UCI Track World Championships 1962

The 52nd UCI Track World Championships took place from August 24th to 28th, 1962 on the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan .

The competition program was expanded to include the team pursuit by a further discipline to nine. The first world champion was the German four-wheeler who was trained by Karl Ziegler . At the award ceremony, the four German athletes were initially not supposed to receive rainbow jerseys because this was not intended for teams, but then some were brought in: “You only allow yourself that with Germans,” wrote cycling .

The World Championships took place without athletes from the “ Zone ”: the Italian government had refused their visas in protest against the construction of the Berlin Wall the year before. For the same reason, East German athletes had already been denied participation in the 1962 Alpine World Ski Championships in Chamonix and the Ice Hockey World Championships in Colorado Springs .

Although women took part in a World Track Championship for the fifth time, there was hardly any coverage of their races in cycling . Instead, the reporter Gerd Rensmann wrote : “There was less laughter than expected at the women's competitions, which of course are not very well received in a patriarchal country like Italy.” The journalist admitted: “From that. These girls were quick. "

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Valentina Maximowa
	2	Soviet Union	Irina Kirichenko
	3	United Kingdom	Jeanne Dunn
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1	United Kingdom	Beryl Burton
	2	Belgium	Yvonne Reynders
	3	Soviet Union	Lidiya Tichomirova

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Antonio Maspes
	2	Italy	Sante Gaiardoni
	3	Switzerland	Oscar Plattner
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	Netherlands	Henk Nijdam
	2	Italy	Leandro Faggin
	3	Netherlands	Peter Post
Standing race (100 km)	1	Spain	Guillermo Timoner / Felicien Van Ingelghem
	2	Belgium	Paul Depaepe / Albertus de Graaf
	3	Switzerland	Leo Wickihalder / Georges Wambst

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Sergio Bianchetto
	2	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto
	3	France	Pierre Trentin
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	Denmark	Kaj E. Jensen
	2	Belgium	Herman Van Loo
	3	Netherlands	Jacob Oudkerk
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	BR Germany	Ehrenfried Rudolph / Klaus May / Bernd Rohr / Lothar Claesges
	2	Denmark	Bent Hansen / Preben Isaksson / Kaj E. Jensen / Kurt vid Stein
	3	Soviet Union	Arnold Beljgard / Leonid Columbet / Stanislav Moskvin / Viktor Romanow
Standing race (1 hour)	1	Belgium	Romain De Loof / August Meuleman
	2	Switzerland	Heinz Läuppi / Georges Grolimund
	3	France	Robert Giscos / Felicien Van Ingelghem

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cycling , August 21, 1962
2. ^ Cycling , August 28, 1962

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1962

Web links

• stayer.de (PDF; 18 kB)

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1962