1959 UCI Track World Championships

Award ceremony for the amateur pursuit: Mario Vallotto, Rudi Altig, Willy Trepp

The 49th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 8 to 13, 1959 on the Velodrome in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . The runway was made of cement and 400 meters long. A total of around 85,000 spectators came to the finals, 60,000 of them alone.

In the single pursuit of the amateurs, the German Rudi Altig achieved his first major international success.

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Galina Yermolayeva
	2	Soviet Union	Valentina Pantilova
	3	United Kingdom	Jeanne Dunn
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1	United Kingdom	Beryl Burton
	2	Luxembourg	Elsa Jacobs
	3	Soviet Union	Lyubov Kozhetova

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Antonio Maspes
	2	France	Michel Rousseau
	3	Netherlands	Jan Derksen
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	France	Roger Rivière
	2	France	Albert Bouvet
	3	Belgium	Jean Brankart
Standing race (100 km)	1	Spain	Guillermo Timoner
	2	Switzerland	Walter Bucher / Georges Grolimund
	3	Netherlands	Norbert Koch / Frits Wiersma

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Valentino Gasparella
	2	Italy	Sante Gaiardoni
	3	France	André Gruchet
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	BR Germany	Rudi Altig
	2	Italy	Mario Vallotto
	3	Switzerland	Willy stairs
Standing race (1 hour)	1	Netherlands	Arie van Houwelingen / Frits Wiersma
	2	France	Bernard Desconinck / Hugo Lorenzetti
	3	German Democratic Republic	Lothar Meister I / Fritz Erdenberger

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1959

See also

• 1959 UCI Road World Championships