Slippens - Stam and McGrory - Gilmore, equal on points, lead with 4 pairs on the Zero Lap
Patrick Sercu, the organizer in Munich had to make some last minute changes to the original Pairs.
Guido Fulst, still suffering from his injuries in the Dortmund Six Day was unable to start, and
Frank Vandenbroucke telephoned at the last minute to say that he would not be on the start line.
He gave no reason, but His Mr. Bookmaker team manager, Hilaire Van der Schueren, told VRT
(Flemish Television) that Frank had personal problems and had not trained sufficiently to start.
Sportdirector Sigi Renz, the Sports Director had to do some fast shuffling and the revamped start
list saw Marvulli - Aeschbach split up with Marvulli partnering Bartko and Leif Lampater pairing
with Alexander Aeschbach. Luke Roberts was paired up with up with Jimmi Madsen and a new Duo of
Belgians Iljo Keisse and Wouter van Mechelen was formed.
The four leading Pairs quickly established their dominance and by half way through the nights racing
Slippens - Stam and McGrory - Gilmore topped the scoreboard equal on points with Risi - Betschart and
Kappes - Beikirch in the same lap.
Standings after night One :
1 Robert Slippens - Danny Stam (NED), 50 Points
2 Scott McGrory (AUS) - Matthew Gilmore (BEL), 50 Points
3 Bruno Risi - Kurt Betschart (SWI), 39 Points
4 Andreas Kappes - Andreas Beikirch (GER), 33 Points
Down 1 lap:
5 Lars Teutenberg - Christian Lademann (GER), 23 Points
Down 2 laps:
6 Robert Bartko (GER) - Franco Marvulli (SWI), 23 Points
Down 3 laps:
7 Marco Villa (ITA) - Thorsten Rund (GER), 18 Points
8 Luke Roberts (AUS) - Jimmi Madsen (DEN), 18 Points
Down 4 laps:
9 Franz Stocher (AUT) - Christian Grasmann (GER), 7 Points
Down 5 laps:
10 Leif Lampater (GER) - Alexander Aeschbach (SWI), 14 Points
11 Stefan Löffler - Andreas Müller (GER), 10 Points
12 Gerd Dörich - Frank Kowatschitsch (GER), 6 Points
Down 6 laps:
13 Wouter van Mechelen - Iljo Keisse (BEL), 20 Points
14 Mikhail Ignatiev - Alexei Markov (RUS), 6 Points
15 Ronny Lauke - Erik Weisspfennig (GER), 0 Points
(Source: SixDay Staff)
Men Only
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Here's Italy's Gilberto Simoni (Source : Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy : Cyclisme féminin (French))
Ladies Only
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Here's Two for One with Holland's Chantal & Ghita Beltman Here's Ghita at the start of the Omloop van Sneek last April:(Source : Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy : Rudie Ottens)
Happy Birthday - Men
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Peter Post (1933) Holland.
1st 1964 Paris-Roubaix Classic (2nd Benoni Beheyt; 3rd Yvo Molenaers - Both Belgians)
4th 1965 World Championship Road Race (1st Tom Simpson, Great Britain; 2nd Rudi Altig, Germany
3rd Roger Swerts, Belgium)
He was team manager of the legendary Nederlands Panasonic squad on the 1980's.
(Source: Six Day staff)
Happy Birthday - Women
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Sorry, none today (Source: Six Day staff)
Today's Menu
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Friday, November 12, 2004 Main Events:
MEN:
Stage Races :
Doble Copacabana-GP Fides - Bolivia - Cat. 2.5 Stage 4
Single Day races : None
Six Day and Other Track Races :
Munich Six Day - Night Two
WOMEN :
Stage Races : None
Single Day races : None
(Source: UCI)
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