UCI Road World Championships 1934

Kees Pellenaars is celebrated after winning the amateur title.

The 1934 UCI Road World Championships took place in Leipzig on August 18 .

Racing action

The route led over a circuit of 9.4 kilometers, which the professionals had to ride 24 times. The circuit was quite flat and was called the “disk wood course” after a small piece of forest. The amateurs drove the lap 12 times.

In the professional road race, 26 drivers were at the start, 15 of whom made it to the finish. The Belgian Karel Kaers won the sprint race and became the youngest world champion to date at the age of 20 years, two months and 15 days. Until then he had mainly achieved success in the amateur and junior class. In 1934 he achieved an hourly average of 37.994 kilometers. The best German was Gerhard Huschke from Berlin, son of Adolf Huschke and father of Thomas Huschke , in fourth place. The other two German starters were Ludwig Geyer (12th) and Kurt Stöpel (13th). Stöpel, like the two-time Tour winner Antonin Magne , had been pushed into a ditch in the eagerness of the final sprint, only reached the destination in an accompanying car due to a defective wheel, but was placed in 13th place.

The 18-year-old Dutchman Kees Pellenaars became world champion of the amateurs . He drove an average of 41.5 km / h. None of the German starters finished.

Results

Pros (225.6 km)
space	athlete	country	time
1	Karel Kaers	BEL	5:56:15 h
2	Learco Guerra	ITA	5:56:15 h
3	Gustave Danneels	BEL	5:56:15 h
4th	Gerhard Huschke	GER	same time
5	Gerrit van de Ruit	NED
6th	Paul Egli	SUI
7th	Josy Kraus	LUX
8th	Thijs van Oers	NED
9	Hans Gilgen	SUI
10	Mariano Canardo	ESP
11	Marinus Valentijn	NED
12	Ludwig Geyer	GER
13	Kurt Stöpel	GER
14th	Antonin Magne	FRA
15th	Vasco Bergamaschi	ITA	+ 1:45 min

Amateurs (114.4 km)
space	athlete	country	time
1	Kees Pellenaars	NED	2:43:02 h
2	André Deforge	FRA	unknown
3	Paul-Emile André	BEL
4th	Charles Holland	GBR
5	Werner Grundahl-Hansen	DNK
6th	Jean Goujon	FRA
7th	Percy Stallard	GBR
8th	Frozen Sorensen	DNK
9	head	TCH

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 1934 in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• www.cyclingfever.com

See also

• UCI track world championships 1934