UCI track world championships 1908

Fritz Ryser from Switzerland won the world champion in the professional category.

The 9th UCI-Bahn World Championships took place on July 26, 1908 on the cycling track in Leipzig-Lindenau for the amateurs and from July 30 to August 2, 1908 in Steglitz for the professional drivers .

Since two German cities, Berlin and Leipzig, had applied to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to host the world championships, the Solomonic decision was made to award the title fights to both cities, divided between amateurs and professional drivers. Nine nations took part in the world championships.

Among the amateurs in Leipzig, three Englishmen were among the best who had won medals at the 1908 Olympic Games in London a few weeks earlier .

The Dane Thorvald Ellegaard became world champion in professional sprinters for the fifth time. The Swiss Fritz Ryser won the stayer title in the absence of the German favorite Thaddäus Robl , who had not started because of the regulation that he should only ride behind single-seat pacemaker motorcycles.

Professional driver

discipline	space	country	athlete
Aviator race over 2 km	1	Denmark	Thorvald Ellegaard
	2	France	Gabriel Poulain
	3	Belgium	Charles Van Den Born
Standing race over 100 km	1	Switzerland	Fritz Ryser
	2	Italy	Eugenio Bruni
	3	Belgium	Arthur Vanderstuyft

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Aviator race over 2 km	1	United Kingdom	Victor Johnson
	2	United Kingdom	Benjamin Jones
	3	France	Émile Demangel
Standing race over 100 km	1	United Kingdom	Leon Meredith
	2	German Empire	Gustav Janke
	3	Belgium	Léon Vanderstuyft

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
• Rad-Welt , born in 1908