1963 UCI Track World Championships

The 53 UCI Track Cycling World Championships found from 1 to 7 August 1963 at the Velodrome in Rocourt instead.

The dominant nation at these world championships in their own country was Belgium with a total of four world championship titles out of a total of nine.

The women's races, which were held for the seventh time, continued to be viewed with skepticism by the German magazine Radsport : “Women's competitions may be attractive in some areas, for example in art driving; they are not in racing. Because here in most cases Venus has forgotten to send a ray of her favor to her biking colleagues. ” About the world champion Beryl Burton , whose family - husband and children - had traveled, a journalist remarked ironically: “ Father makes the beds, and Mother rides a bike. Wonderful! "

The new amateur sprint world champion, Patrick Sercu, became famous : “A new man, a new star triumphed in the aviation sky; not a 'one-day fly', but an athlete who, thanks to his innate talent and a sporty lifestyle, promises to continue to make a name for himself. "

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Galina Ermolaeva
	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	Lyubov Kozhetova

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Sante Gaiardoni
	2	Italy	Antonio Maspes
	3	Belgium	Jos De Bakker
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	Italy	Leandro Faggin
	2	Netherlands	Peter Post
	3	Netherlands	Henk Nijdam
Standing race (100 km)	1	Belgium	Leo Proost / Emile Vandenbosch
	2	Belgium	Paul Depaepe / Otto Faltin
	3	France	Robert Varnajo / Hugo Lorenzetti

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Belgium	Patrick Sercu
	2	Italy	Sergio Bianchetto
	3	France	Pierre Trentin
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	Belgium	Jean Walschaerts
	2	Soviet Union	Stanislav Moskvin
	3	United Kingdom	Hugh Porter
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	Soviet Union	Arnold Belgard / Sergei Teretschenkow / Stanislaw Moskwin / Wiktor Romanow
	2	BR Germany	Lothar Claesges / Klemens Großimlinghaus / Karl-Heinz Henrichs / Ernst Streng
	3	Denmark	Deut Hansen / Preben Isaksson Leif Larsen / Kurt vid Stein
Standing race (1 hour)	1	Belgium	Romain De Loof / August Meuleman
	2	BR Germany	Karl-Heinz Matthes / Otto Faltin
	3	Switzerland	Ueli Luginbühl / Georges Grolimund

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1963

literature

• Cycling , August 1963

Web links

• stayer.de (PDF; 18 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cycling , August 13, 1963