As of: January 31, 2024, 4:41 p.m
By: Marcel Prigge
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In recent years, the Bremen Sixdays had to be canceled three times.
The first resumption of the race took place on Friday evening.
Bremen – The first six-day race in four years kicked off in the Hanseatic city of Bremen on Friday evening.
Vanessa Mai gave the starting signal for the historic track cycling event, which first took place in 1965, in the ÖVB Arena.
However, it had to be canceled three times in the recent past due to the coronavirus pandemic and the war situation in Ukraine.
Sixdays starts in Bremen: 60,000 visitors expected
A significant change when racing resumes is that the Bremen "Sixdays" will now only take place over a period of four days, until January 15th.
Organizers hope this streamlined format will lower costs and increase audience appeal.
They predict around 60,000 visitors by Monday evening.
This number corresponds to the total number of visitors achieved over six race days in 2020.
The drivers of the 57th Sixdays Bremen are on the track before the starting signal.
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This year's participants include the current track cycling world champions Jan Willem van Schip and Yoeri Havik from the Netherlands, the former world champions Roger Kluge and Theo Reinhardt from Germany and the Olympic champion Franziska Brauße.
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