1952 UCI Road World Championships

The 1952 UCI Road World Championships took place in Luxembourg on August 23rd and 24th .

Racing action

For the first time in the history of the professional road world championships, there was a German winner in the 27-year-old Heinz Müller from the Bauer racing team . 48 professional drivers had tackled the 280-kilometer-long undemanding race track, a 16-kilometer circuit. There were attempts to break away on the 17 laps, but in the 13th lap the peloton was reunited and headed for the goal as one. The until then little known Müller was able to show his speed in the sprint. In terms of tire strength, he relegated the Swiss Gottfried Weilenmann to second place. Müller achieved an average speed of 39.45 km / h. Team colleague Ludwig Hörmann completed the German success in third place. This was followed by a group of 31 more drivers at the same time, 19 of whom were placed 11th together with the German Werner Holhoffer . The fourth German Valentin Petry finished in 30th place. Heinrich Schwarzer and Peter Schulte were eliminated after the ninth lap. With them, a further eight drivers had given up the race prematurely.

The day before, 113 amateur drivers from 23 countries had determined their new world champion over 175 kilometers. The 22-year-old Italian Luciano Ciancola won with an hourly average of 40.048 km / h and a wafer-thin lead . The Dutchman Piet van den Brekel came in second, but was later disqualified because of an unauthorized wheel change. German drivers played no role in the race. While the GDR had not sent any participants, of the six West German drivers only Horst Tüller and Franz Reitz crossed the finish line with the main field, Maue was eliminated early.

Results

Professionals (280 km)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Heinz Müller	GER	7:05:51
2	Gottfried Weilenmann	SUI	7:05:51
3	Ludwig Hörmann	GER	7:05:51
4th	Fiorenzo Magni	ITA	7:05:51
5	Robert Varnajo	FRA
6th	Henk Faanhof	NED
7th	Jean Baldassari	FRA
8th	Louison Bobet	FRA
9	Rik Van Steenbergen	BEL
10	Antonio Bevilacqua	ITA
all square 11	Gino Bartali	ITA
	Robert Bintz	LUX
	Jean Brun	SUI
	Emilio Croci-Torti	SUI
	Roger Decorte	BEL
	Hans Dekkers	NED

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
all square 11	Adolphe Deledda	FRA	7:05:51
	Wim van Est	NED
	Werner Holhoffer	GER
	Ferdy Kübler	SUI
	Giuseppe Minardi	ITA
	Hans Noetzli	SUI
	Stan Ockers	BEL
	Loretto Petrucci	ITA
	Raoul Remy	FRA
	Jean Robic	FRA
	Jozef Schils	BEL
	Kurt Schneider	AUT
	Gerrit Voorting	NED
30th	Valentin Petry	GER
00...
38	Clive Parker	GBR	7:29:00

Amateurs (175 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Luciano Ciancola	ITA	4:22:11 h
2	André Noyelle	BEL	same time
3	Roger Ludwig	LUX	same time

literature

• Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championship . Covadonga Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 56

See also

• 1952 UCI Track World Championships

Web links

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