UCI Track World Championships 1971

The 61st UCI Track World Championships took place from 25 to 31 August 1971 on the "Velodromo Luigi Ganna " in the Franco Ossola stadium in Varese .

Eleven disciplines were held, two for women, three for male professionals and six for male amateurs. The cycling track, built in 1935, was renovated in 1968. Inside there was a football field on which the first division club FC Varese played their home games. The cement runway was 446 meters long; the stadium had 25,000 seats, 5,000 of which were covered. The runway itself was not covered, which led to numerous shifts due to rain.

The decision in the tandem race caused trouble at the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer : GDR athletes Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto won the third and decisive run , but were outclassed by the track inspectors for not following the route and the German starters Jürgen Barth and Rainer Müller were closed World champions declared. However, the Jury d'Appell reversed this decision.

Dominant nations of the world championships were Belgium and the USSR , each with four gold medals. There was only one cyclist from Austria at the start, the amateur stayer Norbert Hager .

On Sunday, August 29th, Cardinal Giovanni Colombo celebrated a mass for cyclists in the “Palazzetto dello Sport”.

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Galina Tsaryova
	2		Galina Ermolaeva
	3		Iva Zajíčková
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Tamara Garkuchina
	2		Keetie van Oosten-Hage
	3		Iva Zajíčková

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Leijn Loevesijn	11.53 (1) 11.09 (2)
	2		Robert Van Lancker
	3		Giordano Turrini	11.50 (1) - Disq. (2)
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Dirk Baert	6: 01.93 min
	2		Charly Grosskost	6: 03.73 min
	3		Hugh Porter	6: 11.13 min
Upright	1		Theo Verschueren / Norbert Koch
a run of 100 km	2		Jacob Oudkerk / Albertus de Graaf
	3		Domenico De Lillo / August Meuleman

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Daniel Morelon	11.14 (1) 11.23 (22)
	2		Sergei Kravtsov
	3		Ivan Kučírek	11.91 (2) Jury (3)
1000 m time trial	1		Eduard Rapp	1: 07.608 min
	2		Peder Pedersen	1: 07.685 min
	3		Pierre Trentin	1: 08.660 min
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Martín Emilio Rodríguez	4: 53.98 min
	2		Josef Fuchs	5:00:09 min
	3		Giacomo Bazzan	4: 55.63 min
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1		Pietro Algeri Giacomo Bazzan Giorgio Morbiato Luciano Borgognoni	4: 30.73 min
	2		Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter Uwe Unterwalder	4: 37.71 min
	3		Günter Haritz Udo Hempel Peter Vonhof Jürgen Colombo	4: 32.69 min
Tandem race	1		Jürgen Geschke / Werner Otto	10.70 (2), 10.71 (3)
	2		Jürgen Barth / Rainer Müller	11.13 (1)
	3		Pierre Trentin / Daniel Morelon	10.80 (2), 10.32 (3)
Standing race	1		Horst Gnas / Bruno Walrave
	2		Rainer Podlesch / Norbert Koch
	3		Albertus Boom / Joop Stakenburg

Medal table

	nation				total
1	Belgium	4th	2		6th
1	Soviet Union	4th	2		6th
3	France	2	1	3	6th
4th	Netherlands	1	3	2	6th
5	Italy	1	2	3	6th
6th	BR Germany	1	2	1	4th
7th	German Democratic Republic	1	1		2
8th	Colombia	1			1
9	Denmark		1		1
9	Switzerland		1		1

swell

• Cycling , August / September 1971

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1971