Betzdorf City Night

The Betzdorfer City-Night until 2008, Erzquell-City-Night and 2012-2014 financial institutions City-Night after each main sponsor of Erzquell brewery and the Kreissparkasse Altenkirchen is a cycling - criterion in Rhineland-Palatinate Betzdorf . Since 2016 the race has been called the Betzdorf City Night again .

The former criterion and today's circuit race has existed since 1996 and is now increasing every two years in summer in the Betzdorf city center. The organizer is the cycling club Betzdorf 1984 . According to the organizer, the race is one of the top five in all of Germany. With more than 12,000 spectators, the races have been well attended in the past.

In addition to the professional race, the preliminary program includes a race for eight to twelve year olds over four laps and an amateur race (B and C class) over 70 laps. The main event is 90 rounds long. The length of the course is 900 meters.

history

The criterion in downtown Betzdorf took place for the first time in 1996 and first took the place of a race for the German amateur elite. There were 52 drivers at the start.

Over the years, the circuit race became more and more important in the German cycling calendar. Only in 1998 the race had to be canceled due to a construction site on the actual course. At the fourth edition in 2000, Bert Grabsch was the first GS I rider at the start. In the races that followed, the number of professionals increased steadily, for example in 2001 Udo Bölts proved his skills on the course.

In 2002 the race length was increased from 85 to 90 laps. The race was well-known with Jens Heppner , Jörg Ludewig , Patrick Sinkewitz and Michael Rich . This was also the case in 2003 and 2004. With Robbie McEwen , an international star entered the list of winners for the first time in 2005, the ninth edition.

In 2007 the race was held for the last time for a longer period of time for the male professionals, in 2008 it was held as a professional women’s race and won by Angela Henning .

After a three-year break, the City Night was re-launched on July 6, 2012 with the Kreissparkasse Altenkirchen as the new main sponsor, but without professional participation. The pure amateur race for classes A / B / C and (2014) also U17, with around 10,000 visitors, is still one of the sporting highlights in the victorious town of Betzdorf. A well-attended press conference takes place every year in the run-up to the event. The main class of A / B amateurs starts in the dark under floodlights.

The City Night has been held every two years since 2012. The RSC Betzdorf held the last races on July 18, 2014 and August 19, 2016.

The 16th edition of the City Night took place on August 10, 2018.

Winners list

2008 Angela Hennig 2007 Linus Gerdemann 2006 Erik Zabel 2005 Robbie McEwen 2004 Danilo Hondo

2003 Jens Voigt 2002 Udo Bölts 2001 Michael Schlickau 2000 Björn Glasner

1999 Wolfgang Oschwald 1998 not held 1997 Michael Schlickau 1996 Uwe Preißler

Web links

• Homepage of the cycling club Betzdorf 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Betzdorf City Night - RACE & ROCK elite bike races around the Sparkasse Forum on betzdorf.de; accessed on August 9, 2018
2. ↑ Result lists for 2012 on rad-net.de; accessed on August 9, 2018
3. ↑ Results lists for 2014 on rad-net.de; accessed on August 9, 2018
4. ↑ Betzdorf racing driver successful at home race on www.rsc-betzdorf.de; accessed on August 9, 2018
5. ↑ Result lists for 2016 on rad-net.de; accessed on August 9, 2018
6. ↑ Cycling event "City Night" lures back to Betzdorf , AK-Kurier.de from August 4, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2018
7. ↑ Announcement on rad-net.de ; accessed on August 10, 2018
8. ↑ List of winners up to 2008 on rhein-zeitung.de; accessed on August 9, 2018