Indoor cycling world championships

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Katrin Schultheis in the rainbow jersey of the artistic cycling world champion

The UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships (Engl. Indoor Cycling World Championships ) are from cycling's governing body UCI organized and take place annually at different locations instead. At the indoor cycling world championships, the world champions in cycling and artificial cycling are chosen.

As in the other UCI World Championships , the participants in the Indoor Cycling World Championships compete for their national cycling association. The winner of the world championship has the right or the duty to wear the " rainbow jersey" for one year at all official tournaments .

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The cycling world championship was held for the first time in 1930. Before that, there were European championships for three years. Only one team per country is eligible to participate in the World Cup. In 1972 the teams were divided into two groups for the first time. The six best nations of the previous year play in group A, the other teams in group B. Since the participating nations vary greatly from year to year, there was sometimes also a group C. The worst team in group A plays in a relegation game against the best team in group B for a starting place in group A next year.

The record winners are the Pospíšil brothers from Czechoslovakia with 20 titles.

Eternal medal table

rank country gold silver bronze Total
1. GermanyGermany Germany 31 26th 11 68
2. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 25th 14th 13 52
3. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 18th 27 20th 65
4th AustriaAustria Austria 6th 7th 14th 27
5. Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 2 4th 4th 10
6th FranceFrance France 0 4th 15th 19th
7th BelgiumBelgium Belgium 0 0 5 5

(Status: After the indoor cycling world championships 2018 )

Artistic cycling

1-man artificial cycling
( David Schnabel at the 2009 World Cup )

1-er women

From 1959 to 1969, the competition for single female cyclists was held under the name “Memorial Achille Joinard ”. Since 1970 the competition has been called the "World Championship".

Germany has won 37 of the 54 competitions to date. After all, the Czech Republic won ten world championship titles.

1-er men

One-man artificial cycling for men is the oldest discipline in artificial cycling. The first competitions were held as early as 1892. From 1928 onwards a European championship was held for the first time and since 1956 it has been officially called the "World Championship".

By far the most successful nation is Germany.

2-er women

2-man artificial cycling
( Katrin Schultheis and Sandra Sprinkmeier at the 2011 World Cup )

Between 1960 and 1969 a Grand City Prize was held in two women’s artistic cycling. From 1970 the competition was renamed the European Championship and since 1986 it has been called the World Championship.

By far the most successful nation is Germany with 42 titles in 49 events.

2 men

In 1958 the European criterion was held for the first time in the men's two-man art cycle. In 1970 the competition was renamed "European Championship" and since 1986 it has been officially called "World Championship". Mixed teams (women / men) have also been able to take part since 2008.

4-er women

The women's four-man artificial cycling world championship was first held in 2000. In the first three years, the competition was still called the “International Prize of the Indoor Cycling Association”, but was still held as part of the indoor cycling world championships.

6-er men

The world championship in six-man artificial cycling for men was held for the first time in 1960. After that there was no competition for eleven years. The competition was held annually from 1972 to 1981 and was then abolished.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radball medal table at www.hallenradsport-statistiken.de

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