UCI track world championships 1938

The 34th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 27 to September 4, 1938 on the Velodrome in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam .

A total of around 60 athletes from 14 nations took part, including a racing driver from China for the first time.

The finals of the World Track Championship took place in front of around 40,000 spectators. The hosts met with great enthusiasm for the double victory of sprinters Arie van Vliet (professionals) and Jan van de Vijfer (amateurs), both protégés of the former racing driver Guus Schilling , while the Germans were delighted with world championships and vice world championships among the standing groups.

The pacemaker Felicien Van Ingelghem caused a serious fall in the standing race in which he himself, the Belgian August Meuleman and the Luxemburgish Josy Kraus were seriously injured.

For the first time, a competition in the single pursuit was held at these world championships, but it was not official, but only a demonstration race. The Dutchman Gerrit Schulte won ahead of his compatriots Jan Pijnenburg and Frans Slaats .

Results of the professional drivers

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	Netherlands	Arie van Vliet
	2	Belgium	Jef Scherens
	3	German Empire	Albert Richter
Standing race	1	German Empire	Erich Metze / Maurice Ville
over 100 km	2	German Empire	Walter Lohmann / Georges Grolimund
	3	Italy	Edoardo Severgnini / Arthur Pasquier

Results of the amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Flying races	1	Netherlands	Jef van de Vijver
over 1000 m	2	Italy	Bruno Loatti
	3	Netherlands	Jan Derksen

Individual evidence

1. ^ De Indische Courant , September 8, 1938, p.

literature

• The German cyclist , August / September 1938