The Six Day London organisers have announced the final rider start list for the 16 teams that will compete on the Lee Valley VeloPark velodrome from 25-30 October. After an absence of six day racing in the British capital for several decades, the event was held to great success last year with Madison Sports Group CEO Mark Darbon explaining that he believes the event will be bigger and better for year two.
"Outside of a world championship or Olympic Games, there cannot be many stronger fields put together on the track, with nine former world champions, a current Olympic Champion, last year's winners and some of the best six day riders around," said Darbon. "Add to that a really strong women’s field with two of our GB gold medallists and you can start to see why the crowds are flocking to Six Day. And the event wouldn’t be complete without the sprinters who bring bags of entertainment to the proceedings as well as explosive racing."
Headlining the start list is the British team of Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins with the later making his penultimate appearance as a professional cyclist before one final race at the Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent (Six Days of Ghent) in November. The duo teamed up in London earlier this year, winning the Madison World title in March, eight year's on from their 2008 Manchester Madison success.
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Defending champion Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw will return to London for the six day.
Held simultaneously will be a three-day women's omnium that features British cyclist Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker.
2016 Six Day London teams - men
1 - Mark Cavendish & Sir Bradley Wiggins (GBr)
2 - Kenny de Ketele & Moreno de Pauw (Bel)
3 - Yoeri Havik & Wim Stroetinga (Ned)
4 - Leif Lampater & Marcel Kalz (Ger)
5 - Albert Torres & Sebastian Mora Vedri (Esp)
6 - Morgan Kneisky & Benjamin Thomas (Fra)
7 - Marc Hester & Jesper Morkov (Den)
8 - Andreas Muller & Andreas Graf (Aut)
9 - Ollie Wood & Jon Dibben (GBr)
10 - Cameron Meyer & Callum Scotson (Aus)
11 - Alex Buttazzoni & Fracesco Lamon (Ita)
12 - Casper Pederson & Alex Rasmussen (Den)
13 - Jens Mouris & Pim Ligthart (Ned)
14 - Christian Grasmann & Max Beyer (Ger)
15 - Tristan Marguet & Claudio Imhoff (Sui)
16 - Andy Tennant & Chris Latham (GBr)
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