Six Days of Charleroi

Six Days of Charleroi
Race details
Date	Mid-December
Region	Charleroi, Belgium
Local name(s)	Six Jours de Charleroi (in French)
Discipline	Track
Type	Six-day racing
History
First edition	1967
Editions	3
Final edition	1969
First winner	Patrick Sercu (BEL) ; Ferdinand Bracke (BEL)
Most wins	Patrick Sercu (BEL) ; Ferdinand Bracke (BEL) (2 wins)
Final winner	Patrick Sercu (BEL) ; Norbert Seeuws (BEL)

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

It took place on a dismountable velodrome, especially installed for the event in the Charleroi Exhibition Centre. Three editions were organized from 1967 to 1969, of which Patrick Sercu and Ferdinand Bracke won two.^[2]

Winners

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1967	Patrick Sercu Ferdinand Bracke	Norbert Seeuws Théo Verschueren	Giuseppe Beghetto Klaus Bugdahl
1968	Eddy Merckx Ferdinand Bracke	Robert Lelangue Julien Stevens	Rik Van Looy Patrick Sercu
1969	Norbert Seeuws Patrick Sercu	Eddy Merckx Julien Stevens	Rudi Altig Ferdinand Bracke

External links

References

^ "6 jours de Charleroi (Belgique)". Memoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
^ "Charleroi Six-days". FirstCycling.com. 2022.

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[1] "6 jours de Charleroi (Belgique)". Memoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved 19 September 2016.

[2] "Charleroi Six-days". FirstCycling.com. 2022.

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