Six Days of Groningen

Six Days of Groningen

Race details
Region	Groningen, Netherlands
Local name(s)	Groninger zesdaagse (in Dutch)
Discipline	Track
Type	Six-day racing
History
First edition	1970 (1970)
Editions	4
Final edition	1979
First winner	Jan Janssen (NED)  Peter Post (NED)
Most wins	Klaus Bugdahl (FRG)  Dieter Kemper (FRG) (2 wins)
Final winner	Wilfried Peffgen (FRG)  René Pijnen (NED)

The Six Days of Groningen was a short-lived six-day track cycling race held annually in Groningen, Netherlands.^[1]

It was contested in the Martinihal Groningen from 1970 to 1972. After 2 successful editions, the public interest for the 1972 Six Days became so poor that the financial balance was negative.

In 1979, the race was organized again as part of an event Topsport' 79 (which also included basketball and athletics), but once more the public interest was minimal. It turned out to be the final edition.^[2]

Winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1970	Jan Janssen Peter Post	Klaus Bugdahl Dieter Kemper	Graeme Gilmore Sigi Renz
1971	Klaus Bugdahl Dieter Kemper	Fritz Pfenninger Peter Post	Leo Duyndam René Pijnen
1972	Klaus Bugdahl Dieter Kemper	Graeme Gilmore Theo Verschueren	René Pijnen Norbert Seeuws
1973-1978	No editions
1979	Wilfried Peffgen René Pijnen	Albert Fritz Patrick Sercu	Roman Hermann Horst Schütz

External links

References

1. "Six-days Groningen". FirstCycling.com. 2022.
2. "6 jours de Groningue / Groningen (Pays-Bas)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 31 December 2021.