UCI track world championships 1970

The 60th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 6th to 12th, 1970 on the Velodrome of the Saffron Lane Sports Center in Leicester .

These track world championships were the third to be held in Great Britain, after 1897 in Glasgow and 1904 in Liverpool . The World Championships were officially opened on August 6th by Prime Minister Edward Heath . In his speech, he recalled that it was a Briton, James Moore, who won the world's first cycle race in Saint-Cloud near Paris in 1869 . On the fourth day of the World Cup, a Sunday, the British Prince Consort Prince Philip visited the competitions.

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Galina Tsaryova
	2	Soviet Union	Galina Ermolaeva
	3	Soviet Union	Valentina Sawina
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	Australia	Gordon Johnson
	2	Italy	Sante Gaiardoni
	3	Netherlands	Leijn Loevesijn
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Hugh Porter
	2	Italy	Lorenzo Bosisio
	3	France	Charly Grosskost
Standing race (100 km)	1	Germany	Ehrenfried Rudolph / Bruno Walrave
	2	Belgium	Theo Verschueren
	3	Netherlands	Piet de Wit

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	France	Daniel Morelon
	2	Denmark	Peder Pedersen
	3	France	Gérard Quintyn
tandem	1	Germany	Jürgen Barth , Rainer Müller
	2	German Democratic Republic	Jürgen Geschke , Werner Otto
	3	France	Gérard Quintyn , Daniel Morelon
Time trial	1	Denmark	Niels Fredborg
(1000 meters)	2	New Zealand	Harry Kent
	3	Czech Republic	Anton Tkáč
One's pursuit	1	Switzerland	Xaver Kurmann
(4000 m)	2	United Kingdom	Ian Hallam
	3	Soviet Union	Viktor Bykov
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	Germany	Günter Haritz / Udo Hempel / Peter Vonhof / Ernst Claußmeyer
	2	German Democratic Republic	Thomas Huschke / Heinz Richter / Herbert Richter / Manfred Ulbricht
	3	Soviet Union	Stanislav Moskvin / Vladimir Kusnetsov / Viktor Bykov / Boris Semyonez
Standing race	1	Netherlands	Cees Stam / Joop Stakenburg
(1 hour)	2	Germany	Horst Gnas
	3	Spain	Antonio Cerda

Remarks

1. ↑ In the qualification Bernhard Gruner drove instead of Manfred Ulbricht . (Source: Der Radsportler, August 4th, 1970, page 9, For the first time a GDR foursome advanced to the World Cup final , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR )

literature

• Cycling , August 1970

Web links

• stayer.de (PDF; 18 kB)

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1970