1966 UCI Track World Championships

The German Dieter Kemper took third place in the pros' single pursuit.

The 56th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 29 to September 4, 1966 in the cycle track at Frankfurt's Waldstadion . 32 nations were at the start. At the same time, the UCI Road World Championships were held on the Nürburgring and in Cologne .

For the Track Cycling World Championships in Frankfurt, the program was expanded to include two more disciplines, the 1000 m time trial and the tandem race , to eleven. Italy proved to be the dominant nation of these championships among the professionals, above all Leandro Faggin, who had already become world champion among the amateurs in Cologne in 1954 and won a gold medal with the four-four at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne .

The great winning streak of the French sprinter Daniel Morelon, who was eight times world champion and twice Olympic champion, began in Frankfurt. The short-term disciplines were dominated by the French drivers, whose coach was former world champion Louis Gérardin .

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Irina Kirichenko
	2		Valentina Sawina
	3		Heidi Blobner
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Beryl Burton
	2		Yvonne Reynders
	3		Hannelore Mattig

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Giuseppe Beghetto
	2		Ron Baensch
	3		Sante Gaiardoni
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Leandro Faggin
	2		Ferdinand Bracke
	3		Dieter Kemper
Standing race (100 km)	1		Romain De Loof (behind Hugo Lorenzetti )
	2		Ehrenfried Rudolph (behind Georges Grolimund )
	3		Leo Proost (behind Norbert Koch )

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Daniel Morelon
	2		Pierre Trentin
	3		Omar Pchakadze
Time trial (1000 m)	1		Pierre Trentin
	2		Paul Seye
	3		Frans van der Ruit
tandem	1		Daniel Morelon / Pierre Trentin
	2		Klaus Kobusch / Martin Stenzel
	3		Giordano Turrini / Walter Gorini
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Tiemen Groen
	2		Jiří Daler
	3		Giorgio Ursi
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1		Antonio Castello / Cipriano Chemello / Gino Pancini / Luigi Roncaglia
	2		Karl-Heinz Henrichs / Herbert Honz / Jürgen Kißner / Karl Link
	3		Viktor Bykow / Michail Kolchujew / Stanislaw Moskwin / Leonid Wukulow
Standing race (1 hour)	1		Piet de Wit (behind Norbert Koch )
	2		Bert Romijn (behind Bruno Walrave )
	3		Christian Giscos (behind Laval)

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 1966