UCI Road World Championships 1928

The 1928 UCI Road World Championships were held in Budapest on August 16 . It was the second road world championships with professional participation. Georges Ronsse from Belgium became professional world champion , while Italian Allegro Grandi won the amateurs .

Race course

The 182-kilometer race for the professionals, of which only 16 were at the start, led from Budapest through the Puszta and back. The drivers suffered from heat and dust at 35 degrees in the shade. After 40 kilometers, the two Belgians Georges Ronsse and Jules Vanhevel pulled away. However, the two favorite Italians Alfredo Binda and Costante Girardengo did not follow them, but fought each other. Finally both of them gave up in exasperation; the Italian cycling federation then imposed a (later shortened) suspension of six months against her for behavior that was harmful to the association. Van Hevel fell after colliding with a cow and also gave up, so that Ronsse finally crossed the finish line with a lead of over 17 minutes; A driver has never been able to gain a greater lead at a World Championship. Second in the race was the German Herbert Nebe , who later reported that he had been threatened by Fritz von Opel if he continued to drive because, from his point of view, he was not driving the right material, but diamond . The later world champion Ronsse, on the other hand, drove the “right material”, an Opel bike with a torpedo freewheel hub . There was also the suspicion that Ronsse and his compatriot Vanhevel had ridden in the support vehicle from the Opel company or had attached themselves to the car (which could also be an explanation for the large lead). Because of these disputes, Nebe's contract with Diamant was not renewed in early 1929; later he received severance pay after a lawsuit. Third place went to the German Bruno Wolke , who actually only started to represent his sick brother and amateur vice world champion Rudolf . Of the 16 starters, only eight riders finished.

Results

Professionals (182 km)
space	athlete	country	time
1	Georges Ronsse	BEL	6:20:10 h
2	Herbert Nebe	GER	+ 19:43 min
3	Bruno Cloud	GER	+ 19:43 min
4th	Jef Dervaes	BEL	+ 36:13 min
5	Walter Cap	AUT
6th	Max Bulla	AUT
7th	Otto Cap	AUT
8th	Ferdinand Le Drogo	FRA	+ 42:26 min

Amateurs (192 km)
space	athlete	country	time
1	Allegro Grandi	ITA	6:55:09 h
2	Michele Mara	ITA	6:55:09 h
3	Jean Aerts	BEL	+ 13:45 min
4th	Ladislav Vida	HUN	+ 13:45 min
5	André Aumerlé	FRA	+ 17.49 min
6th	Remigo Saavedra	ARG	+ 21.32 min
7th	Bernhard rod corner	GER	+ 21.42 min
8th	Bienhy	HUN	+ 22.24 min
9	Anton Vydell	AUT	+ 24.45 min
10	Godlieb	SUI	+ 25.10 min
11	Croocyte	YUG	+ 26.05 min
12	Sibelbauer	AUT	+ 33.50 min
13	Kosek	GER	+ 43.37 min

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , p. 14ff.

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Wolfgang Schoppe / Werner Ruttkus : In the shine and shadow of the rainbow. Self-published, 2005, ISBN 3-00-005315-8

Web links

• UCI Road World Championships 1928 in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• www.cyclingfever.com

See also

• UCI track world championships 1928