Six Days of Essen

Six Days of Essen
Race details
Date	February, March
Region	Essen, Germany
Local name(s)	Sechstagerennen von Essen (in German)
Discipline	Track
Type	Six-day racing
History
First edition	1960
Editions	8
Final edition	1967
First winner	Hans Jarosczewicz (GER) ; Günther Ziegler (GER)
Most wins	Fritz Pfenninger (SUI); Peter Post (NED) (3 wins)
Final winner	Fritz Pfenninger (SUI); Peter Post (NED)

The Six Days of Essen was a short-lived six-day track cycling race held annually in Essen, Germany.^[1]

Fritz Pfenninger and Peter Post won in three of the eight editions, of which two as couple.^[2]

Winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1960	Hans Jarosczewicz Günther Ziegler	Klaus Bugdahl Gerrit Schulte	Reginald Arnold Ferdinando Terruzzi
1961	Reginald Arnold Ferdinando Terruzzi	Rudi Altig Hans Junkermann	Klaus Bugdahl Jean Roth
1962	Klaus Bugdahl Fritz Pfenninger	Rudi Altig Hans Junkermann	Emile Severeyns Rik Van Steenbergen
1963	Rudi Altig Hans Junkermann	Peter Post Rik Van Steenbergen	Klaus Bugdahl Fritz Pfenninger
1964	Rudi Altig Hans Junkermann	Klaus Bugdahl Sigi Renz	Palle Lykke Jensen Rik Van Steenbergen
1965	Peter Post Rik Van Steenbergen	Rudi Altig Hans Junkermann	Palle Lykke Jensen Freddy Eugen
1966	Peter Post Fritz Pfenninger	Klaus Bugdahl Sigi Renz	Rudi Altig Dieter Kemper
1967	Peter Post Fritz Pfenninger	Sigi Renz Hans Junkermann	Horst Oldenburg Dieter Kemper

^ "6 jours d'Essen (Allemagne)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 19 July 2023.
^ "Essen, Sechstagerennen". radsportseiten.net (in German). 2023.