1967 UCI Track World Championships

Morelon and Trentin faced each other in the sprint final and won silver together in tandem

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

Award ceremony of women's one's pursuit

discipline	space	country	athlete
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)

The podium in the pros' single pursuit

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)

The six medal winners in the tandem race

The award ceremony in the time trial

The Soviet four won gold in the team pursuit

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

• UCI Road World Championships 1967

Remarks

1. ↑ Nowadays the first rounds of a sprint tournament are knockout and single run.

literature

• Cycling , August 1967

Web links

Commons : UCI Rail World Championships 1967  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• stayer.de (PDF file; 17 kB)