Yesterday Alex Rasmussen and Jesper Mørkøv won the 54th edition of the Copenhagen Six Days as they managed to defend against repeated attacks from Müller/Graf and, especially, De Ketele and De Pauw.
The final Madison was marred by illness, though, as was the entire race. On Monday Marc Hester lost his partner, Jasper De Buyst, after the team had been in charge of the race right from the start. Hester was then partnered with Belgian Otto Vergaerde and the team was in an excellent position to challenge for the win when Vergaerde also fell ill and had to withdraw from the race.
Mørkøv and Rasmussen, who was distanced by ten laps in the Berlin Six Days when Rasmussen suffered from illness early in the race, had amassed more points than their rivals in the early stages of the race and that allowed them to ride defensively in the final and their adversaries were unable to break them.
Overall classification after day 6:
1 Jesper Mørkøv - Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) 349
2 Kenny De Ketele - Moreno De Pauw (Belgium) 272
3 Andreas Müller - Andreas Graf (Austria) 164
At 20 laps
4 Daniel Holloway (USA) - Daniel Hartvig (Denmark) 195
At 27 laps
5 Sebastian Wotschke - Hans Pirius (Germany) 136
At 32 laps
6 Roy Pieters (Holland) - Simon Bigum (Denmark) 120
At 33 laps
7 Nick Stöpler (Holland) - David Muntaner (Spain) 90
At 37 laps
8 Wojtek Pszczolarski (Poland) - Frederik Schwartz (Denmark) 150
9 Marcel Kalz (Germany) - Elias Helleskov Busk (Denmark) 113
At 48 laps
10 Lucas Liss (Germany) - Mathias Krigbaum (Denmark) 135
At 49 laps
11 Martin Blaha - Ondrej Vendolsky (Czech Republic) 73
DNF Jasper De Buyst (Belgium) - Marc Hester (Denmark)
DNF Otto Vergaerde (Belgium) - Yoeri Havik (Holland)
DNF Achim Burkart - Marcel Barth (Germany)
DNF Christian Grasmann (Germany)
DNF Melvin Van Zijl (Holland)
Raoul LIEBREGTS 49 years | today |
Andrew ROCHE 53 years | today |
Jay DUTTON 31 years | today |
Rolando AMARGO 28 years | today |
Serge JOOS 40 years | today |
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