand” disciplines (read: “Easy” also for television).

 The UCI-President expressed his understanding for our points of view, but on the other hand he made it quit clear, that a decision had been taken (by the UCI Management Committee) and that it would not be subject for changes. 

 A blow to modern track-cycling
The UCI-president regards the case as closed, even if the official decision by the IOC has not yet been taken.  The question – not only for the UIV but also for federations, organisers, officials, riders and everybody with interest in and love for track-cycling – should be, whether we shall just accept this as a fact or try to start a movement in hope of changing the attitude of the UCI Board.  Because in our opinion to remove the Madison and the Points Race and so strongly reduce the endurance-disciplines would be a blow to modern track-cycling. The proposed program would very likely reduce the number of nations participating in the Olympic track-events, and it would for sure reduce the number of nations with realistic chances for Olympic medals.  Neither of those two options should - in our opinion - meet the aims and the ideas of the Olympic movement.

 But will it still be possible to avoid this disaster?
In our opinion: YES. 
If some members of the UCI Management Committee will stand up and raise their voices and say, that they disagree.
And, if federations, organisers and other bodies acting within the world of track-cycling asks for an open discussion of this matters, since it concerns the future of track-cycling for all.   Such a discussion hasn’t taken place at all, even the UCI’s own Track Commission hasn’t been heard.  

 The UIV has spoken out, we hope to see others follow and we will promise our support!

 Patrick Sercu:
Comme on a discuté ensemble à Gand, ce changement de programme et elimination des épreuves de fond aux Jeux sera le début de la fin du cyclisme sur piste !  Le cyclisme sur piste est plus que la vitesse et la poursuite par équipe !

 As we have discussed together in Gent, this change in program and the elimination of such basic disciplines from the Games will be the begining of the end of track-cycling !
Track cycling is more than sprint and team-pursuit !

Gabriel Curuchet:
For the first time in history the Olympic Games will come to South-America in 2016, and the UCI decides to delete the disciplines on the track, where riders from our Continent have achieved their greatest exploits during the years. With such a decision automatically 15 nations are excluded from winning Olympic medals. I just don’t understand it.

 You can see the letter from UIV to UCI att. President Pat Mc Quaid here

 

RESULTS FROM EUROPEAN TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS IN GHENT
Saturday 17^th to Sunday 18^th October 2009
Photos:  Karl Franke

Madison Elite – 50 Km

1 Roger Kluge – Robert Bartko (GER) 15 p.
2 Sergey Kolesnikov – Alexey Chmidt (RUS) 13 p.
3 Danny Stam – Peter Schep (NED) 10 p.
4 Jiri Hochmann – Milan Kadlec (CZE) 9 p.
5 Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SUI) 2 p.
at 1 lap:
6 Kenny de Ketele – Tim Mertens BEL) 23 p.
7 Rafal Ratajczyk – Lukasz Bujko (POL) 13 p.
8 Alex Buttazzoni – Angelo Ciccone (ITA) 12 p.
9 Christian Grassmann – Leif Lampater (GER) 8 p.
10 Andreas Müller – Georg Tazreiter (AUT) 3 p.
at 3 laps
11 Roman Maxinov – Leonid Krasnov (RUS) 0 p.

Madison U 23 – 40 Km

1 Jan Dostal – Vojtech Hacecky (CZE) 16 p.
2 Artur Ershov – Valery Kaykov (RUS) 15 p.
3 Kirill Baranov – Alexander Petrovskiy (RUS) 12 p.
4 Pim Lighart – Jeff Vermeulen (NED) 11 p.
5 Morgan Kneisky – Julien Duval (FRA) 8 p.
6 Tristan Marguet – Loic Perizzolo (SUI) 7 p.
7 Jochen de Weer – Gijs van Hocke (BEL) 5 p.
8 Theo Reinhardt – Thomas Juhas (GER) 5 p.
9 Philip Nielsen – Christian Ranneries (DEN) 3 p.
10 Elia Viviani – Thomas Alberio (ITA) 2 p.
11 Silvan Dillier – Claudio Imhof (SUI) 2 p.
12 Michael Vingerling – Nick Stöpler (NED) 2 p.
13 Tino Thomel – Bastian Faltin (GER) 0 p.
14 Mickael Jeannin – Kevin Fouache (FRA) 0 p.

Endurance Omnium Men

1 Rafael Ratajczyk – POL 49 p.
2 Robert Bartko – GER 35 p.
3 Unai Elorriaga – ESP 34 p.
4 Andreas Müller – AUT 33 p.
5 Jiri Hochmann – CZE 33 p.
6 Tim Mertens – BEL 30 p.
7 Angelo Ciccone – ITA 22 p.
8 Franco Marvulli – SUI 22 p.

Derny Finale – 30 Km

1 Kenny de Ketele – BEL (Michel Vaarten)
2 Matthe Pronk – NED (Joop Ziljaard)
3 Roger Kluge – GER (Peter Bauerlein)
4 Alessandro de Marchi – ITA (Cordiano Dagnioni)
5 Andreas Graf – AUT (Andre de Raedt)
6 Tim Van der Zanden – NED (Cees Stam)
7 Kristof Goddaert – BEL (Erwin Schoefs)
Ab Matthieu Ladagnous – FRA (Raymond Persyn)

Sprinters Omnium - Men
1 Denis Spicka – CZE 51 p.
2 Francois Pervis – FRA 45 p.
3 Andriy Vynokurov – UKR 36 p.
4 Kamil Kuczynski – POL 32 p
5 Quentin Lafargue – FRA 31 p.
6 Lukasz Kwiatkowski – POL 26 p.
7 Christos Volikakis – GRE 24 p.
8 Filip Ditzel – CZE 22 p.
9 Francesco Ceci – ITA 20 p.
10 Clemens Selzer – AUT 15 p.

 

 

6-Days Season starts in Amsterdam!

Probably 13 6-Days on the calendar coming winter after drop out of Dortmund

The new 6-Days season will start in Amsterdam on Monday 19^th of October and not as foreseen in London, where the first 6-Days in the British capital since 1980 where planned from 6^th to 11^th of October.
  - We are still keen to organise the race, but we have had to move our plans a bit forward, the old British 6-Days star, Tony Doyle, explains. Tony Doyle is the man behind the project and he has decided to move his race to the early spring, 2^nd to 9^th of March probably.

Dortmund out
For another 6-Days it is definitively out. The legendary "Dortmunder 6-Tagerennen" in the Westfalenhalle will not take place in 2009 (in the calendar with the dates from 29^th October to 3^rd November) and Mr. Ernst Claussmeyer, who has been the man behind the race for many years doubt very much whether it will come back. He has fought a hard battle in order to maintain the event, but now the battle is over and the last laps has been taken in a 6-Days which story goes back to 1926. It is at the same time also a good-bye to the oldest event at all in the Westfalenhalle, "Grosser Weihnachtspreis" traditionally run on 2^nd Christmas day. Even if it didn’t anymore attract the same vast crowds as in the past, still about 8.-9.000 people gathered together in Dortmund every year for this very special event.

No more 6-Days in Dortmund...

A special problem
Henrik Elmgreen, president of the pro track-organisers organisation UIV, is off course too sorry about the sad news from Dortmund:
  - Dortmund has been an institution in the world of 6-Days as long as I can remember. We will sure miss the race in Dortmund, which had a great reputation as one of the most prestigious races on the calendar. But I see this as a special problem, not directly linked to the popularity of the 6-Days but more to special local problems – and perhaps to a certain degree also to the general problems in German cycling in common. Mr. Claussmeyer has done a great work for track-cycling, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we should see him as an organiser once again…

Progress in Holland
With 13 races on the UIV-list for the coming winter plus the race in Fiorenzuola in the summer you can say, that the 6-Days organisers’ still provides a very important part of the activities on the international track-calendar (which also includes the 6-Days of Grenoble, not a member of the UIV). In Holland you can talk about a progress. The existing races in Amsterdam and Rotterdam will this winter be followed by the first 6-Days of Apeldoorn, and the track in Alkmaar is also very active, even if they are not organising a 6-Days. For the second time they will in February host the final of The UIV Talents Cup.

Find the full calendar here

 

Danish Victory
Rasmussen – Mørkøv won World-title in Pruszkow

(HE from Pruszkow)
Already for some years they have been regarded as one of the "coming-teams" in the world of Madison and 6-Days. They took at bronze-medal in last years World Championship in Manchester, they have won the Grenoble 6-Days twice and this year they won the 6-Days on their home-track in Ballerup/Copenhagen. But the ultimate victory came Saturday at the World Championships in Pruszkow in Poland.
In a very fast and demanding race the Danish team were aggressive right from the start, winning the 1^st and the 3^rd sprint, but then the Czech team Blaha – Hochmann managed to take a lap alone and for a time looked like the new champions. But the Danes stroke back and after a hard fight they managed to take a lap with just 10 Km to go. Later also the Australians came around, so three teams ended up on zero but with Rasmussen – Mørkøv as overwhelming winners on points.
Mark Cavendish rode a fine race, but his partner Peter Kennaugh, who had a crash, was not able to give him full support.
Look at the result beneath and note how many of the names in the top-ranking you will remember from the last year’s UIV Talents Cup. Astonishing, isn’t it…..

Result of World Championship 50 Km Madison in Pruszkow (POL), 28^th March 2009:
1 Alex Rasmussen - Michael Mørkøv (DEN) 22 p.
2 Cameron Meyer - Leigh Howard (AUS) 2 p.
3 Martin Blaha - Jiri Hochmann (CZE) 0 p.

At 1 lap:
4 Kenny De Ketele - Tim Mertens (BEL) 17 p.
5 Roger Kluge - Olaf Pollack (GER) 15 p.
6 Mark Cavendish - Peter Kennaugh (GBR) 13 p.
7 Angelo Ciccone - Elia Viviani (ITA) 10 p.
8 Daniel Holloway - Colby Pearce (USA) 7 p.
9 Sergiy Lagkuti - Mykhaylo Radionova (UKR) 0 p.
10 Alexander Aeschbach - Franco Marvulli (SUI) 0 p.
11 Pim Ligthart - Wim Stroetinga (NED) 0 p.

At 2 laps:
12 Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur - David Muntaner Juaneda (ESP) 7 p.
13 Lukasz Bujko - Rafal Ratajczyk (POL) 7 p.
14 Sebastian Donadio - Martin Garrido (ARG) 6 p.
15 Mikhail Ignatiev - Alexei Markov (RUS) 3 p.
16 Julien Duval - Morgan Kneisky (FRA) 1 p.
17 Andreas Graf - Andreas Müller (AUT) 0 p.
18 Juan Arango Carvajal - Carlos Alberto Uran Arroyabe (COL) 0 p.