Six Days of the Greenery

Six Days of the Greenery

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.

Brussels sprout suit

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.

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