UCI track world championships 1936

Arie van Vliet became world champion in the amateur sprint for the first time.

The 32nd UCI Track World Championships took place from August 28 to September 6, 1936 on the Oerlikon cycling track in Zurich .

45 drivers from 14 nations were registered for the sprint world championship for amateurs, and 31 drivers from nine countries for the professionals. There were 14 riders from eight countries at the start for the standing riders, a total of more riders than ever before, which was due to the fact that the Olympic Games in Berlin had only taken place two weeks earlier and therefore more and more athletes from overseas took part.

On the occasion of these world championships, Der Deutsche Radfahrer published the text for a "comical world championship opera". The German Albert Richter “sang”: “The day will come when I'll beat Mr. Scherens, Poeske, so I ask you, this time leave me!” , And the “three funny journeymen” (Richter, Paul Krewer , Toni Merkens ) proclaimed in the chorus: "Three people from Cologne probably crossed the Rhine to Zurich for the World Cup rendezvous, they dreamed that they would return home as winners." However, expectations were not met; only Richter could win a bronze medal in the professional sprint. Merkens, who had won the gold medal in the sprint as an amateur at the Olympic Games in Berlin around two weeks earlier, started as a professional at these world championships, but did not get past the quarter-finals.

Sigmund Durst , reporter for the German cyclist on site, again criticized the performance of the commissioners, because "this arbitrariness of a chauvinist and two non-experts goes too far".

Results of the professional drivers

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	Belgium	Jef Scherens
	2	France	Louis Gérardin
	3	German Empire	Albert Richter
Standing race	1	France	André Raynaud / Victor Philippe
over 100 km	2	France	Charles Lacquehay / Marcel Besson
	3	Belgium	Georges Ronsse / Ernest Pasquier

Results of the amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Flying races	1	Netherlands	Arie van Vliet
over 1000 m	2	France	Pierre Georget
	3	Belgium	Henri Collard

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In March of the following year Raynaud had a fatal accident in a stalker race in Antwerp. [1]

literature

• The German cyclist , August / September 1936