UCI Track World Championships 1968

The 58th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 26th to 29th, 1968 on the Velodrome in Rome and in early November in Montevideo . The competitions were separated for the first time: the five Olympic disciplines were held in Montevideo in the Velódromo Municipal , while the non-Olympic ones, such as the professional and the stayer races as well as the women's races, were held on the Velodromo Olimpico in Rome.

The Amateur World Championships in Montevideo took place shortly after the Olympic Games in Mexico and were the first on South American soil. Athletes from 15 associations took part, but not from West Germany, which is why the media coverage in Germany was also low.

The division of the rail world championships had been decided after the rail world championships in Amsterdam the year before, as the program with eleven disciplines had proven to be too extensive to run smoothly. In the coming Olympic years, the results of the Olympic Games were also counted as amateur world championships, until the separation between professionals and amateurs was abolished in 1992.

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Alla Bagiyanz
	2	Soviet Union	Irina Kirichenko
	3	Soviet Union	Galina Ermolaeva
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1	Soviet Union	Raisa Obodovskaya
	2	United Kingdom	Beryl Burton
	3	Netherlands	Keetie van Oosten-Hage

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto
	2	Belgium	Patrick Sercu
	3	Italy	Giovanni Pettenella
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	United Kingdom	Hugh Porter
	2	Denmark	Ole Knight
	3	Italy	Leandro Faggin
Standing race (100 km)	1	Belgium	Leo Proost / Norbert Koch
	2	Netherlands	Piet de Wit / Joop Stakenburg
	3	BR Germany	Ehrenfried Rudolph / Bruno Walrave

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Italy	Luigi Borghetti
	2	Denmark	Niels Fredborg
	3	Belgium	Robert Van Lancker
tandem	1	Italy	Bruno Gonzato / Dino Verzini
	2	Belgium	Daniel Goens / Robert Van Lancker
	3	Japan	Sanji Inoue / Hideo Madarame
Time trial	1	Denmark	Niels Fredborg
	2	United States	Jack Simes
	3	Italy	Gianni Sartori
One's pursuit	1	Denmark	Mogens Frey
(4000 m)	2	Switzerland	Xaver Kurmann
	3	Italy	Lorenzo Bosisio
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	Italy	Cipriano Chemello / Lorenzo Bosisio / Giorgio Morbiato / Luigi Roncaglia
	2	Argentina	Carlos Alvarez Seidanes / Juan Alves / Gordon Ernesto Contreras / Juan-Alberto Merlos
	3	Sweden	Erik Pettersson / Tomas Pettersson / Gösta Pettersson / Josef Ripfel
Standing race	1	Italy	Giuseppe Grassi / August Meuleman
(1 hour)	2	Netherlands	Cees Stam / Norbert Koch
	3	Switzerland	Beni Herger / Bruno Walrave

Remarks

1. ↑ see also Fåglum brothers

literature

• Cycling , September / October / November 1968

Web links

• stayer.de (PDF; 18 kB)

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1968