UCI Road World Championships 1949

The 1948 UCI Road World Championships were held in Copenhagen on August 20th and 21st . It was the fourth road world championships that were held in the Danish capital.

Racing action

The amateur drivers opened the road world championship on Saturday, August 20, over a distance of 193.6 kilometers on an 8.8-kilometer circuit. With an average speed of 39.4 km / h, the 26-year-old Dutchman Henk Faanhof won the sprint ahead of Henri Kass from Luxembourg .

On Sunday 35 professional drivers from 17 nations started the 290 kilometer race. On the circuit, 33 laps had to be mastered in rainy weather. In the 33rd lap a top group of five formed, among them the current Tour de France winner Fausto Coppi . After 25 laps, the group consisted of only four drivers who finally decided to win among themselves at the finish. The fastest sprint was 24-year-old Belgian Rik Van Steenbergen , who achieved an hourly average of 38.01 km / h. Of the 35 riders who started, only 22 made it to the finish.

German drivers were not allowed even four years after the end of the Second World War . Although the national association of German Cyclists was re-established the year before, it was not yet a member of the Union Cycliste Internationale, the world cycling association .

Results

Professionals (290 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Rik Van Steenbergen	BEL	7:34:44 h
2	Ferdy Kübler	SUI	7:34:44 h
3	Fausto Coppi	ITA	7:34:44 h
4th	Albéric Schotte	BEL	+ 3:02 min
5	Gerrit Schulte	NED	+ 3:25 min
6th	Ernst Stettler	SUI	+ 3:28 min
7th	Bim Diederich	LUX	+ 3:31 min
8th	Camille Danguillaume	FRA	+ 4:18 min
9	Fiorenzo Magni	ITA
10	Maurice Diot	FRA
11	Émile Idée	FRA

space	athlete	country	time
12	Wim van Est	NED	+ 4:18 min
13	Gottfried Weilenmann	SUI
14th	Mario Ricci	ITA
15th	Marcel Ernzer	LUX
16	Albert Ramon	BEL
17th	Luciano Maggini	ITA
18th	Stan Ockers	BEL
19th	Raymond Impanis	BEL
20th	Sjef Janssen	NED
21st	Fritz Schär	SUI
22nd	Jean Rey	FRA

Amateurs (193.6 km)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Henk Faanhof	NED	4:53:42
2	Henri Kass	LUX	4:53:42
3	Hubert Vinken	NED	4:54:04
4th	Serge Blusson	FRA
5	Robert Varnajo	FRA
6th	Walter Bucher	SUI
7th	Hans Born	SUI
8th	Roger Hureaux	FRA
...			...

literature

• Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championship . Covadonga Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 50

See also

• UCI track world championships 1949

Web links

• Professionals at www.radsport-seite.de
• Amateurs at www.radsportseiten.net