1951 UCI Road World Championships

The 1951 UCI Road World Championships took place on September 2nd in Varese, Italy.

Racing action

The professional drivers drove 295.2 kilometers on a 15-kilometer circuit on which they had to complete twelve laps. For the first time since 1938, six German drivers took part in the world championship. When a breakaway group formed during the third round around the Italian Giuseppe Minardi , the German champion in the singles pursuit Heinrich Schwarzer was also there. During the course of the race, the group grew to eight drivers, who eventually crossed the finish line with a one-minute lead. On the home straight, the 32-year-old Swiss Ferdy Kübler left his competitors behind in a sprint and won with a lead of two bike lengths. He had achieved an average speed of 34.8 km / h. While the two local heroes Fiorenzo Magni and Antonio Bevilacqua sprinted for medal ranks two and three, Schwarzer secured 6th place. Of the 45 drivers who started, only 26 made it to the finish. The other five German drivers were also among those who had left. According to estimates, up to half a million viewers watched the professional race.

The amateurs, who had to cover 172.2 kilometers, saw an Italian one-two in front of their home crowd. With an hourly average of 36.6 km / h, the 21-year-old Gianni Ghidini won after a mass finish in a sprint ahead of his compatriot Rino Benedetti . 41 drivers reached the finish line, German racing drivers were not among them.

Results

Pros (295.2 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Ferdy Kübler	SUI	8:28:28 h
2	Fiorenzo Magni	ITA	8:28:28 h
3	Antonio Bevilacqua	ITA	8:28:28 h
4th	Joseph De Feyter	BEL	8:28:28 h
5	Gerrit Voorting	NED
6th	Heinrich Schwarzer	GER
7th	Wout Wagtmans	NED
8th	Giuseppe Minardi	ITA
9	Gino Bartali	ITA	+ 1:05 min
10	Hans Dekkers	NED	+ 1:35 min
11	Bim Diederich	LUX	+ 1:47 min
12	Henri Van Kerkhove	BEL	+ 5:00 min

space	athlete	country	time
13	Germain Derijcke	BEL	+ 6:17 min
14th	Louison Bobet	FRA
15th	Gottfried Weilenmann	SUI
16	Alfredo Pasotti	ITA
17th	Wim van Est	NED
18th	Rik Van Steenbergen	BEL
19th	Willy Kemp	LUX
20th	Albéric Schotte	BEL
21st	Fritz Schär	SUI
22nd	Jean churches	LUX
23	Guido De Santi	ITA
24	Giovanni Rossi	SUI

Amateurs (172 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Gianni Ghidini	ITA	4:44:22 h
2	Rino Benedetti	ITA	4:44:22 h
3	Jan Plantaz	NED	4:44:22 h
4th	Josef Winterberg	SUI	4:44:22 h
5	Josef Schraner	SUI
6th	Christian Pedersen	THE
7th	Yngve Lundh	SWE
8th	Jørgen Franck Rasmussen	THE

space	athlete	country	time
9	Willy Hutmacher	SUI	4:44:22 h
10	Max Schellenberg	SUI
11	Luciano Ciancola	ITA
12	Johannes Zagers	BEL
13	Hubert Bastianelli	FRA
14th	Jean Dacquay	FRA
...	...	...	...
41	Franz German	AUT	+ 6:15

See also

• 1951 UCI track world championships

literature

• Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championship . Covadonga Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 54

Web links

• Professionals at www.radsport-seite.de
• Amateurs at www.dailypeloton.com