UCI track world championships 1902

Émile Bouhours finished second behind Robl in the standing race.

The 3rd UCI Track World Championships took place on June 15 in Rome and on June 22, 1902 on the Friedenau cycle track .

Rome was the declared location for the world championships, but the flat cycling track there proved to be unsuitable for standing races . Therefore, the Italian organizers gave back the standing races and only hosted the aviator races . As in the previous year, the standing races took place in Berlin.

The championships in Rome took place in front of over 10,000 spectators. The German Willy Arend fell in an intermediate run and was unable to continue.

At the standing races in Berlin, Thaddäus Robl won his second world title with an eleven lap lead over second, Émile Bouhours. Local hero Alfred Görnemann won the amateurs category. He had a fatal accident just a year later in a race against Robl in Dresden.

Results

Professional driver

discipline	space	country	athlete
Aviator race over 2 km	1	Denmark	Thorvald Ellegaard
	2	Netherlands	Harrie Meyers
	3	Italy	Pietro Bixio
Standing race over 100 km	1	German Empire	Squidward Robl
	2	France	Émile Bouhours
	3	France	Edouard Taylor

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Aviator race over 2 km	1	France	Charles Piard
	2	France	Léon Delaborde
	3	Denmark	Orla North
Standing race over 100 km	1	German Empire	Alfred Goernemann
	2	German Empire	Willy Keller
	3	Netherlands	Johann Diehle

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 throughout Germany since 1895 , Berlin 1999

• Wheel world , 1902