UCI Track World Championships 1991

Michael Hübner from Chemnitz (here at the GDR championship in 1989) won the Keirin World Championship in Stuttgart.

The 81st UCI Track World Championships took place from August 13th to 18th, 1991 on the Velodrome in the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle in Stuttgart . 53 nations were at the start.

For the first time in decades, an all-German team competed at this World Cup, since in December 1990 the regional cycling associations of the new federal states had joined the Federation of German Cyclists . This union brought the Germans six gold , four silver and one bronze medal in front of a home crowd .

In the amateur sprint, the later multiple German Olympic champion Jens Fiedler won his first title ahead of his teammate Bill Huck after Lutz Heßlich retired . Michael Hübner from Chemnitz disappointed the professional sprinters in a tough competition characterized by doping cases, but was able to rehabilitate himself in the Keirin and secure his fourth world title. Jens Lehmann from Leipzig won his first world championship title in the single and team pursuit. The four-wheeler also set a world record in front of 5000 enthusiastic spectators.

The career of the later six-day star Bruno Risi also began in Stuttgart when he won his first world championship title in the points race. Another popular six-day rider, Danny Clark, became the pro stator world champion shortly before his 40th birthday.

In the women's category, Ingrid Haringa from the Netherlands was able to secure two titles, in the sprint (ahead of the German Annett Neumann) and in the points race, despite a fall with 17 laps to go.

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Netherlands	Ingrid Haringa
	2	Germany	Annett Neumann
	3	United States	Connie Paraskevin-Young
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1	Germany	Petra Rossner
	2	United States	Janie Eickhoff
	3	France	Marion Clignet
Points race	1	Netherlands	Ingrid Haringa
	2	Belgium	Kristel Werckx
	3	United States	Janie Eickhoff

Men (professionals)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1
	2	France	Fabrice Colas
	3
Keirin	1	Germany	Michael Huebner
	2	Italy	Claudio Golinelli
	3	France	Fabrice Colas
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1	France	Francis Moreau
	2	United Kingdom	Shaun Wallace
	3	United Kingdom	Colin Sturgess
Points race (50 km)	1	Soviet Union	Vyacheslav Yekimov
	2	France	Francis Moreau
	3	Netherlands	Peter Pieters
Standing race (1 hour)	1	Australia	Danny Clark (behind Bruno Walrave )
	2	Switzerland	Peter Steiger (behind Ueli Luginbühl )
	3	Switzerland	Arno Küttel (behind René Aebi )

Men (amateurs)

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Germany	Jens Fiedler
	2	Germany	Bill Huck
	3	Australia	Gary Neiwand
Time trial (1000 m)	1	Spain	Jose Manuel Moreno
	2	Germany	Jens Happy
	3	Trinidad and Tobago	Gene Samuel
tandem	1	Germany	Emanuel Raasch / Eyk Pokorny
	2	Czechoslovakia	Lubomír Hargaš / Pavel Buráň
	3	France	Frédéric Lancien / Denis Lemyre
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	Germany	Jens Lehmann
	2	Germany	Michael Glöckner
	3	Denmark	Jan Bo Petersen
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	Germany	Michael Glöckner / Andreas Walzer / Jens Lehmann / Stefan Steinweg
	2	Soviet Union	Yevgeny Berzin / Dmitri Neljubin / Vadim Kravchenko / Wladislav Bobrik
	3	Australia	Brett Aitken / Stuart O'Grady / Stephen McGlede / Shaun O'Brien
Points race (50 km)	1	Switzerland	Bruno Risi
	2	Australia	Stephen McGlede
	3	Denmark	Jan Bo Petersen
Standing race (50 km)	1	Austria	Roland Königshofer (behind Karl Igl )
	2	Italy	David Solari (behind Walter Corradin )
	3	Germany	Carsten Podlesch (behind Dieter Durst )

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

Remarks

1. ^ Carey Hall, Australia, disqualified for doping.
2. ↑ Stephen Pate, Australia, disqualified for doping.

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1991