Six Days of Münster

Six Days of Münster
	1973 Six Days of Münster race
Race details
Region	Münster, Germany
Local name(s)	Sechstagerennen von Münster (in German)
Discipline	Track
Type	Six-day racing
History
First edition	1950
Editions	34
Final edition	1988
First winner	Gustav Kilian (LUX) ; Jean Roth (SUI)
Most wins	Jean Roth (SUI) (5)
Final winner	Anthony Doyle (GBR); Danny Clark (AUS)

The Six Days of Münster was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Münster, Germany from 1950 to 1988.^[1]^[2] Gustav Kilian, who had become renowned for his successes at other six-day races, entered as favourite and ended up winning the 1950 race.^[3]^[4]

In 1987 and 1988, the organizers tried unsuccessfully to relaunch the Six Days.^[5]

Jean Roth won in five editions.^[6]

Winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1950	Gustav Kilian Jean Roth	Cor Bakker Henk Lakeman	Ludwig Hörmann Jean Schorn
1951 (1)	Ferdinando Terruzzi Severino Rigoni	Ludwig Hörmann Hans Hörmann	Rudi Mirke Jean Roth
1951 (2)	Ferdinando Terruzzi Severino Rigoni	Émile Carrara Guy Lapebie	Robert Naeye Ernest Thyssen
1952	Walter Bucher Jean Roth	Ferdinando Terruzzi Severino Rigoni	Reginald Arnold Alfred Strom
1953	Walter Bucher Jean Roth	Werner Holthöfer Hans Preiskeit	Waldemar Knocke Heinz Zoll
1954	Ludwig Hörmann Hans Preiskeit	Lucien Gillen Ferdinando Terruzzi	Walter Bucher Jean Roth
1955	Gerrit Peters Gerrit Schulte	Valentin Petry Walter Schurmann	Walter Bucher Jean Roth
1956	Manfred Donike Edi Gieseler	Dominique Forlini Georges Senfftleben	Valentin Petry Walter Schurmann
1957	Armin von Büren Jean Roth	Heinz Scholl Günther Ziegler	Herbert Weinrich Heinz Zoll
1958	Fritz Pfenninger Jean Roth	Valentin Petry Klaus Bugdahl	Even Klamer Knud Lynge
1959	Lucien Gillen Peter Post	Hans Junkermann Ferdinando Terruzzi	Fritz Pfenninger Mino De Rossi
1960	Hans Junkermann Fritz Pfenninger	Manfred Donike Rolf Roggendorf	Walter Bucher Oskar Plattner
1961	no edition
1962	Rudi Altig Hans Junkermann	Emile Severeyns Rik Van Steenbergen	Klaus Bugdahl Fritz Pfenninger
1963	Freddy Eugen Palle Lykke	Peter Post Fritz Pfenninger	Dieter Kemper Horst Oldenburg
1964	Dieter Kemper Horst Oldenburg	Klemens Grossimlinghaus Rolf Roggendorf	Freddy Eugen Palle Lykke
1965	Freddy Eugen Palle Lykke	Klaus Bugdahl Klaus May	Hans Junkermann Horst Oldenburg
1966	Dieter Kemper Horst Oldenburg	Klaus Bugdahl Tom Simpson	Klemens Grossimlinghaus Wilfried Boelke
1967	Klaus Bugdahl Patrick Sercu	Dieter Kemper Horst Oldenburg	Hans Junkermann Wolfgang Schulze
1968	Rudi Altig Klaus Bugdahl	Dieter Kemper Horst Oldenburg	Freddy Eugen Palle Lykke
1969	Wolfgang Schulze Horst Oldenburg	Wilfried Boelke Wilfried Peffgen	Freddy Eugen Albert Fritz
1970	Alain Van Lancker Klaus Bugdahl	Rudi Altig Albert Fritz	Wolfgang Schulze Wilfried Peffgen
1971	Dieter Kemper Klaus Bugdahl	Wolfgang Schulze Wilfried Peffgen	Alain Van Lancker Jürgen Tschan
1972	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz	Wolfgang Schulze Jürgen Tschan	Leo Duyndam René Pijnen
1973	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz	Dieter Kemper Klaus Bugdahl	Günther Haritz Udo Hempel
1974	Wolfgang Schulze Jürgen Tschan	Dieter Kemper Klaus Bugdahl	Günther Haritz Udo Hempel
1975	Günther Haritz René Pijnen	Wolfgang Schulze Jürgen Tschan	Dieter Kemper Udo Hempel
1976	Günther Haritz René Pijnen	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz	Wolfgang Schulze Jürgen Tschan
1977	Donald Allan Danny Clark	Günther Haritz René Pijnen	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz
1978	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz	Roman Hermann Horst Schütz	Günther Schumacher Udo Hempel
1979	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz	Günther Schumacher Udo Hempel	Gert Frank René Savary
1980	Donald Allan Danny Clark	Roman Hermann Horst Schütz	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz
1981	Gert Frank René Pijnen	Roman Hermann Horst Schütz	Wilfried Peffgen Albert Fritz
1982-1986	no edition
1987	Roman Hermann Josef Kristen	Dietrich Thurau Danny Clark	Dieter Giebken René Pijnen
1988	Anthony Doyle Danny Clark	Volker Diehl Roland Günther	Roman Hermann Dietrich Thurau

References

^ "6 jours de Münster (Allemagne)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ wn. "Grenzerfahrungen bei den Sechstagerennen". www.wn.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-21.
^ "Ka-ke-ko-ku-Kilian". Der Spiegel (in German). 1950-03-22. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
^ "So was zehrt". Der Spiegel (in German). 1951-01-09. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
^ "Münster Six Days". FirstCycling.com. 21 July 2023.
^ "Münster, Six Days 1967". cyclingarchives.com. 2023.

[1] "6 jours de Münster (Allemagne)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 21 July 2023.

[2] wn. "Grenzerfahrungen bei den Sechstagerennen". www.wn.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-21.

[3] "Ka-ke-ko-ku-Kilian". Der Spiegel (in German). 1950-03-22. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-21.

[4] "So was zehrt". Der Spiegel (in German). 1951-01-09. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-07-21.

[5] "Münster Six Days". FirstCycling.com. 21 July 2023.

[6] "Münster, Six Days 1967". cyclingarchives.com. 2023.

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