UCI Road World Championships 1936

The 1936 UCI Road World Championships took place on September 5th in Bern, Switzerland.

Race course

The professional drivers had to cover 218.4 kilometers, the amateurs 145 kilometers. In the professional category, Frenchman Antonin Magne won , finishing a solo trip with a lead of over nine minutes. He achieved an hourly average of 37.1 kilometers. The German driver Georg Umbenhauer came in 9th in the main field that was beaten off . In the amateurs category, the Swiss won a double thanks to Edgar Buchwalder and Gottlieb Weber . Buchwalder won the sprint from a mass finish by eleven seconds. He achieved an hourly average of 36.4 kilometers. Fritz Scheller came in 9th as the best German amateur, 55 seconds behind.

Results

Professionals

space	athlete	country	time
1	Antonin Magne	FRA	5:53:32 h
2	Aldo Bini	ITA	+ 9:27 min
3	Theofiel Middelkamp	NED
4th	Paul Egli	SUI
5	Werner Grondhal Hansen	DNK
6th	Edward Vissers	BEL
7th	Gino Bartali	ITA
8th	Albert van Schendel	NED
9	Georg Umbenhauer	GER

Amateurs

space	athlete	country	time
1	Edgar Buchwalder	SUI	3:58:01
2	Gottlieb Weber	SUI	+ 0:11 min
3	Pietro Favalli	ITA	+ 0:47 min
4th	Guy Lapébie	FRA	+ 0:55 min
5	Knud Jacobsen	DNK
6th	Glauco Servadei	ITA
7th	Yunichi Demija	JPN
8th	Paul Frantz	LUX
9	Fritz Scheller	GER
10	Robert Charpentier	FRA
11	Kurt Ott	SUI
12	Marcello Spadolini	ITA
13	Paul Couderc	FRA

space	athlete	country	time
14th	Frans Neuens	LUX	+ 0:55 min
15th	Jacques Majerus	LUX
16	Emil Schöpflin	GER
17th	Oskar Augusti	AUT
18th	Hans Leutelt	TCH
19th	Josef Losek	TCH
20th	Robert Dorgebray	FRA
21st	Eugen Sehnalek	AUT
22nd	Walter Löber	GER
23	Fritz Ruland	GER
24	Rudy Houtsch	LUX
25th	Arne Petersen	DNK
26th	Janos Bognar	HUN

Web links

• UCI Road World Championships 1936 in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• www.cyclingfever.com