UCI Track World Championships 1965

The 55th UCI Track World Championships took place from September 6th to 12th, 1965 on the Anoeta Velodrome near San Sebastian . It was the first track world championship that took place in Spain.

The races on the open cycling track had to be postponed so often because of continuous rain that it was already considered to cancel the competitions entirely in order to be held in an indoor track in November. But thanks to an originally planned day of rest, it was finally possible to finish the races as planned.

The German delegation complained about their accommodation: there was talk of vermin up to the collapse of ceilings. The journalists of the cycling sport had to buy rubber boots because the inside of the track was like a mud desert. The real annoyance, however, contributed to the fact that the telephone lines "to Europe" broke down more often.

On the last day of the competitions, which were otherwise only moderately attended, General Franco was also present in the stadium in addition to 7,000 spectators . The hosts won two titles: Guillermo Timoner was the sixth time world champion of professional upright , his compatriot Miguel Mas won in the amateurs. After a run in the professional sprint between the Belgian Patrick Sercu and the Italian Antonio Maspes , there were unsightly scenes: Maspes fell during the race, his supporters blamed Sercu for this and attacked him verbally and physically. When Sercu tried to defend himself, stewards intervened. The cycling wrote embarrassed: "That the ugly scene was happening before the eyes of General Franco, the order should be mentioned half."

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Valentina Sawina
	2	Soviet Union	Galina Yermolayeva
	3	German Democratic Republic	Karin Stuewe
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1	Belgium	Yvonne Reynders
	2	German Democratic Republic	Hannelore Mattig
	3	Soviet Union	Aino Puronena

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto
	2	Belgium	Patrick Sercu
	3	Australia	Ron Baensch
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	Italy	Leandro Faggin
	2	Belgium	Ferdi Bracke
	3	BR Germany	Dieter Kemper
Standing race (100 km)	1	Spain	Guillermo Timoner / August Meuleman
	2	Belgium	Romain De Loof / Hugo Lorenzetti
	3	Netherlands	Jacob Oudkerk / Norbert Koch

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Omar Pchakadze
	2	Italy	Giordano Turrini
	3	France	Daniel Morelon
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	Netherlands	Tiemen Groen
	2	Soviet Union	Stanislav Moskvin
	3	Denmark	Preben Isaksson
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	Soviet Union	Stanislaw Moskvin / Sergei Teretschenkow / Michail Koljuschow / Leonid Wukolow
	2	Italy	Cipriano Chemello / Vincenzo Mantovani / Aroldo Spadoni / Luigi Roncaglia
	3	Czechoslovakia	Jiří Daler / Milan Puzrla / Frantisek Rezak / Milos Jelinek
Standing race (1 hour)	1	Spain	Miguel Mas / Laval
	2	Belgium	Etienne Van Der Vieren / August Meuleman
	3	France	Alain Marechal / Hugo Lorenzetti

literature

• Cycling , September 1965

Web links

• stayer.de (PDF; 18 kB)

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1965

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cycling , January 18, 1966