As foreseen the British team Bellis – Kennaugh was untouchable in the last leg of the UIV Talents Cup in Copenhagen, but the 3^rd place for Dutchmen Pieters – Jonkman was enough to secure an overall victory in the UIV Cup 2007/2008. The British team came 2^nd in the and Danes Jesper Mørkøv – Ranneries took 3^rd place in the overall of the winter.

The 5^th stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Copenhagen gave an unexpected victory to the Italian-American combination Samuele Marzoli – Jackie Simes IV. Together with the Danish team Lollesgaard – Linde they took the peleton by surprise and gained a lap early in the long 60 Minutes Madison. The overall leaders Bellis – Kenneaugh were satisfied with controlling their closest rivals.

Also on Sunday’s stage of 50 Minutes Kennaugh – Bellis controlled the UIV Talents Cup in Copenhagen. They won the their 3^rd stage-victory and leads the overall with one lap and an overwhelming points-score.

Once again the British team Bellis – Kennaugh showed the other teams, who is in command at the UIV Talents Cup in Copenhagen: It is Rule Britannia! Already leading after the 2^nd stage Bellis – Kennaugh won again on the 3^rd, and with a clear lap to the rest of the bunch. They are now solo-leaders and with the highest amount of points. Beating them will be very difficult.

The British team Bellis – Kennaugh won the 2^nd stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Copenhagen on Friday ahead of the Danish team Kristiansen – Sellebjerg. Those two teams ended in the same lap with the following teams one lap down. That meant that the winners from Berlin took over the lead in the overall.

The Danish team Philip Nielsen – Mads Rydicher won the 1^st stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Copenhagen, a 4o Minutes Madison. 12 out of the 14 starting teams ended up in the same lap. Dutch team Pieters – Jonkman, actual overall leaders of the Cup, took 3^rd place and stay good chances to defend their leading position.

After a 120 laps pointrace once again won by British team Bellis – Kennaugh and a 40 Minutes Madison this time won by the Czechs Hochman/Dorstal the overall stand changed with the British boys in the lead in front of the Czechs and with the Dutch team third.

Overall in UIV Talents Cup in Berlin after 2nd day:
1 Jonathan Bellis – Peter Kennaugh (GBR), 60 p., 2 Jiri Hochman – Jiri Dostal (CZE), 47 p., 3 Roy Pieters Geert-Jan Jonkman (NED), 47 p., 4 Michael Schweizer – Christoph Schweizer (GER), 38 p., 5 Casper Jørgensen – Daniel Kreutzfeldt (DEN), 22 p., 6 Bastian Faltin – Karl-Christian König (GER),17 p., 7 Loic Perizzolo – Kilian Moser (SUI), 16 p., 8 Blazej Janiaczyk – Wojciech Dybel (POL), 14 p., 9 Philip Nielsen – Jesper Mørkøv (DEN), 14 p., 10 Felix Schönecker (GER) – Jackie Simes IV (USA), 10 p., 11 Georg Tazreiter – Patrick Gelosky (AUT), 8 p., 12 Norman Dimde – Sascha Damrow (GER), 3 p.,

After a 100 laps pointrace won by British team Bellis – Kennaugh and a 40 Minutes Madison with the Dutch team Pieters – Jonkman as best team ahead of Hochman – Dostal, the overall after 1^st day of the UIV Talents Cup in Berlin had Pieters – Jonkman as overall leaders.

No big changes in the overall of UIV Talents Cup in Stuttgart after 2^nd day. Still two teams leading with one lap to a group of 10 teams. Last stage of the UIV Talents Cup is for today, Sunday 20^th February.

It looks like it might have been an exciting final in the UIV Talents Cup in Rotterdam. Yesterdays winners Kip – Moser managed to preserve their lead but they were hard pressed by the Swiss team Bally – Perizzolo, winning the last stage with a clear lap and then on level with the leaders. Thus the points decided and Kip – Moser won with 7 points ahead of the Swiss. Ligthart – Vermeulen and Kennaugh – Swift, dominating the first two days, ended 3^rd and 4^th respectively.

New development in UIV Talents Cup in Rotterdam: The Dutch-Swiss combination Kip – Moser won the stage on Monday and managed together with the teams Bally – Perizzolo and Tazreiter – Gelosky to take a lap from the leading teams so far, Ligthart – Vermeulen and Kennaugh – Swift. That makes Kip – Moser new leaders before the final on Tuesday.

A very close race in the UIV Talents Cup in Rotterdam after Sunday’s 3^rd stage: Only three points between Dutchmen Ligthart – Vermeulen and British lions Kennaugh – Swift. The British team won the 3^rd stage but the Dutchmen leads the overall.

The two first stages of the UIV Talents Cup in Rotterdam were dominated by the British team Kennaugh – Swift (winners of Friday) and the Dutch team Ligthart – Vermeulen (winners on Saturday). After two days of racing they are on the top of the overall – with not less than eight of the (only) 10 teams in the same lap. On the starting-list were 13 teams? What happens to the rest? And in many teams we see changes in the originally foreseen teams. We have a slight impression, that some riders and some coaches are not taking the UIV Cup and there start-obligations very seriously – a matter to be considered when the conditions for participating in next years Cup shall be settled…

The Danish team Nielsen - Rydicher won the final stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Zurich Sunday evening, but the Czech team of Martin and Vojtech Hacecky managed to preserve their leading position in the final overall. They thus won this leg of the UIV Cup with one lap ahead of five other teams with Moser – Perizzolo from Switzerland 2^nd and the German team Matzka – Schaar 3^rd.
Next round of the UIV Talents Cup will be in Rotterdam.

The 2^nd stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Zurich was won by the Czech team Martin and Vojtech Hacecky with one lap to the next five teams and they now leads the overall before the 3^rd and last stage on Sunday. 30 Km Madison in 34 Min. 28,0 Sec. (52,224 Km/h)

Overall after 2^nd stage of UIV Talents Cup in Zurich
1 Martin Hacecky – Vojtech Hacecky (CZE), 6 p., at 1 lap: 2 Kilian Moser – Luic Perizzolo (SUI), 16 p., 3 Christian Ranneries – Jesper Mørkøv (DEN), 11 p., 4 Ralf Matzka – Fabian Schaar (GER), 11 p., 5 Philip Nielsen – Mads Rydicher (DEN), 6 p., 6 Felix Schönecker – Michael Schweizer (GER), 3 p., at 4 laps: 7 Tristan Marquet (SUI) – Davy Tuytens (BEL), 13 p., at 5 laps: 8 Dan Harm – Adrian Hegyvary (USA), 0 p., at 6 laps: 9 Robin Traber – Michael Sutter (SUI), 0 p., at 9 laps: 10 Marcello Bertolo – Alex Buttazoni (ITA), 0 p., 11 Marco Stefanutti – Michael Riedle (SUI), 0 p.
Abandoned: Damien Corthésy – Loïc Gisiger (SUI).

After a break since the 6-Days of Ghent the UIV Talents Cup is on again with a 3-Days race during the 6-Days of Zurich. 12 teams were on the starting-line, and the first stage of 30 Km was unfortunately marked by some crashes. In the end seven teams ended up in the same lap with the Swiss-Belgian combination Tristan Marquet – Davy Tuytens as the fastest.

The final victory in the UIV Talents Cup in Ghent went to the British boys Kennaugh – Blythe in front of Subrt – Mixa and with the Belgians Tuytens – Van der Sande with most points but one lap down, the lap they lost on Saturday third. The Madison was wom by East – Simes one lap ahead of the rest of the bunch and three laps ahead of De Fauw – Sprengers.

The Madison winners:                                                   

In the fight in the UIV Talents Cup in Ghent the British boys Kennaugh – Blythe managed to take a lap from the Belgians Tuytens – Van der Sande and they are now in the lead. Also on zero we find Subrt –Mixa and the Danes are only one lap down so we are eager to find out what will happen in the final to day. The Madison of the night was won by another Belgian team Vlasseleer – van Immerseel which brought them on step up.

The fight in the UIV Talents Cup in Ghent is still between Tuytens – Van der Sande and Kennaugh - Blythe. Before the madison the team Mertens – De Winter again showed their abilities in the 500 Meters TT, winning with 29,67 Sec. ahead of Tuytens – Van der Sande, but in the Madison the British team Kennaugh – Blythe took a revenge by winning on points ahead of Tuytens – Van der Sande. Subrt – Mixa are still in the same lap of the two leading teams while the Danes Mørkøv – Ranneries lost one lap to the top-teams.
Before the start a new team was build with the Americains East – Simes, as their partners Caroll and Wiswell had abandoned the race. Just after the final sprint of the Madison the Danish rider Ranneries hade a crash and both Ligneel and Mertens couldn’t avoid a collision. Fortunately no sever damages seemed to occur.

You can find the total overall in the UIV Talents Cup 2007/2008 here

Also the 3^rd stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Ghent was won by Tuytens – Van der Sande. The four top-teams in the overall so far plus Vlasselaer – Van Immerseel all ended up in the same lap and again with the Belgium’s as the fastest sprinters. No big changes in the overall halfway in the tace.

The 2^nd stage of The UIV Talents Cup in Ghent brought a new team on the top: The Belgium’s Tuytens – Van der Sande won the Madison, beating Kennaugh – Blythe with 3 points, and took over the leading position. A flying lap for all teams was won by Mertens – De Winter (9,14 Sec. for 166 Meters) with Tuytens – Van der Sande 2^nd and Marquet – Schibli 3^rd. Four teams in the same lap in the overall after two days.

The British team Peter Kennaugh – Adam Blythe defended the British interest in the best manor during the first stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Ghent 6-Days. Five teams ended the first Madison in the same lap, with the British boys as winners, two points ahead of Belgium team Tuytens – Van der Sande. And the report from Ghent tells us, that Kennaugh - Blythe was also the team with the greatest fighting-spirit on the opening day.

A rather good day for the Netherlands in Munich. While Slippens – Stam managed to advance to 2^nd place in the overall of the "big" 6-Days, the team Ligthart – Vermeulen won the 3^rd stage of the "little" one – and took also the overall victory in this third leg of this year's competition. Already last year we saw nice performances from Ligthart – Vermeulen in the UIV Talents Cup. This year we hope to see them go on through the whole competition…

The 2^nd stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Munich was won by the Austrian team Tazreiter – Graf ahead of Ligthart – Vermeulen, Bailly – Baumgartner and Jørgensen – Lollesgaard. Those four teams ended up in the same lap, with nr. 5 Tuytens – Van der Sander one lap behind.
After two stages Tazreiter – Graf and Bailly – Baumgartner are equal on points in the overall.

Thursday started in Munich the 3^rd leg of this seasons UIV Talents Cup. 15 teams from 8 nations, but with out the winners from Amsterdam and Dortmund, Oldman – Howard from Australia. A strong performance by the Swiss team Bailly – Baumgartner, winning the stage with one clear lap.

The Dutch team Jonkman – Pieters managed to win the 3^rd and last stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Dortmund, but with 2^nd place (one lap behind) the Australians Miles Oldmann – Leigh Howard was still the undisputed winners also of the 2^nd leg of this seasons Cup.

Also the second stage of the UIV Talents Cup in Dortmund was won by the strong Australians Miles Oldmann – Leigh Howard. They won the 40 Km Madison one lap ahead of Schönecker – Jakob with the next teams from 2 to 5 laps down.

After their triumph in Amsterdam the Australians Miles Oldmann and Leigh Howard sure goes for another win in the 2^nd stage af the UIV Talents Cup in Dorftmund, run over three days. They won the first 40 km Madison with a clear lap ahead of their closest opponents.

Result Madison 40 km:
1. Miles Oldmann - Leigh Howard, 24 p., at 1 lap: 2. Jan Geert Jonkman – Roy Pieters 19p., 3. Mariusz Wiesiak – Rafal Ratajczyk 17p., 4. Maxime Bally – Renè Schibli 6p., 5. Michael Schweizer – Christoph Schweizer 3p., at 2 laps: 6. Felix Schönecker – Oliver Jakob 8p., 7. David Wiswell – Jackie Simes 4p., 8. Thomas Murray – Dave Mertens 2p., at 3 laps: 9. Brian Crosby – Adrian Hegyvary 3p., at 4 laps: 10. Gui E. East – Austin J. Carroll 2p., at 5 laps: 11. Jakob Massen – Thomas Rademacher 0p., at 7 laps: 12. Sascha Wolf – Oliver Hack 0p., at 8 laps: 13. Kieran De Fauw – Brian Ligneel 0p.

Stand after 1^st stage:
  1. Miles Oldmann - Leigh Howard, 15 p., 2. Jan Geert Jonkman – Roy Pieters 13 p., 3. Mariusz Wiesiak – Rafal Ratajczyk 11 p., 4. Maxime Bally – Renè Schibli 9 p., 5. Michael Schweizer – Christoph Schweizer 7 p., 6. Felix Schönecker – Oliver Jakob 5p., 7. David Wiswell – Jackie Simes 4 p., 8. Thomas Murray – Dave Mertens 3 p., 9. Brian Crosby – Adrian Hegyvary 2 p., 10. Gui E. East – Austin J. Carroll 1 p., 11 Sascha Wolf – Oliver Hack 0 p., 12. Kieran De Fauw – Brian Ligneel 0 p., 13. Jakob Massen – Thomas Rademacher 0 p.

The Australien team Oldman – Howard won the first leg of this winters UIV Talents Cup in Amsterdam. The final stage on Saturday was a 250 laps Madison (50 Km) with 5 intermediate sprints. At lot of attacks was made against the Australians, already leaders after the 2^nd stage, but only the Danish team Casper Jørgensen – Daniel Kreutzfeldt managhed to stay in the same lap as Oldman – Howard. When it came to the battle for points, the Australians got the better out of it and won a clear victory with 38 points against 13 points to the Danes.

In the UIV Talents Cup 2007/2008 in Amsterdam Jonkman – Pieters won the stage but Oldman – Howard captures the lead. Marquet – Stark who were the leaders after the first day lost a lap which meant that they are now in 5^th place.

With the 6-Days of Amsterdam starts also a new round of the UIV Talents Cup Under 25. It will be the fifth edition of the Cup and again this year we have introduced some minor changes.
Please note that their will be from this year a maximum gear of 52 x 16 or 49 x 15.

You can reed the full regulations here.

Also this year the interest for the UIV Talents Cup has been tremendous, and that means that we have not been able to fulfil all the wishes and requests from riders, coaches etc. We ask for your understanding for what in fact could be called a "luxury problem".

A little bit of history: The UIV Talents Cup was introduced in 2003/2004 and won by the Belgium team Iljo Keisse – Dmitri De Fauw. The main goal of the Cup was to create new riders and new stars for the 6-Days and Iljo Keisse is a very good example in this regard, but a lot of other young talented riders have together with him found their way into the 6-Days by the UIV Cup.

The UIV Talents Cup in Madison was this winter disputed for the 4^th time, and for the 3^rd time the overall victory went to Belgium. The Cup, open for riders under 25 and organised by the members of Union Internationale des Vélodromes within the frames for the Elite/Pro 6-days, was again this winter an extreme success with participation of more than 100 different riders from 16 nations. The competition this winter consisted of nine legs (Amsterdam, Dortmund, Munich, Ghent, Rotterdam, Bremen, Stuttgart, Berlin and Copenhagen) of which the Belgium team Ingmar de Poortere – Tim Mertens won in Rotterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen.