After an unusually exciting week at the Six Days of Rotterdam, Iljo Keisse and Niki Terpstra hae win the race for the third year in a row. The defending champions took the lead on the final day from Jasper de Buyast and Kenny De Ketele when the latter had to withdraw due to illness. Danes Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen were three laps behind in second while the Spanish madison world champions David Muntaner and Albert Torres took third. Terpstra now has three Rotterdam victories on his palmares while Keisse has won an impressive five times. With more than 29.000 spectators, the race enjoyed big interest from the public and surpassed the numbers from last year.. Victory is for Keisse the fifth triumph in Rotterdam. Public interest was this year in the elevator; more than 29,000 visitors, the number of spe

"With the new features in the program, we seem to have found the right format," said race director Michael Zijlaard. "Sometimes the riders had to get used to it but Peter Schep and I received enthusiastic feedback from those guys. The shorter races, the bigger importance of the points race and the fact that the derny races now form a separate competition have turned it into a beautiful six days.. And then we have not even talked about the elements of show and audience interaction. " 

At the beginning of the final day, Keisse and Terpstra made ​​their intentions clear. They won the Team Elimination and closed the gap to the previous leaders de Buyst and De Ketele. With a win in the first points race, de Buyst made up for the loss byt in the second points race, disaster struck for the Belgians. Due to illness, De Ketele had to abandon In the final madison, the Danish pair tried to put Keisse and Terpstra under pressure but it was not enough to prevent the Etixx-QuickStep riders from taking their third victory in a row. Indeed. Keisse and Terpstra showed their class by a double attack that allowed them to take two laps on their rivals.

Jesper Asselman and Wesley Kreder took the final victory in the derny competition.. With pacer Peter Bäuerlein, Asselman won the the final with a great display of power. Today the seven best pairs in the competition rode for the victory. The three winners were all rewarded with a beautiful watch from Tissot.

On the final day, the Greek sprinters took the victory in the GPN / Provato Sprint Cup. The Dutch team of Matthijs Büchli, Nils Van 't Hoenderdaal and Sam Ligtlee were unable to make a erase their 3-point deficit. The final score was 82-80. Hugo Haak, Jeffrey Hoogland and Camiel Lok represented the Netherlands during the first three days.

In the Tacx Talent Cup, Hans Pirius and Sebastian Wotschke were superior. The Germans won the race in convincing fashion and earned themselves a spot in the elite feild for the 34th Six Days of Rotterdam.

The 33rd edition of the race had been given a facelift. The organizers had not only changed due to the appointment of Michael Zijlaard and Peter Schep, organizer Ahoy Rotterdam had also given new mometum to the race.

"The sporting aspect is always our priority," Jolanda Jansen, Director of Ahoy, said. "We asked Michael and Peter to take care of that and to find improvements. Furthermore, we have been looking for the ultimate mix of entertainment. Cycling fans should feel at home at a six-day event; the fans and the business partners. We believe in the enormous potential of track cycling and our event and think that we have taken ​​another great step."

Next year the Six Days of Rotterdam will take place one week later. The 34th edition of the event will be held from the 7th to the the 12h of January, 2016 .

Final result:

1. Iljo Keisse/Niki Terpstra 281 pts
2. Michael Mørkøv/Alex Rasmussen 273 pts +3 laps
3. David Muntaner/Albert Torres 225 pts +3 laps
4. Michel Kreder/Raymond Kreder 138 pts +5 laps
5. Leif Lampater/Nico Hesslich 116 pts +11 laps
6. Wim Stroetinga/Barry Markus 61 pts +11 laps
7. Thomas Boudat/Vivien Brisse 162 pts +12 laps
8. Wesley Kreder/Jesper Asselman 70 pts +16 laps
9. Andreas Müller/Andreas Graf 16 pts +17 laps
10. Didier Caspers/Melvin van Zijl 34 pts +18 laps