UCI Road World Championships 1931

The UCI Road World Championships 1931 took place on August 26th after 1921 in Copenhagen for the second time .

Race course

Professional drivers and amateurs alike had to cover a distance of 168 kilometers. As in the previous year, 28-year-old Learco Guerra was another Italian winner in the professional category . He won with a lead of more than four minutes over the runner-up and needed an hourly average of 34.4 kilometers for the 168 kilometers. The best German professional driver was Ludwig Geyer in 10th place. The amateur race became the domain of northern European athletes from Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The amateur world champion was 29-year-old Henry Hansen from Denmark at 34.6 km / h . There are seven Northern Europeans among the top ten. August Brandes came in 11th as the best German amateur 19 minutes behind the winner.

Results

Professionals

space	athlete	country	time
1	Learco Guerra	ITA	4:53:43 h
2	Ferdinand Le Drogo	FRA	+ 4:37 min
3	Albert Büchi	SUI	+ 4:48 min
4th	Fabio Battesini	ITA	+ 5:57 min
5	Max Bulla	AUT	+ 6:23 min
6th	Alfredo Binda	ITA	+ 8:42 min
7th	Gaston Rebry	BEL	+ 9:59 min
8th	Jules Vanhevel	BEL	+ 13:46 min
9	Maurice De Waele	BEL	+ 14:21 min
10	Ludwig Geyer	GER	+ 14:46 min
11	Walter Blattmann	SUI	+ 18:41 min
12	Jean-Pierre Muller	LUX	+ 19:14 min
13	Cesar Bogaert	NED	+ 20:06 min

Amateurs

space	athlete	country	time
1	Henry Hansen	THE	4:50:53
2	Giuseppe Olmo	ITA	+ 6: .01 min
3	Leo Nielsen	THE	+ 6:40 min
4th	Bernard Britz	SWE	+ 7:50 min
5	Gosta Karlsson	SWE	+12: 36 min
6th	Gosta Bjorklund	SWE	+12: 36 min
7th	Frank Southall	GBR	+ 15:37 min
8th	Raoul Helberg	FIN	+ 16:51 min
9	Marco Cipriani	ITA	+ 17:05 min
10	Frode Sørensen	THE	+ 17:12 min
11	August Brandes	GER	+ 19:26 min
12	Fritz Saladin	SUI	+ 19:29 min
13	Rudolf Risch	GER	+ 21:29 min
14th	Robert Rigaux	FRA	+ 22:15 min

space	athlete	country	time
15th	René Le Grevès	FRA	+ 24:39 min
16	Karl Bossard	SUI	+ 25:22 min
17th	Ragnval Martinsen	NOR	+ 30:00 min
18th	Bela Jalicz	HUN	+ 31:42 min
19th	Thor Andreas Pörkö	FIN	+ 31:51 min
20th	Leonard Cave	GBR	+ 32:37 min
21st	Hannes Munter	FIN	+ 32:45 min
22nd	Karl Thallinger	AUT	+ 33:25 min
23	Josef Weissmayer	AUT	+ 33:32 min
24	Jean Minsart	BEL	+ 36:37 min
25th	Jan de Reus	NED	+ 38:38 min
26th	Karel Frič	TCH	+ 40:21 min
27	John P. Woodcock	IRL	+ 59:11 min
28	James Masterson		+1: 05:43 h

Web links

• UCI Road World Championships 1931 in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• www.cyclingfever.com