UCI Road World Championships 1937

The 1937 UCI Road World Championships were held for the third time in Copenhagen on August 23 .

Race course

The 24-year-old Belgian Eloi Meulenberg needed 37.2 km / h to become world champion with professional drivers after 297.5 kilometers. It was the longest route to date on which a professional world champion was determined. It led over a circular course of 8.5 kilometers. Meulenberg won in the sprint from a five-man leading group, which at the finish had a lead of over six minutes over the main field. The German Emil Kijewski won the 2nd place in the sprint . The amateurs had to cover 204 kilometers. Here, too, there was a sprint victory, which the Italian driver Adolfo Leoni achieved with an hourly average of 35.2 kilometers. With third place, Fritz Scheller also achieved an excellent result for Germany.

Results

Professionals

space	athlete	country	time
1	Eloi Meulenberg	BEL	7:59:48 h
2	Emil Kijewski	GER	7:59:48 h
3	Paul Egli	SUI	7:59:48 h
4th	Jean Majerus	LUX	7:59:48 h
5	Georges Speicher	FRA	7:59:48 h
6th	Aad van Amsterdam	NED	+ 6:14 min
7th	Michel D'Hooghe	BEL	+ 6:14 min
8th	Otto Weckerling	GER	+ 6:14 min

Amateurs

space	athlete	country	time
1	Adolfo Leoni	ITA	5:48:20 h
2	Frode Sørensen	DNK	5:48:20 h
3	Fritz Scheller	GER	5:48:20 h
4th	Joop Demmenie	NED	5:48:20 h
5	Giovanni Bisio	ITA	+ 1:00 min
6th	Jean Bolliger	SUI
7th	Ingvar Ericsson	SWE
8th	Ray Jones	GBR
9	Giordano Cottur	ITA
10	Herbert Hackebeil	GER
11	Lothar Sztrakati	AUT
12	Paul Couderc	FRA

space	athlete	country	time
13	Henk de Hoog	NED	+ 1:00 min
14th	Théodore Perret	SUI
15th	Henri Dumoulin	BEL
16	Kurt Ott	SUI
17th	Martin Lundin	SWE
18th	Zoltan Kausi	HUN
19th	Arne Berg	SWE
20th	Albert Carapezzi	FRA	+ 6:26 min
21st	Lucien Bidinger	LUX
22nd	Bolesław Napierała	POLE
23	Ferenc Eles	HUN
24	Days Møller	DNK	+ 9:23 min

Web links

• www.radsportseiten.net
• www.the-sports.org