1957 UCI Road World Championships

The 1957 UCI Road World Championships took place on August 18th in Waregem , Belgium .

Racing action

For the 24th road world championship for professional drivers , 70 participants started on a 285.6 kilometer route, which was held on a 24 km circuit. In addition to the 82 meter high Tiegemberg, which had to be conquered twelve times, the drivers had to contend with rainy weather. The race was marked by numerous breakaway attempts, in which the German drivers Lothar Friedrich and Hennes Junkermann also took part. For a long time the Belgian Rik Van Looy drove away from the field, which only caught up with him on the last lap. In the final sprint there was a duel between defending champion Rik Van Steenbergen from Belgium and Frenchman Louison Bobet . Thanks to a dangling, close to the limit of what was allowed, the 32-year-old Belgian gained the decisive advantage and secured the world title for the third time. Seven athletes from Germany had started the race, four held out to the end, but all ended up in the back of the field: Hennes Junkermann (31st), Franz Reitz (33rd), Horst Backat (34th) and Lothar Friedrich (37th) ). A total of 29 drivers gave up prematurely. The difficulty of the race was also demonstrated by the fact that the winner had to be lifted from the bike after the finish line, completely exhausted. He had reached an hourly average of 37 km / h.

The day before, the amateurs had determined their world champion on a 190-kilometer course. The 22-year-old Louis Proost was also won by a Belgian who achieved an hourly average of 37.8 km / h. Just 12 seconds behind the new world champion, GDR driver Gustav-Adolf Schur came fourth and Friedhelm Fischerkeller from the Federal Republic came sixth.

Results

Professionals - 286 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Rik Van Steenbergen	BEL	7:43:10 h
2	Louison Bobet	FRA	equal time
3	André Darrigade	FRA	equal time
4th	Rik Van Looy	BEL	equal time
5	Fred De Bruyne	BEL
6th	Jacques Anquetil	FRA
7th	Leon Vandaele	BEL	+ 0:12 min
8th	Germain Derijcke	BEL
9	Julien Schepens	BEL
10	Marcel Ernzer	LUX
11	Marcel Janssens	BEL
12	Leo van der Pluym	NED
13	Gastone Nencini	ITA
14th	Piet van de Jongh	NED

space	athlete	country	time
15th	Guido bonuses	ITA	+ 0:12 min
16	Brian Robinson	GBR
17th	Wout Wagtmans	NED
18th	Ercole Baldini	ITA
19th	Bernard Gauthier	FRA
20th	Raymond Impanis	BEL
0 ...
31	Hennes Junkermann	GER	+ 11:25 min
33	Franz Reitz	GER
34	Horst Backat	GER
37	Lothar Friedrich	GER
0 ...
41	Antonio Ferraz	ESP	+ 11:25 min

Amateurs - 190 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Louis Proost	BEL	5:05:05 h
2	Arnaldo Pambianco	ITA	equal time
3	Schalk Verhoef	NED	equal time
4th	Gustav-Adolf Schur	GDR	+ 0:12 min
5	Frans Demulder	BEL
6th	Friedhelm Fischerkeller	GER
7th	Guillaume Van Tongerloo	BEL
8th	Herbert Dahlbom	SWE
9	Oreste Magni	ITA
10	Ezio Pizzoglio	ITA

literature

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

Web links

• Results professionals at www.radsport-seite.de
• Results amateurs at www.radsportseiten.net