6-days of Dortmund, 30^th October to 4^th November 2003
Victory No. 32 for Risi – Betschart!

Tuesday night the Swiss team Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart won their 32^nd 6-days together and their 5 ^th victory in Dortmunds Westfalenhalle, the same place where they won – 11 years ago – their first pro 6-days. "The kings of the 6-days" won the race 20 points ahead of Germans Kappes – Beikirch. Local hero Rolf Aldag with Australian Scott McGrory had to be contend with 3^rd place, one lap behind. The winners from Amsterdam, Slippens – Stam, were dropped in the finale and ended three laps down.
Bruno Risi showed his excellent form already in the final of the "Derny Welt-Pokal", which he won with Rolf Aldag 2^nd and Andreas Beikirch 3^rd (1 lap down).

Dortmund 6-days final result:
1 Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SUI), 369 p., 2 Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER), 349 p., at 1 lap: 3 Rolf Aldag (GER) – Scott McGrory (AUS), 370 p., at 3 laps: 4 Robert Slippens – Danny Stam (NED), 218 p., at 7 laps: 5 Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN), 102 p., at 11 laps: 6 Matthew Gilmore (BEL) – Marty Nothstein (USA), 207 p., at 15 laps: 7 Franz Stocher (AUT) – Lars Teutenberg (GER), 109 p., at 16 laps: 8 Guido Fulst – Andreas Müller (GER), 135 p., at 18 laps: 9 Ronny Lauke – Thorsten Rund (GER), 119 p., at 23 laps: 10 Jens Lehmann – Sebastian Siedler (GER), 217 p., at 24 laps: 11 Bradley Wiggins – Robert Hayles (GBR), 71 p., at 27 laps: 12 Gerd Dörich – Stefan Löffler (GER), 130 p., at 35 laps: 13 Erik Weispfennig – Jan Bratkowski (GER), 82 p. Ab.: Frank Kowatschitsch – Daniel Palicki (GER).

Peter Jörg best stayer
Even when Carsten Podlesch won the 11^th and last leg of the "Karstadt Steher-Championat", it was Swiss champion Peter Jörg who won the overall and thus made the final evening in Dortmund a real "Swiss evening". It was the first victory for Jörg in Dortmund, the latest Helvetic win in this race was from 1998 (Hanskurt Brand).  
  1 Peter Jörg (SUI)/René Aebi (SUI), 50 p., 2 Carsten Podlesch (GER)/Bruno Walrave (NED), 49 p., 3 Stefan Klare (GER)/Christian Dippel (GER), 46 p., 4 Jan Richter (GER)/Gerd Gessler (GER), 36 p., 5 Francis de Jager (NED)/Dieter Durst (GER), 30 p., 6 Mario Vonhof (GER)/Helmut Baur (GER), 20 p.

6-days of Dortmund, 30^th October to 4^th November 2003
European Champions in front

The European Champions from Germany and also last years winners in Dortmund, 2 x Andy Kappes and Beikrich, are leading the 6-days of Dortmund before to nights finale in the famous Westfalenhallen. They are in the same lap as Risi – Betschart and only five points separates them. One lap behind is the team Aldag – McGrory with the highest point-score, and Stam – Slippens, far behind on points. Who wins? Our guess: Risi – Betschart or Aldag – McGrory.

Overall Dortmund 6-days after 5^th day:
1 Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER), 282 p., 2 Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SUI), 277 p., at 1 lap: 3 Rolf Aldag (GER) – Scott McGrory (AUS), 296 p., 4 Robert Slippens – Danny Stam (NED), 201 p., at 6 laps: 5 Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN), 95 p., at 8 laps: 6 Matthew Gilmore (BEL) – Marty Nothstein (USA), 170 p., at 11 laps: 7 Guido Fulst – Andreas Müller (GER), 114 p., at 12 laps: 8 Franz Stocher (AUT) – Lars Teutenberg (GER), 73 p., at 14 laps: 9 Ronny Lauke – Thorsten Rund (GER), 100 p., at 18 laps: 10 Bradley Wiggins – Robert Hayles (GBR), 53 p., at 19 laps: 11 Jens Lehmann – Sebastian Siedler (GER), 179 p., at 22 laps: 12 Gerd Dörich – Stefan Löffler (GER), 113 p., at 30 laps: 13 Erik Weispfennig – Jan Bratkowski (GER), 62 p. Ab.: Frank Kowatschitsch – Daniel Palicki (GER).

Jörg before the finale
Before the finale evening of the stayers Karstadt Championat the Swiss champion Peter Jörg is again in leading position. But at victory for Carsten Podlesch or perhaps Stefan Klare are still within possibilities.
  1 Peter Jörg (SUI)/René Aebi (SUI), 45 p., 2 Carsten Podlesch (GER)/Bruno Walrave (NED), 43 p., 3 Stefan Klare (GER)/Christian Dippel (GER), 42 p., 4 Jan Richter (GER)/Gerd Gessler (GER), 33 p., 5 Francis de Jager (NED)/Dieter Durst (GER), 28 p., 6 Mario Vonhof (GER)/Helmut Baur (GER), 19 p.

Three teams on zero

No big changes in the overall in Dortmund after the Sunday program. Kappes – Beikirch managed to go on the same lap as Aldag – McGrory and Risi – Betschart, due to a bonuslap for passing 200 points. But look at Risi – Betschart, they are only 6 points away from a bonuslap which will again bring them alone in front.

Overall Dortmund 6-days after 4th day:
1 Rolf Aldag (GER) – Scott McGrory (AUS), 244 p., 2 Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER), 216 p., 3 Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SUI), 194 p., at 1 lap: 4 Robert Slippens – Danny Stam (NED), 146 p., at 5 laps: 5 Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN), 55 p., at 6 laps: 6 Matthew Gilmore (BEL) – Marty Nothstein (USA), 135 p., at 8 laps: 7 Guido Fulst – Andreas Müller (GER), 94 p., 8 Franz Stocher (AUT) – Lars Teutenberg (GER), 66 p., at 11 laps: 9 Ronny Lauke – Thorsten Rund (GER), 81 p., at 12 laps: 10 Bradley Wiggins – Robert Hayles (GBR), 44 p., at 14 laps: 11 Jens Lehmann – Sebastian Siedler (GER), 144 p., at 17 laps: 12 Gerd Dörich – Stefan Löffler (GER), 84 p., at 22 laps: 13 Erik Weispfennig – Jan Bratkowski (GER), 57 p. Ab.: Frank Kowatschitsch – Daniel Palicki (GER).

Klare still in front
Stefan Klare is the best stayer in Dortmund so far. He won the first of Sundays two stages and ended 3 ^rd in the second. And that was just enough to hold the overall lead with one point ahead of Carsten Podlesch, the winner of the second race.

  1 Stefan Klare (GER)/Christian Dippel (GER), 36 p., 2 Carsten Podlesch (GER)/Bruno Walrave (NED), 35 p., 3 Peter Jörg (SUI)/René Aebi (SUI), 35 p., 4 Francis de Jager (NED)/Dieter Durst (GER), 23 p., 5 Jan Richter (GER)/Gerd Gessler (GER), 23 p., 6 Mario Vonhof (GER)/Helmut Baur (GER), 16 p.

Aldag – McGrory challenges Risi - Betschart

The Saturday night in Dortmund brought a new team on top of the overall: Rolf Aldag and Scott McGrory are now leading with and overwhelming total of 207 points, the highest point-score so far and enough to give them another bonus-lap, bringing them equal with Risi – Betschart. Kappes – Beikirch and Slippens – Stam are respectfully one lap behind.
From the results you can see, that new teams has been build: Gilmore is now with Wiggins and Fulst with Kowatschitsch. Unfortunately we are not able to inform you, what has happened to Palicki (partner of Kowatschitsch), Hayles (Wiggins), Müller (Fulst) and Nothstein (Gilmore).

Overall Dortmund 6-days after 3^rd day:
1 Rolf Aldag (GER) – Scott McGrory (AUS), 210 p., 2 Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SUI), 166 p., at 1 lap: 3 Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER), 183 p., 4 Robert Slippens – Danny Stam (NED), 132 p., at 4 laps: 5 Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN), 55 p., at 5 laps: 6 Matthew Gilmore (BEL) – Bradley Wiggins (GBR), 106 p., at 7 laps: 7 Guido Fulst – Frank Kowatschitsch (GER), 91 p., 8 Franz Stocher (AUT) – Lars Teutenberg (GER), 55 p., at 10 laps: 9 Ronny Lauke – Thorsten Rund (GER), 50 p., at 11 laps: (10 Bradley Wiggins – Robert Hayles (GBR), 42 p.), at 13 laps: 11 Jens Lehmann – Sebastian Siedler (GER), 113 p., at 16 laps: 12 Gerd Dörich – Stefan Löffler (GER), 46 p., at 21 laps: 13 Erik Weispfennig – Jan Bratkowski (GER), 43 p.

The day of Stefan Klare!
The 3^rd day of the stayers cup in Dortmund was the day of the German Champion Stefan Klare. He won both two legs of the evening and he is now leading the overall:  
  1 Stefan Klare (GER)/Christian Dippel (GER), 26 p., 2 Carsten Podlesch (GER)/Bruno Walrave (NED), 25 p., 3 Peter Jörg (SUI)/René Aebi (SUI), 25 p., 4 Francis de Jager (NED)/Dieter Durst (GER), 18 p., 5 Jan Richter (GER)/Gerd Gessler (GER), 18 p., 6 Mario Vonhof (GER)/Helmut Baur (GER), 14 p.

Risi – Betschart masters in Dortmund

Like in Grenoble it was also in Dortmund a Swiss team, who dominated the second evening of the 6-days. The end of the day (or night) saw Risi – Betschart alone in the lead, one lap ahead of Aldag – McGrory, Kappes – Beikirch and Stam Slippens. But note that the Dutch team is very close the first 100 points and the bonus-lap, which will bring the equal with the team from Switzerland. Danish team Madsen – Sandstød is two laps down, and Fulst – Müller are on four laps.

Overall Dortmund 6-days after 2^nd day:
1 Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SUI), 106 p., at 1 lap: 2 Rolf Aldag (GER) – Scott McGrory (AUS), 127 p., 3 Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER), 100 p., 4 Robert Slippens – Danny Stam (NED), 91 p., at 3 laps: 5 Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN), 41 p., at 4 laps: 6 Guido Fulst – Andreas Müller (GER), 60 p., 7 Franz Stocher (AUT) – Lars Teutenberg (GER), 39 p., at 5 laps: 8 Matthew Gilmore (BEL) – Marty Nothstein (USA), 69 p., at 7 laps: 9 Ronny Lauke – Thorsten Rund (GER), 29 p., at 9 laps: 10 Jens Lehmann – Sebastian Siedler (GER), 66 p., at 10 laps: 11 Gerd Dörich – Stefan Löffler (GER), 38 p., 12 Bradley Wiggins – Robert Hayles (GBR), 13 p., at 14 laps: 13 Erik Weispfennig – Jan Bratkowski (GER), 22 p.

Jörg still in front
Carsten Podlesch and Jan Richter were the winners of Friday evenings two legs of the stayers Cup. In the overall Peter Jörg holds the lead.
  1 Peter Jörg (SUI)/René Aebi (SUI), 18 p., 2 Carsten Podlesch (GER)/Bruno Walrave (NED), 16 p., 3 Jan Richter (GER)/Gerd Gessler (GER), 14 p., 4 Stefan Klare (GER)/Christian Dippel (GER), 14 p., 5 Mario Vonhof (GER)/Helmut Baur (GER), 12 p., 6 Francis de Jager (NED)/Dieter Durst (GER), 10 p.

Hard start in Dortmund

The two best teams from the 6-days of Amsterdam was also the strongest teams on the first evening of the 62^nd 6-days of Dortmund in the famous Westfalenhalle: Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart and Robert Slippens – Danny Stam. And it looks like is was a hard start. Risi – Betschart and Slippens – Stam ended up one lap ahead of Aldag – McGrory and Kappes – Beikirch, and teams like Gilmore – Nothstein and Madsen – Sandstød lost two laps already on the first evening. Not to speak about British team Wiggins – Hayles, relegated to five laps. Gilmore – Nothstein took a little bit of a revenge in the Brinkhoff’s No. 1 Supercup, 1.000 meter time-trial for teams. With 58,04 sec. they recorded the best time of the evening, beating Aldag – McGrory with more than a second (59,07). Still at bit to go to the track-record 56,92 sec. established by the same team during last years 6-days.

Overall Dortmund 6-days after 1^st day:
  1 Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SUI), 48 p., 2 Robert Slippens – Danny Stam (NED), 26 p., at 1 lap: 3 Rolf Aldag (GER) – Scott McGrory (AUS), 46 p., 4 Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER), 38 p., at 2 laps: 5 Guido Fulst – Andreas Müller (GER), 32 p., 6 Matthew Gilmore (BEL) – Marty Nothstein (USA), 22 p., 7 Franz Stocher (AUT) – Lars Teutenberg (GER), 17 p., 8 Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN), 8 p., at 3 laps: 9 Jens Lehmann – Sebastian Siedler (GER), 39 p., 10 Ronny Lauke – Thorsten Rund (GER), 18 p., at 4 laps: 11 Gerd Dörich – Stefan Löffler (GER), 21 p., at 5 laps: 12 Bradley Wiggins – Robert Hayles (GBR), 2 p., at 6 laps: 13 Erik Weispfennig – Jan Bratkowski (GER), 14 p., at 7 laps: 14 Frank Kowatscgitsch – Daniel Palicki (GER), 21 p.

Jörg in front
The two first legs of the "Karstadt Steher-Championat" both had winners from abroad. Peter Jörg from Switzerland won the 1^st and Francis de Jager from Holland the 2^nd. In the overall after two legs Peter Jörg is leading with 10 points:
  1 Peter Jörg (SUI)/René Aebi (SUI), 10 p., 2 Carsten Podlesch (GER)/Bruno Walrave (NED), 8 p., 3 Francis de Jager (NED)/Dieter Durst (GER), 7 p., 4 Jan Richter (GER)/Gerd Gessler (GER), 7 p., 5 Mario Vonhof (GER)/Helmut Baur (GER), 5 p., 6 Stefan Klare (GER)/Christian Dippel (GER), 5 p.

UIV Cup in Dortmund, 31^st October to 2^nd November 2003
Keisse – De Fauw Winners!

Once again the Belgium team Keisse – De Fauw showed who’s the best team in the UIV Madison U 23 Cup. They won the 3^rd and last stage in Dortmund and with two victories and one 2^nd place they won also the overall in Dortmund. Chmidt – Ponomarov and Smith Larsen – Berling ended 2^nd and 3^rd on the last stages, and also in the overall. The Cup continues in Munich.

UIV Cup in Dortmund, 3^rd stage (48,2 km in 60 Minutes):
  1 Iljo Keisse – Dimitri de Fauw (BEL), 23 p., 2 Alexei Chmidt – Konstantin Ponomarov (RUS), 19 p., 3 Michael Smith Larsen – Michael Berling (DEN), 8 p., 4 Sebastian Frey – Leif Lampater (GER), 7 p., 4 Ralph Zimmermann – Oliver Mattmann (SUI), 5 p., 6 Christian Grasmann – Thomas Höss (GER), 4 p., 7 Christian Ortkras – Marcel Rothstein (GER), 0 p., 8 Florian Piper – Leonardo Pappalardo (GER), 3 p., 9 Aurel Siegel – Felix Wolf (GER), 0 p., 10 Jan Eric Schwarzer – Timo Wecek (GER), 0 p., 11 Christian Herde – Markus Reich (GER), 0 p., at 3 laps: 12 Sebastian Debatin – Stephan Kirschner (GER), 0 p. Ab: Domenik Arnoldy – Daniel Proske (GER), 0 p.

Final overall after 3 stages:
  1 Iljo Keisse – Dimitro de Fauw (BEL), 38 p., 2 Alexei Chmidt – Konstantin Ponomarov (RUS), 35 p., 3 Michael Smith Larsen – Michael Berling (DEN), 35 p., 4 Ralph Zimmermann – Oliver Mattmann (SUI), 29 p., 5 Sebastian Frey – Leif Lampater (GER), 28 p., 6 Christian Grasmann – Thomas Höss (GER), 23 p., 7 Florian Piper – Leonardo Pappalardo (GER), 20 p., 8 Aurel Siegel – Felix Wolf (GER), 15 p., 9 Jan Eric Schwarzer – Timo Wecek (GER), 15 p., 10 Sebastian Ortkras – Marcel Rothstein (GER), 14 p., 11 Christian Herde – Markus Reich (GER), 12 p., 12 Sebastian Debatin – Stephan Kirschner (GER), 6 p.

UIV Cup in Dortmund, 31^st October to 2^nd November 2003
Danish Team took 2^nd stage

The 2^nd stage of UIV Madison Cup in Dortmund was won by the Danish team Michael Smith Larsenb – Michael Berling, who managed to lap the other top-teams. Keisse – De Fauw came in 2^nd and Chmidt – Ponomarov 3^rd, and that means that those three teams are very close in the overall before today’s 3^rd and final stage.

UIV Cup in Dortmund, 2^nd day (36,8 km in 45 Minutes):
  1 Michael Smith Larsen – Michael Berling (DEN), 2 p., at 1 lap: 2 Iljo Keisse – Dimitri de Fauw (BEL), 19 p., 3 Alexei Chmidt – Konstantin Ponomarov (RUS), 14 p., 4 Ralph Zimmermann – Oliver Mattmann (SUI), 10 p., 5 Sebastian Frey – Leif Lampater (GER), 8 p., 6 Christian Grasmann – Thomas Höss (GER), 2 p., 7 Aurel Siegel – Felix Wolf (GER), 0 p., 8 Florian Piper – Leonardo Pappalardo (GER), 3 p., at 2 laps: 9 Jan Eric Schwarzer – Timo Wecek (GER), 0 p., at 3 laps: 10 Christian Herde – Markus Reich (GER), 0 p.,11 Christian Ortkras – Marcel Rothstein (GER), 0 p., at 4 laps: 12 Sebastian Debatin – Stephan Kirschner (GER), 0 p., at 12 laps: 13 Domenik Arnoldy – Daniel Proske (GER), 0 p.

Overall after 2 days:
  1 Iljo Keisse – Dimitro de Fauw (BEL), 25 p., 2 Michael Smith Larsen – Michael Berling (DEN), 24 p., 3 Alexei Chmidt – Konstantin Ponomarov (RUS), 23 p., 4 Ralph Zimmermann – Oliver Mattmann (SUI), 20 p., 5 Sebastian Frey – Leif Lampater (GER), 18 p., 6 Christian Grausmann – Thomas Höss (GER), 15 p., 7 Florian Piper – Leonardo Pappalardo (GER), 14 p., 8 Jan Eric Schwarzer – Timo Wecek (GER), 11 p., 9 Aurel Siegel – Felix Wolf (GER), 10 p., 10 Christian Herde – Markus Reich (GER), 9 p., 11 Sebastian Ortkras – Marcel Rothstein (GER), 7 p., 12 Sebastian Debatin – Stephan Kirschner (GER), 4 p., 13 Domenik Arnoldy – Daniel Proske (GER), 2 p.

UIV Cup in Dortmund, 31^st October to 2^nd November 2003
Keisse – De Fauw wins 1^st stage in Dortmund

Belgium team Keisse – De Fauw continues in Dortmund as they started in Amsterdam! They won the 1^st stage of the UIV Madison Cup in Dortmund, and on the next ranks we also see some of the best teams from the race in Holland: Larsen – Berling from Denmark, Zimmermann – Mattmann from Switzerland and the German team Frey – Lampater. New players in the game are the Russian team with the very talented Alexei Chmidt together with Ponomarov. Only those teams plus one more German team, Piper – Pappalardo, managed to stay in the same lap as the Belgians.
The Cup continues Saturday and Sunday.

UIV Cup in Dortmund, 1^st day (36,4 km in 45 Minutes):
   1 Iljo Keisse – Dimitri de Fauw (BEL), 19 p., 2 Alexei Chmidt – Konstantin Ponomarov (RUS), 13 p., 3 Michael Smith Larsen – Michael Berling (DEN), 9 p., 4 Ralph Zimmermann – Oliver Mattmann (SUI), 8 p., 5 Sebastian Frey – Leif Lampater (GER), 3 p., 6 Florian Piper – Leonardo Pappalardo (GER), 3 p., at 2 laps: 7 Christian Grasmann – Thomas Höss (GER), 0 p., at 3 laps: 8 Jan Eric Schwarzer – Timo Wecek (GER), 0 p., at 4 laps: 9 Christian Herde – Markus Reich (GER), 0 p., 10 Aurel Siegel – Felix Wolf (GER), 0 p., at 6 laps: 11 Christian Ortkras – Marcel Rothstein (GER), 0 p., at 7 laps: 12 Sebastian Debatin – Stephan Kirschner (GER), 0 p., at 16 laps: 13 Domenik Arnoldy – Daniel Proske (GER), 0 p.

2^nd leg of UIV Cup in Dortmund

The UIV Madison Cup for riders Under 23 continues with the 2^nd leg in Dortmund Westfalenhalle. Like in Amsterdam it will be a 3-days race, starting Friday 31^st October and ending Sunday 2^nd November. 13 teams participates in Dortmund and among them four of the best teams from Amsterdam.

  1 Ralph Zimmermann – Oliver Mattmann (SUI)
  2 Christian Ortkras – Marcel Rothstein (GER)
  3 Aurel Siegel – Felix Wolf (GER)
  4 Michael Smith Larsen – Michael Berling (DEN)
  5 Florian Piper – Leonardo Pappalardo (GER)
  6 Christian Grasmann – Thomas Höss (GER)
  7 Christian Herde – Markus Reich (GER)
  8 Iljo Keisse – Dimitri de Fauw (BEL)
  9 Domenik Arnoldy – *Daniel Proske (GER)
10 Sebastian Frey – Leif Lampater (GER)
11 Alexei Chmidt – Konstantin Ponomarov (RUS)
12 Sebastian Debatin – Stephan Kirschner (GER)
13 *Jan Eric Schwarzer – Timo Wecek (GER)