UCI track world championships 1950
The 40th UCI Track World Championships took place in August 1950 on the Velodrome de Rocourt Velodrome near Liège .
The stadium was the home of the "Royal Football Club de Liège" (RFC Liège). The cycling complained that they had simply "laid cement ribbon around the turf" is a 400-meter long. The stadium was still half a construction site. The audience response was so poor that there was talk of a world championship "closed to the public". “That would never have been possible in Antwerp and Brussels,” said the popular Dutch ex six-day driver Piet van Kempen critically.
Athletes from 23 nations took part, but none from Germany. In May 1950, the Association of German Cyclists was again included in the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The magazine Radsport celebrated this as a “historic cycling event”: “We fully understand those states that have so far refused to be recognized. [...] Let us hope that the wounds inflicted by the war have finally healed. May fate save us from new ones. ”However, the hoped-for first start of German racing drivers at a World Cup after the Second World War failed due to the objection of the Belgian Cycling Federation as the host of the title fights.
Results of the professionals
discipline | space | country | athlete |
---|---|---|---|
sprint | 1 | United Kingdom | Reg Harris |
2 | Netherlands | Arie van Vliet | |
3 | Netherlands | Jan Derksen | |
Standing race (100 km) | 1 | France | Raoul Lesueur |
2 | Netherlands | Jan Pronk | |
3 | France | Georges Sérès jr. | |
Single pursuit (5000 m) | 1 | Italy | Antonio Bevilacqua |
2 | Netherlands | Wim van Est | |
3 | France | Paul Matteoli |
Results of the amateurs
discipline | space | country | athlete |
---|---|---|---|
sprint | 1 | France | Maurice Verdeun |
2 | France | Pierre Even | |
3 | Netherlands | Johannes Hijzelendoorn | |
Single pursuit (4000 m) | 1 | Australia | Sid Patterson |
2 | Italy | Aldo Gandini | |
3 | Italy | Guido Messina |
Individual evidence
- ^ Cycling , August 15, 1950
- ^ Cycling , August 28, 1950
- ^ Cycling , August 21, 1950
- ^ Cycling , May 15, 1950
- ^ Cycling , June 5, 1950
See also
literature
- Cycling , August 1950