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January 31, 2025
Sixdays Weekend in Berlin 2025 🇩🇪 – DAY 1 – Berlin Velodrome, Germany
The Original Sixdays Weekend in Berlin is about to start: best of endurance,
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January 31, 2025
Sixdays Weekend in Berlin 2025 🇩🇪 – DAY 1 – Berlin Velodrome, Germany
The Original Sixdays Weekend in Berlin is about to start: best of endurance, sprinters as well as the famous stayers promise a weekend of top-class track cycling, non-stop party and good times. Like Sixdays used to be.
The local heroes Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt will be starting the decisive evening on Saturday at the SIXDAYS Weekend in the Berlin Velodrome from second place. After a very good start, the two-time world champions, three-time European champions and two-time Berlin winners had to give up the lead to the Italians Elia Viviani / Michele Scartezzini after the final big chase. The Dutch Yoeri Havik / Philip Heijnen are also in the so-called zero round. Viviani / Scartezzini lead with 82 points ahead of Kluge / Reinhardt (77) and Havik / Heijnen (68). All other teams are already one lap behind.
Berlin. At 6:55 p.m. Dr. Wolfgang Thierse (former President of the Bundestag) and Valts Miltovics (Managing Director Sixdays Weekend) together with Oliver Bähr (Marketing Communications Manager Knalle Popcornditorei) fired the starting signal for the 112th Berlin Six-Day Race, which will again be held as the SIXDAYS Weekend this year. 6,500 spectators provided an atmospheric backdrop on the first day in the Berlin Velodrome, and on Saturday the organizers are expecting a sold-out hall on Landsberger Allee. A few remaining tickets are still available at the box office.
At their home race, Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt initially set the pace and, after the first points race, took the lead in the field of twelve teams. “Our plan was to go into the race aggressively from the start,” said Reinhardt, who, together with partner Kluge, triumphed twice at the SIXDAYS Berlin in 2019 and 2023. “It’s worked wonderfully so far,” Reinhardt summed up after winning the first Kleine Jagd (80 laps). The 34-year-old pushed aside thoughts of his farewell on Saturday, when Reinhardt ends his career at the SIXDAYS Berlin in the Berlin Velodrome after more than ten years in the national team and, among other things, two world championship and three European championship titles in the Madison (with Kluge): “So far I’ve been completely in racing mode,” said Reinhardt.
In the 500-meter Madison Time Trial, the Italians Elia Viviani and Michele Scartezzini made their first mark, winning in 26.367 seconds. Viviani is one of the world’s best sprinters, with victories in the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia and an Olympic victory on the track in 2016. In the final big chase (120 laps), Viviani/Scartezzini confirmed their top form and took the win and 15 points after a brilliant final sprint to the finish line. Second and third places went to Yoeri Havik/Philip Heijnen (both Netherlands) and Tobias Müller/Matteo Donega (Hagen/Italy). Kluge/Reinhardt came in fourth here and lost their lead in the overall ranking. “The Italians were of course to be reckoned with. But we are doing well and will go on the attack again on the final evening – a win with Theo in his farewell race remains the goal,” said Roger Kluge.
In the women’s sprint, everything comes down to a duel between the multiple world champions and Olympic medalists Lea Sophie Friedrich (55 points) and Emma Hinze (50 points). Friedrich was the strongest in the keirin and the 250-meter time trial (with a new track record of 13.239 seconds), while in the sprint, Hinze was just ahead in the direct duel on the finish line. Before the final evening, Friedrich, for whom Berlin is a stopover on the way to the European Championships in mid-February in Heusden/Zolder (Belgium), leads with 55 points ahead of Hinze (50 points), followed by Pauline Grabosch and Clara Schneider (all Cottbus/both 32 points) on equal points. Friedrich won the SIXDAYS Berlin in 2023, and in 2020 the overall victory went to Emma Hinze.
In the men’s sprint, there is a three-way battle for the overall victory. After three of six competitions, the Cottbus Olympic participant Maximilian Dörnbach (47 points) is in the lead, having started the evening with a victory in the time trial. Second place went to Olympic fourth-place finisher Mateusz Rudyk from Poland (43 points), who won the final sprint. Robert Förstemann from Berlin also still has a chance and follows in third place (40). Even at the age of 38, the “old master” showed his full class in his Keirin victory.
Events :
6:40 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – Keirin (sprinters)
6:48 p.m. OPENING – starting signal by Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, former President of the Bundestag (1998-2005)
7:03 p.m. Points race (men’s endurance)
7:21 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – 250 meter time trial (men’s sprint)
7:39 p.m. Madison/ small hunt (men’s endurance)
8:02 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – 250 meter time trial (women’s sprinters)
8:28 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
8:51 p.m. i2030 Madison 500 meter time trial (men’s endurance)
9:18 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup Sprint Keirin (men’s sprint)
9:26 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
9:49 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup (women’s sprinters)
10:02 p.m. Team elimination race (men’s endurance)
10:20 p.m. Halftime show with the Party Shakers
10:50 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup Sprint
11:04 p.m. Madison/ large Hunt (men’s endurance)
11:45 p.m. END
 and Havik / Heijnen (68). All other teams are already one lap behind.
Berlin. At 6:55 p.m. Dr. Wolfgang Thierse (former President of the Bundestag) and Valts Miltovics (Managing Director Sixdays Weekend) together with Oliver Bähr (Marketing Communications Manager Knalle Popcornditorei) fired the starting signal for the 112th Berlin Six-Day Race, which will again be held as the SIXDAYS Weekend this year. 6,500 spectators provided an atmospheric backdrop on the first day in the Berlin Velodrome, and on Saturday the organizers are expecting a sold-out hall on Landsberger Allee. A few remaining tickets are still available at the box office.
At their home race, Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt initially set the pace and, after the first points race, took the lead in the field of twelve teams. “Our plan was to go into the race aggressively from the start,” said Reinhardt, who, together with partner Kluge, triumphed twice at the SIXDAYS Berlin in 2019 and 2023. “It’s worked wonderfully so far,” Reinhardt summed up after winning the first Kleine Jagd (80 laps). The 34-year-old pushed aside thoughts of his farewell on Saturday, when Reinhardt ends his career at the SIXDAYS Berlin in the Berlin Velodrome after more than ten years in the national team and, among other things, two world championship and three European championship titles in the Madison (with Kluge): “So far I’ve been completely in racing mode,” said Reinhardt.
In the 500-meter Madison Time Trial, the Italians Elia Viviani and Michele Scartezzini made their first mark, winning in 26.367 seconds. Viviani is one of the world’s best sprinters, with victories in the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia and an Olympic victory on the track in 2016. In the final big chase (120 laps), Viviani/Scartezzini confirmed their top form and took the win and 15 points after a brilliant final sprint to the finish line. Second and third places went to Yoeri Havik/Philip Heijnen (both Netherlands) and Tobias Müller/Matteo Donega (Hagen/Italy). Kluge/Reinhardt came in fourth here and lost their lead in the overall ranking. “The Italians were of course to be reckoned with. But we are doing well and will go on the attack again on the final evening – a win with Theo in his farewell race remains the goal,” said Roger Kluge.
In the women’s sprint, everything comes down to a duel between the multiple world champions and Olympic medalists Lea Sophie Friedrich (55 points) and Emma Hinze (50 points). Friedrich was the strongest in the keirin and the 250-meter time trial (with a new track record of 13.239 seconds), while in the sprint, Hinze was just ahead in the direct duel on the finish line. Before the final evening, Friedrich, for whom Berlin is a stopover on the way to the European Championships in mid-February in Heusden/Zolder (Belgium), leads with 55 points ahead of Hinze (50 points), followed by Pauline Grabosch and Clara Schneider (all Cottbus/both 32 points) on equal points. Friedrich won the SIXDAYS Berlin in 2023, and in 2020 the overall victory went to Emma Hinze.
In the men’s sprint, there is a three-way battle for the overall victory. After three of six competitions, the Cottbus Olympic participant Maximilian Dörnbach (47 points) is in the lead, having started the evening with a victory in the time trial. Second place went to Olympic fourth-place finisher Mateusz Rudyk from Poland (43 points), who won the final sprint. Robert Förstemann from Berlin also still has a chance and follows in third place (40). Even at the age of 38, the “old master” showed his full class in his Keirin victory.
<strong>Events : </strong>
6:40 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – Keirin (sprinters)
6:48 p.m. OPENING – starting signal by Dr. Wolfgang Thierse, former President of the Bundestag (1998-2005)
7:03 p.m. Points race (men’s endurance)
7:21 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – 250 meter time trial (men’s sprint)
7:39 p.m. Madison/ small hunt (men’s endurance)
8:02 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – 250 meter time trial (women’s sprinters)
8:28 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
8:51 p.m. i2030 Madison 500 meter time trial (men’s endurance)
9:18 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup Sprint Keirin (men’s sprint)
9:26 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
9:49 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup (women’s sprinters)
10:02 p.m. Team elimination race (men’s endurance)
10:20 p.m. Halftime show with the Party Shakers
10:50 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup Sprint
11:04 p.m. Madison/ large Hunt (men’s endurance)
11:45 p.m. END)
