As expected, the final evening of the 105th Berlin Six Days did little to alter the general classification. Try as they might, Roger Kluge/Marcel Kalz and Yoeri Havik/Nick Stöpler were unable to bridge the gap to Kenny de Ketele and Moreno de Pauw.
The German duo did gain back a lap in the decisive Madison but that only served to cut the Belgians’ lead in half and de Ketele/de Pauw had everything under control and emerged as deserved victors courtesy of a powerful display of strength on the penultimate day when tactics between their main rivals also proved decisive.
With the win in Berlin de Ketele and de Pauw take their tally to two wins this season after winning the Six Days in London in October 2015. In addition, de Ketele also won the Bremen Six Days together with German Christian Grassman. The Belgian duo will be looking to add another victory as the Copenhagen Six Days kicks off tomorrow.
General classification after day 6:
1 Kenny de Ketele - Moreno de Pauw (Belgium) 258
At 1 lap
2 Marcel Kalz - Roger Kluge (Germany) 266
At 2 laps
3 Nick Stöpler - Yoeri Havik (Holland) 225
At 5 laps
4 Germain Burton - Mark Stewart (Great Britain) 216
At 6 laps
5 Nico Heßlich - Christian Grasmann (Germany) 179
At 8 laps
6 Morgan Kneisky (France) - David Muntaner (Spain) 158
At 10 laps
7 Alex Rasmussen - Jesper Mørkøv (Denmark) 122
At 12 laps
8 Nils Politt - Tino Thömel (Germany) 122
At 14 laps
9 Mathias Krigbaum - Marc Hester (Denmark) 85
10 Roy Pieters (Holland) - Andreas Graf (Austria) 82
At 17 laps
11 Lucas Liß (Germany) - Andreas Müller (Austria) 91
At 23 laps
12 Hans Pirius - Sebastian Wotschke (Germany) 103
At 28 laps
13 Jan Kraus - Martin Blaha (Czech Republic) 27
At 29 laps
14 Wojtek Pszczolarski - Adrian Tekliński (Poland) 62
At 42 laps
15 Marcel Barth - Achim Burkart (Germany) 12
DNF Daniel Holloway (USA) - Melvin van Zijl (Holland) 36
Georgia CATTERICK 27 years | today |
Sara CASASOLA 25 years | today |
Jose Antonio GIMENEZ DIAS 47 years | today |
Heinrich BERGER 39 years | today |
Kevin MOLLOY 54 years | today |
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