UCI Road World Championships 1974

The UCI Road World Championships 1974 were from 21 to 25 August at the Canadian Montreal instead.

The route was a 12.5-kilometer circuit that was considered difficult with numerous steep inclines. It was also very hot.

For the professionals, 69 drivers from 15 nations started, of which 18 just finished. The professionals drove the lap 21 times. The French Bernard Thévenet completed a 100-kilometer solo journey at the top, but was then intercepted during the last lap and "passed" through to fifth place. The Belgian Eddy Merckx became world champion and won his third title.

172 athletes took part in the amateurs race, including six German starters. At the finish, Peter Weibel was the best rider of the Association of German Cyclists in fifth place.

Results

Women

Single road race over 60 km

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Geneviève Gambillon	FRA	1:47:36 h (33.457 km / h)
2	Bajba Tsaune	URS	same time
3	Keetie van Oosten-Hage	NED	same time

Men - professionals

Individual road race over 262.6 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Eddy Merckx	BEL	6:52:22 h (38.173 km / h)
2	Raymond Poulidor	FRA	+ 2 s
3	Mariano Martinez	FRA	+ 37 s

Men (amateurs)

Single road race over 175 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Janusz Kowalski	POLE	4:43:10 h (37.080 km / h)
2	Ryszard Szurkowski	POLE	same time
3	Michel Kuhn	CHE	same time

Team time trial over 100 km

space	country	team	time
1	SWE	Lennart Fagerlund , Bernt Johansson , Tord Filipsson , Sven-Åke Nilsson	2:12:22 h
2	SUN	Gennady Komnatov , Rinat Sharafullin , Vladimir Kaminsky , Valery Tschaplygin	2:12:24 h
3	GDR	Hans-Joachim Hartnick , Karl-Dietrich Diers , Horst Tischoff , Gerhard Lauke	2:15:15 h

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 120, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1974