UCI track world championships 1930

Lucien Michard during a training session in the Heysel Stadium before the start of the World Cup

The 26th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 24th to 30th, 1930 on the Velodrome in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels .

19 drivers from eleven countries were registered for the professional flying competition, 43 drivers from 15 countries competed for the amateurs, including a driver named Mihanoff from Egypt. 14 riders from eight countries competed for the world title in the professional standers.

Erich Möller and Paul Krewer were nominated as stayers by the German federation , but not the world champion of 1928 and two-time German champion Walter Sawall : "[...] this news hit the German cycling community like a bomb". The press suspected that the reason for the non-nomination was disputes over the fees between the racing driver association and the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR), which had led to the German standing championships being canceled a few weeks earlier. However, the BDR cited the disappointing result of Walter Sawall at the World Cup the year before as the reason. Möller finally secured the world championship title: "All's well that ends well", wrote the Illustrierte Radrennsport and praised the new world champion as "one of the best cyclists Germany has ever produced, one who takes his job extremely seriously, from ambition and Fanaticism is animated, lives solidly and has a right to sport, trains hard and is up to date when it matters " . The five German sprinters who had arrived, however, experienced a "debacle".

The editor-in-chief of the illustrated cycling sport expressed himself angrily about the working conditions for the press. After having found good working conditions at World Championships in the past three years, Belgium was "left behind": "Only the French and Belgian press representatives (!) Are flattered; they get the best press seats, while the others take care of the few left over have to fight " .

The World Championships were framed by an abundance of festivities as they coincided with the celebrations of centenary independence from Belgium. The "Heysel Stadium" was also inaugurated shortly before as the "Stade du Centenaire" ("Stadium of the Centenary"). The memories of the First World War were still fresh: The Lord Mayor of Brussels, Max, had been interned by the Germans during the war. When the newly crowned world champion Erich Möller came to the box for the honor with a German supporter, the mayor left it.

Results of the professional drivers

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	France	Lucien Michard
	2	Netherlands	Piet Moeskops
	3	Italy	Orlando Piani
Standing race over 100 km	1	German Empire	Erich Möller
	2	France	Georges Paillard
	3	France	Robert Grassin

Results of the amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	France	Louis Gérardin
	2	United Kingdom	Syd Cozens
	3	Italy	Bruno Pellizzari

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustrated cycling sport , August 17, 1930.
2. ^ Illustrated cycling sport , September 7, 1930.
3. ^ Illustrated cycling sport , September 7, 1930.
4. ↑ Illustrated Radrenn-Sport , August 16, 1935, p. 2.

literature

• Illustrated cycling , August 1930.