UCI track world championships 1927

Willy Falck Hansen (r.), Here at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam with Antoine Mazairac , was runner-up in the amateur sprinter world championship.

The 23rd UCI Track World Championships took place on July 17th and 20th in Cologne-Müngersdorf (sprint competitions) and on July 22nd and 24th, 1927 on the Radrennbahn in Elberfeld (stayer race). 16 nations were at the start.

The awarding of the world championships by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) was also a political signal, since Germany was not re-accepted into the World Cycling Association until 1923 after the First World War . The organizer Heinrich Stevens , former President of the Association of German Cyclists (BDR), had successfully campaigned for Cologne.

The city of Cologne under its Lord Mayor Konrad Adenauer took the opportunity to set up a "World Cycling Festival": In addition to the official World Cup matches, German championships were held in numerous cycling disciplines such as team cycling , cycling and artificial cycling . The UCI also met in Cologne.

The sprint competitions were held in the Müngersdorfer Stadium . The amateurs were won by the Cologne local hero Mathias Engel, third was another Cologne rider, Peter Steffes. The French Lucien Michard won the professionals. In the standing races in the Elberfelder Stadion am Zoo , the Belgian Victor Linart was ahead.

At the same time, the UCI Road World Championships for road drivers took place on the Nürburgring ; the first World Cup was organized for professionals .

Professional driver

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	France	Lucien Michard
	2	Switzerland	Serious businessman
	3	France	Lucien Faucheux
Standing race (100 km)	1	Belgium	Victor Linart / Arthur Pasquier
	2	German Empire	Paul Krewer / Christian Junggeburth
	3	German Empire	Walter Sawall / Ernest Pasquier

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	German Empire	Mathias Engel
	2	Denmark	Willy Falck Hansen
	3	German Empire	Peter Steffes

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
• Renate Franz : "The World Championships in Cologne", in: Sport for Cologne - yesterday, today, tomorrow , Cologne 2009, pp. 117-131.

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1927