UCI track world championships 1948

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The 38th UCI Track World Championships took place from 23 to 29 August 1948 on the 400-meter-long racetrack in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . The competitions were well attended. 50,000 spectators came to the final in the standing race alone. German drivers were not at the start due to the Second World War .

The Italian team was most successful with two gold, two silver and one bronze medals. However, Italian drivers also caused a scandal in the prosecution race: In the semifinals against his compatriot Fausto Coppi , Antonio Bevilacqua gave up for no apparent reason, obviously to let him go into the final. This would also have meant that Coppi would have been relatively rested in the subsequent final run against Gerrit Schulte from the Netherlands. The audience outraged loudly and threw their seat cushions on the cycle track. Only the decision of the competition jury to fine Bevilacqua with a fine of 2,500 francs and to postpone the final run by 24 hours calmed the spirits again.

In a survey, the 35 accredited journalists judged that the officials were not competent, did not know the regulations, and that the entire championships were poorly organized. The German Illustrierte Radsport-Express particularly criticized the fact that “a well-known Junker [meaning the association president Jonkheer Van den Berch van Heemstede] , who already showed his antipathy towards the press on other occasions […] undoubtedly shot the bird when he did in Valkenburg [where the street races took place] refused any credit for telephone lines to the press box ” .

Results of the professional drivers

discipline space country athlete
Air races over 1000 m 1 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Arie van Vliet
2 FranceFrance France Louis Gérardin
3 FranceFrance France Georges Senfftleben
Standing race over 100 km 1 FranceFrance France Jean-Jacques Lamboley
2 ItalyItaly Italy Elia Frosio
3 BelgiumBelgium Belgium August Meuleman
Single pursuit over 5000 m 1 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Gerrit Schulte 6.21.9
2 ItalyItaly Italy Fausto Coppi 6.25.4
3 ItalyItaly Italy Antonio Bevilacqua 6.25.0

Results of the amateurs

discipline space country athlete time
Air races over 1000 m 1 ItalyItaly Italy Mario Ghella 12.5 (1)
12.0 (2)
2 DenmarkDenmark Denmark Axel Schandorff
3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Reg Harris 12.9 (1)
12.6 (2)
Single pursuit over 4000 m 1 ItalyItaly Italy Guido Messina 5.18.7
2 AustraliaAustralia Australia Sydney Patterson 5.22.0
3 FranceFrance France Charles Coste 5.22.8

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Illustrated cycling Express are Jules Dupont (meaning probably Jacques Dupont ) mistakenly called Second to.

literature

  • Illustrated Cycling Express , 1948

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