1955 UCI track world championships

The 45th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 31 to September 3, 1955 on the Vigorelli track in Milan .

Athletes from 24 nations took part in the world championships (street competitions included). Around 15,000 to 20,000 spectators followed the final fights.

Host Italy was the most successful team with three world championship titles. The biggest surprise was the victory in the standing race by the Spaniard Guillermo Timoner , who also became the first Spanish cycling world champion. During these world championships, the legendary standing attempt of the Italian Antonio Maspes took place together with the Dutchman Jan Derksen , which lasted 32 minutes and 20 seconds and was finally canceled by the referees.

At the end of 1955 it became known that the French association, which had initially applied to host the World Championships, had allegedly received five million D-Marks for withdrawing its application from the Italian association. Rumors that the President of the French Federation and at the same time President of the UCI World Cycling Federation , Achille Joinard , had received the money personally, were rejected by the French Federation. Incidentally, the World Cup was not held because the number of spectators at the 1952 UCI Track World Championships was too low.

Results of the professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Antonio Maspes
	2	Switzerland	Oscar Plattner
	3	Netherlands	Arie van Vliet
Standing race (100 km)	1	Spain	Guillermo Timoner / Felicien Van Ingelghem
	2	Switzerland	Walter Bucher / Arthur Pasquier
	3	Italy	Giuseppe Martino / Léon Vanderstuyft
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	Italy	Guido Messina
	2	Switzerland	René Strehler
	3	Netherlands	Wim van Est

Results of the amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Giuseppe Ogna
	2	Argentina	Jorge Bátiz
	3	Australia	John Tresidder
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	United Kingdom	Norman Sheil
	2	United Kingdom	Peter Brotherton
	3	Italy	Leandro Faggin

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1955

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cycling , January 3, 1956