Track cycling world championships 1895
The track cycling world championships in 1895 took place from August 17th to 19th in Cologne on the cycling track on Mülheimer Straße in Cologne-Riehl (today the Cologne Zoo is located there ).
Four races were held, two for amateurs and two for the first time for professional drivers . The disciplines on the program were aviation races, today sprint , over 1 mile and standing races over 100 km (behind non-motorized multi-seater pacemakers). Around 60 drivers from eleven nations took part. The organizer was the "International Cyclists Association", a predecessor organization of the UCI .
Since the organizer, the German Cyclists Association , insisted on dedicating the world championships to the 25th anniversary of the German victory over France in 1870, the French riders refused to participate; Drivers from other nations showed their solidarity with them, including the Italian Gigi Pontecchi, who was favored for the sprint.
The only 18-year-old Welshman Jimmy Michael was the surprising winner in the stayer race for professional drivers. The decision in the sprint of the professional drivers came to a head: First of all, there were disagreements about whether to start standing or flying. In the finals, the American banker, on the other hand, kept a shadow for the finish line and believed he was the winner when the Belgian Protin drove past him and won. Attempts to repeat this final failed, however, so that Protin remained world champion.
Professional driver
discipline | space | country | athlete |
---|---|---|---|
1 mile flying race | 1 | Belgium | Robert Protin |
2 | United States | George A. Banker | |
3 | Belgium | Emile Huet | |
Standing race over 100 km | 1 | United Kingdom | Jimmy Michael |
2 | Belgium | Henri Luyten | |
3 | German Empire | Hans Hofmann |
Amateurs
discipline | space | country | athlete | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 mile flying race | 1 | Netherlands | Jaap Eden | |
2 | Denmark | Christian Ingemann Petersen | ||
3 | German Empire | Jean Schaaf | ||
Standing race over 100 km | 1 | Netherlands | Mathieu Cordang | |
2 | Netherlands | Kees Witteveen | ||
3 | Norway | Wilhelm Henie |
literature
- Werner Ruttkus / Wolfgang Schoppe / Hans-Alfred Roth : In the shine and shadow of the rainbow. A look back at the cycling world championships in racing, which have been held across Germany since 1895 , Berlin 1999