1951 UCI track world championships

The 41st UCI Track World Championships took place from August 24th to 28th, 1951 on the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan . A total of 27 nations were at the start. An average of 20,000 spectators came to the competitions, a total of 150,000.

The Briton Reg Harris won his fourth world title in the sprint . The victory of local hero Enzo Sacchi in the amateur sprinters met with particular enthusiasm among the audience, the success of which was rounded off by a third place from Marino Morettini , "which triggered a storm of jubilation that is only conceivable and worth experiencing in countries of the Romance race". The German team was back for the first time in twelve years, but could not win a medal.

The reporter for the magazine Radsport vor Ort was the journalist Sigmund Durst . He particularly praised the technically very well-equipped cycling track, which he described as a "model cycling facility" and summed up: "... everything went like clockwork". As in previous years, he described the parallel UCI Summer Congress as a "formal matter". The delegates would only have the task of representing and attending banquets "... which have to be completed in such abundance that it would be worth comparing who actually has to cope with the more difficult task: the racing drivers fighting for world championship honors, or those on Congressists considered the fullness of their girth ”.

For the 400 or so journalists, a special stand was built in the interior, but - unlike the spectators on the covered stand - they sat in the sun. That's why they made paper helmets from red press kits and the pink “ Gazzetta dello Sport ”, much to the delight of the other visitors.

Results of the professional drivers

discipline	space	country	athlete
Air races over 1000 m	1	United Kingdom	Reg Harris
	2	France	Jacques Bellenger
	3	Australia	Sydney Patterson
persecution	1	Italy	Antonio Bevilacqua
over 5000 m	2	Switzerland	Hugo Koblet
	3	Denmark	Kay Werner Nielsen
Standing race	1	Netherlands	Jan Pronk / Frits Wiersma
over 100 km	2	Belgium	André Leliaert / Emile Vandenbosch
	3	France	Henri Lemoine / Arthur Pasquier

Results of the amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
Flying races	1	Italy	Enzo Sacchi
over 1000 m	2	Australia	Russell Mockridge
	3	Italy	Marino Morettini
persecution	1	Italy	Mino De Rossi
over 5000 m	2	Belgium	Raphaël Glorieux
	3	Italy	Guido Messina

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , September 4, 1951, p. 5
2. ↑ ^{a b} Radsport , September 4, 1951, pp. 7–8

See also

• 1951 UCI Road World Championships

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1951