UCI track world championships 1960

GDR postage stamp for the world championships

Stayer race at the 1960 World Track Championships

The 50th UCI-Bahn World Championships took place from August 3rd to 14th, 1960 in Leipzig on the Alfred-Rosch-Kampfbahn and the Radrennbahn in the Sportforum in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) ( standing race ). 34 nations were at the start. At the same time, the road world championships were held on the Sachsenring . It was the first to take place in the GDR.

The professional sprint was top-class with three world champions, the Italian Antonio Maspes, the Swiss Oscar Plattner and the Dutch Jan Derksen . Maspes won his fourth world title ahead of Plattner, Derksen, however, had to be content with fourth place behind Belgian De Bakker. In the single pursuit , Rudi Altig achieved his first World Cup triumph as a professional. There was a double success in the GDR among the amateur standers. The Mallorcan Guillermo Timoner won his third professional title in front of 20,000 spectators.

There were eight disciplines on the program, two of which were for women. It was the third time you took part in the World Railroad Championships; riders from six nations were represented.

Since in the past there had always been upsets due to alleged wrong judgments, a new system of flash lamps was used for the first time in the pursuit of individuals , which responded to the start and finish.

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	Belgium	Marie-Thérèse Naessens
	3	German Democratic Republic	Andrea Elle

Men (professionals)

Rudi Altig became world champion in the single pursuit in 1960.

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Antonio Maspes
	2		Oscar Plattner
	3		Jos De Bakker
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Rudi Altig
	2		Willy stairs
	3		Ercole Baldini
Standing race (100 km)	1		Guillermo Timoner (behind August Meuleman )
	2		Martin Wierstra (behind Felicien Van Ingelghem )
	3		Norbert Koch (behind Johannes van Rooy )

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Sante Gaiardoni
	2		Leo Sterckx
	3		Dave Handley
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Marcel Delattre
	2		Henk Nijdam
	3		Siegfried Koehler
Standing race (1 h)	1		Georg Stoltze (behind Fritz Erdenberger )
	2		Siegfried Wustrow (behind Holm Rommel )
	3		Hendrik Buis (behind Albertus de Graaf )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cycling , August 29, 1961

literature

• Werner Ruttkus , Wolfgang Schoppe , Hans-Alfred Roth : In the shine and shadow of the rainbow. A look back at the cycling world championships in racing, which have been held throughout Germany since 1895 , Berlin 1999

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1960