Six Days of Hanover

Six Days of Hanover
Race details
Region	Hanover, Germany
Local name(s)	Sechstagerennen von Hannover (in German)
Discipline	Track
Type	Six-day racing
History
First edition	1913
Editions	10
Final edition	1981
First winner	Willy Lorenz (GER) ; Karl Saldow (GER)
Most wins	Émile Carrara (FRA) (2)
Final winner	Roman Hermann (LIE); Horst Schütz (FRG)

The Six Days of Hanover was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Hanover, Germany until 1981.^[1]

Émile Carrara won in two editions.^[2]

In 2011, 30 years after the last edition, an attempt to reorganize the event failed.^[3]

Winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1913	Willy Lorenz Karl Saldow	Erich Aberger Willy Techmer	Willy Arend Karl Ehlert
1914-1949	no edition
1950 (1)	Gustav Kilian Heinz Vopel	Severino Rigoni Ferdinando Terruzzi	Harry Saager Heinrich Schwarzer
1950 (2)	Hugo Koblet Armin von Büren	Gustav Kilian Jean Roth	Harry Saager Guy Lapebie
1951 (1)	Émile Carrara Guy Lapebie	Severino Rigoni Ferdinando Terruzzi	Gustav Kilian Heinz Vöpel
1951 (2)	Ludwig Hörmann Jean Schorn	Theo Intra Jean Roth	Ferdi Kübler Harry Saager
1952	Émile Carrara Georges Senfftleben	Lucien Gillen Gustav Kilian	Dominique Forlini Hans Preiskeit
1953	Oskar Plattner Hans Preiskeit	Lucien Acou Arie van Vliet	Waldemar Knoke Armin von Büren
1954-1978	no edition
1979	Albert Fritz Patrick Sercu	Günther Schumacher René Pijnen	Wilfried Peffgen Horst Schütz
1980	Donald Allan Danny Clark	Dietrich Thurau Patrick Sercu	Albert Fritz Günther Schumacher
1981	Roman Hermann Horst Schütz	Gert Frank Patrick Sercu	Udo Hempel Günther Schumacher

^ "6 jours de Hanovre / Hanover (Allemagne)". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ "Hannover Six Days". FirstCycling.com. 21 July 2023.
^ "Hannover Six Day race cancelled due to organiser's illness". cyclingarchives.com. 4 November 2011.