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Six-day racing returns to London this month - tickets still available (+ video)

Lee Valley VeloPark once again plays host to some of world's top riders...

The velodrome at the Lee Valley VeloPark will host some of the world’s top track cyclists later this month as London plays host to a six-day track meet for the first time in more than three decades.

Among the riders taking part will be Belgian track specialist Iljo Keisse, Niki Terpstra of the Netherlands and Denmark’s Alex Rasmussen, as well as British talent including Adam Blythe and Germain Burton.

Women’s racing also features on the programme on three of the nights, with riders including Dani King and Dame Sarah Storey, both of whom won gold on the same track at London 2012.

First devised in Islington in 1878 and hugely popular in the United States at the turn of the last century – the Madison is named after Madison Square Garden – six-day racing is still a big draw in Europe but has been absent from London since 1980.

- Back home - 6 day racing returns to London this October (+ videos)

Entertainment off the track is as much a part of its appeal as the racing on it, and this month’s event will feature music from Ministry of Sound and will also be screened live on Eurosport.

Double world Madison champion Mark Cavendish, who is an ambassador for the event, had hoped to compete but instead will be among the spectators as a result of the injury he sustained at the Tour of Britain last month which cut short his season.

He said: “There’s an ambience about a Six Day event which is hard to describe. It’s like a party with some cycling going on!

“It’s a great field, some of the top racers around and is going to be a fantastic event.”

The event takes place from Sunday 18 to Friday 23 October and tickets can be bought through Ticketmaster.

Full details of the programme can be found on the Six Day website, and below you’ll find a list of the riders competing, arranged by pairs in the case of the men’s elite team competition.

Elite Men’s Teams

Morgan Kneisky (FRA) and
Lucas Liss (GER)

Michael Morkov (DNK) and
Jesper Morkov (DNK)

Iljo Keisse (BEL) and
Gijs Van Hoecke (BEL)

Glenn O’Shea (AUS) and
Adam Blythe (GBR)

Alex Rasmusen (DNK) and
Mark Hester (DNK)

Germain Burton (GBR) and
Mark Stewart (GBR)

Chris Latham (GBR) and
Ollie Wood (GBR)

Niki Terspstra (NLD) and
Yoeri Havik (NLD)

Stefan Schafer (GER) and
Christian Grasman (GER)

Sebastian Wotschke (GER) and
Achim Burkart (GER)

Jasper Asselman (NLD) and
Welsey Kreder (NLD)

Lasse-Norman Hansen (DNK) and
Martyn Irvine (IRL)

David Muntaner (ESP) and
Albert Torres (ESP)

Ivan Kovalev (RUS) and
Melvin van Zijl (NLD)

Chris Lawless (GBR) and
Denis Rugivac (CZE)

Andreas Muller (AUT) and
Andreas Graf (AUT)

Jacob Duehring (USA) and
Daniel Holloway (USA)

Kenny De Ketele (BEL) and
Moreno De Pauw (BEL)

Elite Women Riders

Laura Basso (ITA)
Janine Bubner (GER)
Tela Crane (USA)
Verena Eberhardt (AUT)
Charline Joiner (GBR)
Romy Kasper (GER)
Dani King (GBR)
Lisa Kulmer (GER)
Judith Leth (DNK)
Jarmila Machacova (CZE)
Tatjana Paller (GER)
Alzbeta Pavlendova (SLK)
Stephanie Pohl (GER)
Christine Robson (GBR)
Anita Yvonne Stenberg (NOR)
Sarah Storey (GBR)
Amalie Winther-Olson (DEN)
Malgorzata Wojtyra (POL)

Elite Men Sprinters

Tomas Babek (CZE)
Denis Dmitriev (RUS)
Nate Koch (USA)
Kazunari Watanabe (JPN)
Matthew Rotherham (GBR)
Thomas Rotherham (GBR)

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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jollygoodvelo | 9 years ago
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I was going to go to this. But the prices, while reasonable compared to the track world cup and similar, basically count out going on multiple nights (surely that's the point?) I'm looking for some last minute discounts...

Looking at Ticketmaster there are huge numbers of tickets left... I'm worried that there won't be that much atmosphere.

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jollygoodvelo replied to jollygoodvelo | 9 years ago
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Gizmo_ wrote:

I was going to go to this. But the prices, while reasonable compared to the track world cup and similar, basically count out going on multiple nights (surely that's the point?) I'm looking for some last minute discounts...

Looking at Ticketmaster there are huge numbers of tickets left... I'm worried that there won't be that much atmosphere.

And just like that... got an email this afternoon from Ticketmaster with 33% off, which makes it much better value!

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