UCI Track World Championships 1978

GDR driver Lothar Thoms became the amateur world champion in the 1000 m time trial.

The 68th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 16 to 21, 1978 in the Olympic Cycle Stadium in Munich's Olympic Park . 36 nations were at the start.

These title fights were dominated by the Dutch drivers and those from both German states; this ended the traditional superiority of the French and Italians for the time being. For the hosts it was particularly disappointing that the four of the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer only finished fifth in the year after the resignation of the national coach Gustav Kilian ; the GDR won gold. For the GDR, on the other hand, the fifth place of their outstanding sprint talent Lutz Heßlich was disappointing. In the amateur standers category , Rainer Podlesch from Berlin won his first of two world championship titles behind his pacemaker Dieter Durst .

In the professional sprint , Munich's Dieter Berkmann surprisingly took second place behind the outstanding Japanese Kōichi Nakano and was the first German to succeed after Albert Richter in 1935. The successful German road professional Gregor Braun returned to the track on the occasion of this World Cup on home soil and secured the title in the single pursuit . In the professional standing category , Wilfried Peffgen from Cologne won his second of a total of three world championship titles behind his pacemaker Dieter Durst. With two world championship titles, Dieter Durst was the most successful athlete at these UCI track world championships.

There was a controversial decision in the women's singles pursuit: The final was played between the two Dutch women Keetie van Oosten-Hage and Anne Riemersma . The sponges on the velodrome , which are supposed to ensure that the riders keep to their driving line, came loose, and the adhesive tape got entangled in the rear wheel of the van Osten-Haage's machine. The jury then completed the race 1,000 meters from the finish and declared her world champion. Riemersma, who was convinced that she could still have caught up, felt cheated out of the world title.

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Galina Tsaryova
	2		Sue Novara
	3		Iva Zajíčková
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Cornelia van Oosten-Hage
	2		Anne Riemersma
	3		Luigina Bissoli

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Kōichi Nakano
	2		Dieter Berkmann
	3		Yoshinobu Sugano
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Gregor Braun
	2		Roy Schuiten
	3		Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke
Standing race (1 hour)	1		Wilfried Peffgen (behind Dieter Durst )
	2		Martin Venix (behind Norbert Koch )
	3		Cees Stam (behind Bruno Walrave )

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Anton Tkáč
	2		Emanuel Raasch
	3		Christian Drescher
Time trial (1000 m)	1		Lothar Thoms
	2		Jocelyn Lovell
	3		Rainer Hönisch
tandem	1		Vladimír Vačkář / Miroslav Vymazal
	2		Jerry Ash / Leigh Barczewski
	3		Lau Veldt / Sjaak Pieters
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Detlef Macha
	2		not forgiven
	3		Uwe Unterwalder
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1		Matthias Wiegand / Volker Winkler / Gerald Mortag / Uwe Unterwalder
	2		Igor Pelipenko / Vasily Erlich / Witali Petrakow / Vladimir Osokin
	3		Hans Känel / Walter Baumgartner / Robert Dill-Bundi / Urs Freuler
Points race (50 km)	1		Noël Dejonckheere
	2		Walter Baumgartner
	3		Jean-Jacques Rebière
Standing race (50 km)	1		Rainer Podlesch (behind Dieter Durst )
	2		Mattheus Pronk (behind Norbert Koch )
	3		Martin Rietveldt (behind Joop Stakenburg )

literature

Werner Ruttkus / Wolfgang Schoppe / Hans-Alfred Roth : In the shine and shadow of the rainbow. A look back at the cycling world championships in racing, which have been held throughout Germany since 1895 , Berlin 1999

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1978

Remarks

1. ↑ Anne Riemersma on wielrennensurhuisterveen.nl
2. ↑ Norbert Dürpisch (GDR) was disqualified because of positive doping results for ephedrine. The athlete had taken a cold medicine.