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Zabel scores another six-day win

by VeloNews.com

• January 14, 2009
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Actively retired: Zabel plans on hanging it up after next week’s Six-Day in Berlin … really.

Photo: Agence France Presse – file photo

In what is one of his last appearances on the velodrome, Erik Zabel joined Leif Lampater in winning the 45th edition of the Six Days of Bremen in Germany late Tuesday.

The 38-year-old Zabel competed in the penultimate track event of his career in Bremen, with plans to make his farewell appearance at the Six Days of Berlin, slated for January 22-27.

Zabel and Lampater finished ahead of the German-Swiss duo Olaf Pollack and Franco Marvulle.

Pollack suffered a heavy crash during the last laps of the race and was later diagnosed with a broken clavicle.

Six Days of Bremen
Results
1. Erik Zabel/Leif Lampater (G), 431 pts
2. Olaf Pollack/Franco Marvulli (G/Swi), 416
3. Bruno Risi/Danny Stam (Swi/Ned), 345, at one lap
4. Robert Bartko/Alexander Aeschbach (G/Swi), 325, at three laps
5. Leon van Bon/Kenny de Ketele (Ned/B), 239, at five laps