Since its beginning last Thursday the Copenhagen Six Days has been beset by illness and yesterday health problems in the peloton once again haunted the organisers. Belgian Jasper De Buyst had been leading the race right from the start together with Danish team mate Marc Hester but yesterday he was force to abandon the race due to a high fever. Hester was then paired with another Belgian, the 21-year old Otto Vergaerde but they were unable to keep up with the best teams in last night’s dreaded handicap Madison.

Austrians Müller and Graf made all their experience count and dominated the early stages of the Madison – with a lot of help from the remaining Germans in the peloton – but in the end Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw emerged as the dominant force, repeatedly attacking their main rivals and putting them under a lot of pressure.

The Belgians lead going into the final evening but Alex Rasmussen and Jesper Mørkøv will most likely gain a bonus lap before the decisive Madison and thus reclaim the lead. Tuesday evening promises to be an exciting conclusion to the 2015-16 Six Days season.

General classification after day 5:

1 Kenny De Ketele - Moreno De Pauw (Belgium) 213

2 Andreas Müller - Andreas Graf (Austria) 116

At 1 lap

3 Jesper Mørkøv - Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) 275

At 2 laps

4 Otto Vergaerde (Belgium) - Marc Hester (Denmark) 194

At 12 laps

5 Daniel Holloway (USA) - Daniel Hartvig (Denmark) 159

At 21 laps

6 Sebastian Wotschke - Hans Pirius (Germany) 91

At 25 laps

7 Roy Pieters (Holland) - Simon Bigum (Denmark) 108

8 Nick Stöpler (Holland) - David Muntaner (Spain) 74

At 28 laps

9 Wojtek Pszczolarski (Poland) - Frederik Schwartz (Denmark) 126

At 29 laps

10 Mathias Krigbaum - Elias Helleskov Busk (Denmark) 112

At 34 laps

11 Christian Grasmann - Marcel Kalz (Germany) 58

At 38 laps

12 Martin Blaha - Ondrej Vendolsky (Czech Republic) 50

At 39 laps

13 Achim Burkart - Marcel Barth (Germany) 50