Six Days of the Greenery

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The Six Days of the Greenery is a marathon speed skating event that will be held on a yearly base in the Netherlands. The speed skaters meet each other in six races in a six day time span. The participants will have a to skate a distance of 100 laps of 400m before crossing the finish line in each and every race. As of 2002 the women's race was no longer a six day event, but had editions of a three, four and five days event.

[edit] Brussels sprout suit

KC Boutiette wearing the brussels sprout suit in 2003.

In the first race of a new edition the winner of the previous year wears a brussels sprout suit. In the next race and the following races the suit is there to identify the leader of the competition, similar to the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. The suit (spruitjespak in Dutch) was introduced as a tribute to 1997 Elfstedentocht winner Henk Angenent who outsprinted favorite Erik Hulzebosch and grows his own brussels sprout. Angenent was interviewed often in the media after the race, and his occupation a regular subject, resulting in this tribute. Angenent who is still active and still skates among the best he only worn the brussels sprout suit in an official Six Days of the Greenery race once.

[edit] Previous results

Year	Gender	First	Second	Third
1998	Men	Jan Maarten Heideman
1998	Women	Sandra de Ronde
1999	Men	Jan Maarten Heideman
1999	Women	Janny Zonderland
2000	Men	Jan Maarten Heideman	Cédric Michaud	Peter de Vries
2000	Women	Janny Zonderland	Marjanne Smit	Jenita Hulzebosch-Smit
2001	Men	Cédric Michaud	Rob van Meggelen	Jan Maarten Heideman
2001	Women	Daniëlle Bekkering	Janny Zonderland	Hillie van der Wal
2002	Men	Cédric Michaud	Jan Maarten Heideman	Ard Alderts
2002	Women	Lieke Splinter	Daniëlle Bekkering	Linda Verdouw
2003	Men	KC Boutiette	Jeroen de Vries	Jan Maarten Heideman
2003	Women	Daniëlle Bekkering	Petra Grimbergen	Jolanda Langeland
2004	Men	KC Boutiette	Cédric Michaud	Roel van Hest
2004	Women	Mischa Coolen	Mariska Huisman	Lieke Splinter
2005	Men	Cédric Michaud	Miel Rozendaal	Peter Baars
2005	Women	Elma de Vries	Daniëlle Bekkering	Jolanda Langeland
2006	Men	Jan Maarten Heideman	Andrès Landman	Kurt Wubben
2006	Women	Daniëlle Bekkering	Maria Sterk	Elma de Vries