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February 1, 2025
Sixdays Weekend in Berlin 2025 🇩🇪 – DAY 2 – Berlin Velodrome, Germany
The Original Sixdays Weekend in Berlin is about to start: best of endurance,
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February 1, 2025
Sixdays Weekend in Berlin 2025 🇩🇪 – DAY 2 – 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.
Local heroes Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt won the SIXDAYS Weekend 2025 on Saturday evening in the Berlin Velodrome, which was sold out with 8,000 spectators. The two-time Berlin winners prevailed in a highly dramatic final with 176 points ahead of the Dutch Yoeri Havik/Philip Heijnen (167) and the Italians Elia Viviani/Michelle Scartezzini (163), giving Reinhardt a fitting farewell. Reinhardt, two-time world champion and three-time European champion, ended his successful career on Saturday evening at the age of 34.
Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt crossed the finish line hand in hand, cheering, Reinhardt clenched his fist again and again and triumphantly pushed his FES bike towards the roof of the hall: With a fantastic energy performance in the last 20 laps, Kluge/Reinhardt secured their third overall victory in the Berlin Six-Day Race after 2019 and 2023. “I’m glad we did it again. That was unique. We were riding a wave of euphoria from the fans – that was such a boost. Theo will definitely not forget this evening,” said Kluge happily after crossing the finish line. Reinhardt also praised the euphoric audience, which provided many goosebump moments. “It was insane. I hope it continues like this here for the next few years. It was a great atmosphere – you only get that in Berlin,” said Reinhardt happily.
The local heroes Kluge and Reinhardt (77) went into the decisive evening five points behind the leaders Elia Viviani and Michelle Scartezzini from Italy (82 points). The Dutchmen Yoeri Havik/Philip Heijnen (68) also had a chance of winning the overall victory in the field of twelve teams. After the points race and the first small chase (80 laps), Kluge/Reinhardt’s deficit even increased slightly. After the first part of the Derny race, however, Kluge/Reinhardt were able to catch up with the clear lap after Reinhardt’s victory. In the final big chase over 120 laps, the showdown between the three top teams took place, with Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt coming out on top.
The emotional highlight of the evening came about an hour earlier, when Theo Reinhardt was ceremoniously bid farewell with a standing ovation from the audience. The 34-year-old ended his successful career at the SIXDAYS Weekend and will now work as a trainer for German Cycling. Even before Reinhardt went on his lap of honor with his son Pepe and rode through the guard of honor of his colleagues into the arms of his wife Jane, the Berliner was overcome by emotion. “You can’t buy a farewell like that. It’s amazing. Thank you Berlin!” said Reinhardt through tears. Valts Miltovics, Managing Director of the organizer Madison Sports GmbH, presented Reinhardt with a commemorative plaque made of original wood from the velodrome, whose track was renovated in 2017. “We will miss you and wish you all the best,” it read.
In the women’s sprint, Lea Sophie Friedrich from Cottbus won by a whisker. The eight-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist in Paris repeated her victory from the previous year. In the decisive final sprint of the evening, Friedrich beat Emma Hinze from Cottbus, who had won the keirin at the start of the evening and thus brought excitement to the competition. Friedrich won with 101 points ahead of Hinze (100) and five-time world champion Pauline Grabosch (68). In the time trial, Friedrich also set another track record with 13.154 seconds. “The form is already good. That was a welcome assessment of the situation. The audience was great again,” said Friedrich, giving her competitors a champagne shower. Lea Sophie Friedrich will be competing in the European Championships in Heusden/Zolder (Belgium) from February 12th.
In the men’s sprint, last year’s winner Mateusz Rudyk from Poland also won. The fifth-place finisher at the Paris 2024 Olympics won with 95 points, ahead of Maximilian Dörnbach (87) from Cottbus and Robert Förstemann (80) from Berlin. In the supporting program, Förstemann, who has already won the sprint tournament in Berlin four times, set a new German record in the 500-meter time trial (flying start) together with his visually impaired partner Thomas Ulbricht. The duo, who won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, completed the two laps in 25.970 seconds. “The atmosphere was great – Paris can learn a thing or two from that,” said the Berlin resident enthusiastically.
Events :
6:40 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – Keirin (women’s sprinters)
6:48 p.m. OPENING – starting shot by Theo Reinhardt
6:58 p.m. Points race (men’s endurance)
7:16 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – 250 meter time trial (men’s sprint)
7:34 p.m. Madison/ small hunt (men’s endurance)
7:57 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – 250 meter time trial (women’s sprinters)
8:23 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
8:46 p.m. i2030 Madison 500 meter time trial (men’s endurance)
9:13 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – Keirin (men’s sprint)
9:21 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
9:44 p.m. Team elimination race (men’s endurance)
10:02 p.m. Halftime show with these guys
10:32 p.m. Farewell: Theos Reinhardt’s last lap
10:35 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup Final (Women’s Sprinters)
10:48 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – Sprint Final (Men’s Sprint)
11:02 p.m. Madison/ big hunt (Men’s Endurance)
11:42 p.m. Overall award ceremony
11:45 p.m. END
 and the Italians Elia Viviani/Michelle Scartezzini (163), giving Reinhardt a fitting farewell. Reinhardt, two-time world champion and three-time European champion, ended his successful career on Saturday evening at the age of 34.
Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt crossed the finish line hand in hand, cheering, Reinhardt clenched his fist again and again and triumphantly pushed his FES bike towards the roof of the hall: With a fantastic energy performance in the last 20 laps, Kluge/Reinhardt secured their third overall victory in the Berlin Six-Day Race after 2019 and 2023. “I’m glad we did it again. That was unique. We were riding a wave of euphoria from the fans – that was such a boost. Theo will definitely not forget this evening,” said Kluge happily after crossing the finish line. Reinhardt also praised the euphoric audience, which provided many goosebump moments. “It was insane. I hope it continues like this here for the next few years. It was a great atmosphere – you only get that in Berlin,” said Reinhardt happily.
The local heroes Kluge and Reinhardt (77) went into the decisive evening five points behind the leaders Elia Viviani and Michelle Scartezzini from Italy (82 points). The Dutchmen Yoeri Havik/Philip Heijnen (68) also had a chance of winning the overall victory in the field of twelve teams. After the points race and the first small chase (80 laps), Kluge/Reinhardt’s deficit even increased slightly. After the first part of the Derny race, however, Kluge/Reinhardt were able to catch up with the clear lap after Reinhardt’s victory. In the final big chase over 120 laps, the showdown between the three top teams took place, with Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt coming out on top.
The emotional highlight of the evening came about an hour earlier, when Theo Reinhardt was ceremoniously bid farewell with a standing ovation from the audience. The 34-year-old ended his successful career at the SIXDAYS Weekend and will now work as a trainer for German Cycling. Even before Reinhardt went on his lap of honor with his son Pepe and rode through the guard of honor of his colleagues into the arms of his wife Jane, the Berliner was overcome by emotion. “You can’t buy a farewell like that. It’s amazing. Thank you Berlin!” said Reinhardt through tears. Valts Miltovics, Managing Director of the organizer Madison Sports GmbH, presented Reinhardt with a commemorative plaque made of original wood from the velodrome, whose track was renovated in 2017. “We will miss you and wish you all the best,” it read.
In the women’s sprint, Lea Sophie Friedrich from Cottbus won by a whisker. The eight-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist in Paris repeated her victory from the previous year. In the decisive final sprint of the evening, Friedrich beat Emma Hinze from Cottbus, who had won the keirin at the start of the evening and thus brought excitement to the competition. Friedrich won with 101 points ahead of Hinze (100) and five-time world champion Pauline Grabosch (68). In the time trial, Friedrich also set another track record with 13.154 seconds. “The form is already good. That was a welcome assessment of the situation. The audience was great again,” said Friedrich, giving her competitors a champagne shower. Lea Sophie Friedrich will be competing in the European Championships in Heusden/Zolder (Belgium) from February 12th.
In the men’s sprint, last year’s winner Mateusz Rudyk from Poland also won. The fifth-place finisher at the Paris 2024 Olympics won with 95 points, ahead of Maximilian Dörnbach (87) from Cottbus and Robert Förstemann (80) from Berlin. In the supporting program, Förstemann, who has already won the sprint tournament in Berlin four times, set a new German record in the 500-meter time trial (flying start) together with his visually impaired partner Thomas Ulbricht. The duo, who won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, completed the two laps in 25.970 seconds. “The atmosphere was great – Paris can learn a thing or two from that,” said the Berlin resident enthusiastically.
<strong>Events : </strong>
6:40 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – Keirin (women’s sprinters)
6:48 p.m. OPENING – starting shot by Theo Reinhardt
6:58 p.m. Points race (men’s endurance)
7:16 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – 250 meter time trial (men’s sprint)
7:34 p.m. Madison/ small hunt (men’s endurance)
7:57 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup – 250 meter time trial (women’s sprinters)
8:23 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
8:46 p.m. i2030 Madison 500 meter time trial (men’s endurance)
9:13 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – Keirin (men’s sprint)
9:21 p.m. Derny (men’s endurance)
9:44 p.m. Team elimination race (men’s endurance)
10:02 p.m. Halftime show with these guys
10:32 p.m. Farewell: Theos Reinhardt’s last lap
10:35 p.m. Bundeswehr Sprint Cup Final (Women’s Sprinters)
10:48 p.m. Wolfram Champions Cup – Sprint Final (Men’s Sprint)
11:02 p.m. Madison/ big hunt (Men’s Endurance)
11:42 p.m. Overall award ceremony
11:45 p.m. END)
