UCI Track World Championships 1953

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Arie van Vliet won his second world title in Zurich

The 43 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held from August 21 to 26 1953 at the velodrome in Zurich-Oerlikon instead.

The stadium had been thoroughly overhauled for these world championships. When the repairs were due to take place, the painters in Zurich went on strike, and so the cycling officials, including the President of the Swiss Cyclists Association (SRB), Carl Senn, had to lend a hand themselves. Werner Potzernheim from Hanover won the only medal for the German team, a bronze one in the amateur sprint .

Results

Professionals

discipline	space	athlete	country
sprint	1	Arie van Vliet	Netherlands
	2	Enzo Sacchi	Italy
	3	Reg Harris	United Kingdom
Standing race (100 km)	1	Adolph Verschueren / Maurice Ville	Belgium
	2	Roger Queugnet	France
	3	Henri Lemoine	France
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	Sydney Patterson	Australia
	2	Kay Werner Nielsen	Denmark
	3	Antonio Bevilacqua	Italy

Amateurs

discipline	space	athlete	country
sprint	1	Marino Morettini	Italy
	2	Cesare Pinarello	Italy
	3	Werner Potzernheim	BR Germany
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	Guido Messina	Italy
	2	Loris Campana	Italy
	3	Daan de Groot	Netherlands

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cycling , August 18, 1953

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1953

See also

• 1953 UCI Road World Championships