UCI track world championships 1925

The 21st UCI Track World Championships took place on the Velodrome in the Amsterdam Stadium. On August 16, 1925, the aviator finals and on August 23, the stayer competitions were held. It was the first cycling world championship that was held in the Netherlands.

The track was 400 meters long and nailed from wooden crossbars, which was initially unusual for many drivers, who mostly drove on cement tracks. When the weather was fine, the competitions were well attended, with around 10,000 spectators at the heats and 17,000 for the final run (sold out). For the first time, an athlete from Africa, the Egyptian Madkour, took part in these "World Championships", whose participants had so far mainly come from Western Europe and North America, but who was eliminated in the run-up to the later sprint world champion Ernst Kaufmann.

At the same time, a congress of the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) took place, about which the Illustrierte Radrenn-Sport reported: “ We have long been used to UCI conferences that nothing comes out of them. We do not want to bore our readers with the unimportant details. "

The Dutch favorite in the professional sprint, Piet Moeskops , had to be lured to the start by those responsible with a considerable fee. Moeskops, at that time already four times world champion in a row, was then eliminated, to the general astonishment in front of the home crowd, in the semifinals against the Frenchman Maurice Schilles. "The two of them give their best and cover the last few meters shoulder to shoulder with a terrible roar of the crowd, and Schilles, sprinting with desperate energy, can with an almost imperceptible lead on the tape of the world championship series by Pieter Daniel Moeskops Prepare for the end! General great excitement! "

The Frenchman Grassin became world champion of the stayers on an Opel bike despite the handicap that the motor of his pacemaker machine had initially been confiscated by Dutch customs at the border. The Dutch favorite Cor Blekemolen had to give up in advance because of a stitch. The German starter Karl Saldow lost his run against the Dutchman Jaap Snoek because the machine of his pacemaker ran out of fuel. Two-time Belgian world champion Victor Linart , who only started for a high fee, finished the final with four participants, 19 laps behind.

Professional driver

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	Switzerland	Serious businessman
	2	France	Maurice Schilles
	3	France	Lucien Michard
Standing race over 100 km	1	France	Robert Grassin
	2	Netherlands	Jan Snoek
	3	France	Georges Sérès

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	Netherlands	Jaap Meijer
	2	Netherlands	Antoine Mazairac
	3	Netherlands	Bernard Leene

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The so-called "old" stadium existed from 1914 to 1929 and was located opposite the later Amsterdam Olympic Stadium .
2. ↑ See: Illustrierter Radrenn – Sport , 1925
3. ↑ Illustrated cycling sport , August 27, 1925
4. ↑ autodino.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1925

literature

• Illustrated cycling sport , 1925