The first edition was between 18 and 24 November 1932, in the old building of the
Amsterdam RAI on the
Ferdinand Bolstraat on a 166.6 metre track. This first edition was won by the Dutch couple
Jan Pijnenburg and
Piet van Kempen. The year afterwards the Dutch couple
Jan Pijnenburg/
Cor Wals beat the French couple
Marcel Guimbretiere/
Paul Broccado and the year later during the third edition it was the other way around and the French couple won. After
Adolphe Charlier and
Frans Slaats won the fourth edition in 1936 there were no more Six Days held in Amsterdam for thirty years. Due to the large unemployment and later also due to the
Second World War, the
National Cycling Union (NWU) prohibited to organise Six Day races. There were many proposals to organise a Six Day race after the Second World War but the fifth edition was years later in 1966, in the new RAI building located on the
Europaplein. After four editions in this building there were again about thirty years without the event organised in Amsterdam. Since 2001 the race takes place in the new build
Amsterdam Velodrome located in
Sportpark Sloten, with a 200-metre track and a capacity for 2000 spectators. World Champion
Ellen van Dijk fired the starting shot for the 21st edition in October 2013.{{cite news|title=Van Dijk schiet zesdaagse op gang ==List of winning teams of the Six Days of Amsterdam==