UCI track world championships 1913

Walter Rütt became the world champion of professional sprinters.

Sprint finals of the amateurs (from left to right): Christel Rode, William Bailey and Harry Ryan

The 14th UCI-Bahn World Championships took place from August 28 to 31, 1913 on the cycling track in Leipzig-Lindenau for professional drivers and from August 23 to 24 in Berlin-Grunewald for amateurs on the track in the German Stadium .

As in 1908, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) decided for 1913 for the two German venues Berlin and Leipzig. The competitions in Berlin took place on the very long cycling track (666.66 meters) in the German Stadium. The stadium was built for the 1916 Olympic Games , which were not held because of the First World War . 50 amateur drivers from ten countries took part, including 33 German drivers, 27 of whom came from Berlin. Despite this numerical superiority, two Englishmen became world champions; William Bailey managed to win the fourth title in the amateur sprinters.

The German Walter Rütt, also a popular six-day driver , became world champion in the professional sprinters' category . The Frenchman Paul Guignard became the permanent world champion. The German Richard Scheuermann, who took third place, had a fatal accident just a few weeks later in Cologne.

Professional driver

discipline	space	country	athlete
Sprint over 2000 m	1	German Empire	Walter Ruett
	2	Denmark	Thorvald Ellegaard
	3	France	André Perchicot
Standing race over 100 km	1	France	Paul Guignard
	2	France	Jules Miquel
	3	German Empire	Richard Scheuermann

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Sprint over 1000 m	1	United Kingdom	William Bailey
	2	United Kingdom	Harry Ryan
	3	German Empire	Christel Rode
Standing race over 100 km	1	United Kingdom	Leon Meredith
	2	German Empire	Axel Beyer
	3	Netherlands	Cor Blekemolen

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