1967 UCI Track World Championships
The 57th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 22nd to 27th, 1967 on the Velodrome in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. There were eleven disciplines on the program. There were no German women at the start for the women.
In the run-up to the event, the hosting of the world championships was on the brink: two days before the start of the World Cup, there were heated discussions at a preparatory conference of the Union Cycliste Internationale about whether the GDR flag should be hoisted and the GDR anthem played in the event of a victory. The Dutch association president had promised both, but the government forbade this. The representatives of the GDR even called for the World Cup to be canceled if this was not assured, but finally bowed.
The Track World Cup was the first in which doping tests were systematically carried out. One of the first drivers who tested positive was Dieter Kemper from Dortmund ; there were 14 in total.
Cycling described the organization of the event as chaos, as the process was very slow with long breaks and the competition days were therefore up to twelve hours long. On the last day, the 25,000 spectators vented their displeasure with long breaks between the races with a shrill concert of whistles. Part of the culprit in the lengthy program was primarily the lengthy qualification of the sprinters, who had to qualify from the first run on three-way runs, so that with 48 participants there were 64 runs.
The program, which has become very extensive, prompted the UCI to organize the World Championships for amateurs and professionals at different locations from the following year, and the Amateur World Championships in the Olympic years as close as possible to the location of the Olympic Games. In addition, the magazine Radsport complained of a lack of breadth among professional athletes.
Results
Women
discipline | space | country | athlete |
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sprint | 1 | Soviet Union | Valentina Sawina |
2 | Soviet Union | Irina Kirichenko | |
3 | Soviet Union | Galina Ermolaeva | |
Single pursuit (3000 m) | 1 | Soviet Union | Tamara Garkuchina |
2 | Soviet Union | Raisa Obodovskaya | |
3 | United Kingdom | Beryl Burton |
Men (professionals)
discipline | space | country | athlete |
---|---|---|---|
sprint | 1 | Belgium | Patrick Sercu |
2 | Italy | Giuseppe Beghetto | |
3 | Italy | Angelo Damiano | |
Single pursuit (5000 m) | 1 | Netherlands | Tiemen Groen |
2 | United Kingdom | Hugh Porter | |
3 | Italy | Leandro Faggin | |
Standing race (100 km) | 1 | Belgium | Leo Proost / Norbert Koch |
2 | Belgium | Romain De Loof / Hugo Lorenzetti | |
3 | Italy | Domenico De Lillo / August Meuleman |
Men (amateurs)
discipline | space | country | athlete |
---|---|---|---|
sprint | 1 | France | Daniel Morelon |
2 | France | Pierre Trentin | |
3 | Italy | Luigi Borghetti | |
tandem | 1 | Italy | Bruno Gonzato / Dino Verzini |
2 | France | Pierre Trentin / Daniel Morelon | |
3 | Belgium | Daniel Goens / Robert Van Lancker | |
Time trial | 1 | Denmark | Niels Fredborg |
2 | Poland | Waclaw Latocha | |
3 | Trinidad and Tobago | Roger Gibbon | |
One's pursuit | 1 | Netherlands | Gert Bongers |
(4000 m) | 2 | Denmark | Mogens Frey |
3 | Czechoslovakia | Jiří Daler | |
Team pursuit (4000 m) |
1 | Soviet Union |
Stanislav Moskwin / Michail Koljuschow / Wiktor Bykow / Dzintars Latsis |
2 | Italy |
Cipriano Chemello / Antonio Castello / Luigi Roncaglia / Gino Pancini |
|
3 | BR Germany |
Karl-Heinz Henrichs / Rainer Podlesch / Jürgen Kißner / Karl Link |
|
Standing race (1 hour) | 1 | Netherlands | Piet de Wit / Norbert Koch |
2 | Soviet Union | Michail Markow / Bruno Walrave | |
3 | Netherlands | Andries Helsloot / Frits Wiersma |
See also
Remarks
- ↑ Nowadays the first rounds of a sprint tournament are knockout and single run.
literature
- Cycling , August 1967
Web links
- stayer.de (PDF file; 17 kB)