UCI track world championships 1923

The 19th UCI Track World Championships took place between August 18 and 26, 1923 on the Oerlikon cycling track in Zurich .

Starters from the Association of German Cyclists also took part in these world championships . The association had been excluded from the Union Cycliste Internationale for four years after the First World War . To celebrate this event, the magazine Illustrierter Radrenn-Sport published a special supplement about the World Cup.

The competitions took place in bright sunshine and around 15,000 spectators every day.

Professional driver

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	Netherlands	Piet Moeskops
	2	France	Gabriel Poulain
	3	Switzerland	Serious businessman
Standing race over 100 km	1	Switzerland	Paul Suter / Ernest Pasquier
	2	France	Léon Parisot
	3	German Empire	Karl Wittig

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	France	Lucien Michard
	2	Netherlands	Antoine Mazairac
	3	Netherlands	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1923

literature

• Illustrated cycling sport , 1923