1958 UCI Road World Championships

Gustav-Adolf Schur became the first German amateur road world champion in Reims

The UCI Road World Championships 1958 were held in the 30 and 31 August the French Reims instead.

Racing action

The world championship course led partly on the Circuit de Reims-Gueux , a race track for car races. One lap of the course was 19.771 kilometers.

In the title fight of the amateurs on Saturday, August 30th, a German driver, the GDR driver Gustav-Adolf Schur from Leipzig , won for the first time in the history of the road world championships . He won in the sprint ahead of the Belgian Valère Paulissen and needed an hourly average of 36.4 km / h.

In the professional race , two German drivers finished in the top ten, Hennes Junkermann finished seventh and Klaus Bugdahl tenth. The winner with an average speed of 37.6 km / h was the Italian Ercole Baldini , who had already broken out of the field together with three other drivers in the second of a total of 14 laps, and the favorites Rik Van Looy , Rik Van Steenbergen , Jacques Anquetil and André Darrigade had surprised. The two Riks later gave up; out of a total of 67 drivers, only 26 crossed the finish line. From the twelfth lap onwards, Baldini drove a 50-kilometer solo to the finish and won with a gap of more than two minutes on second, the Frenchman Louison Bobet . In addition to Junkermann and Bugdahl, two other German drivers, Lothar Friedrich and Mathias Löder, crossed the finish line, four Germans gave up prematurely.

For the first time, women took part in these world championships. 29 riders started, and Elsy Jacobs from Luxembourg won with a three-minute lead.

Results

Professionals - 276.794 km space athlete country time 1 Ercole Baldini  ITA 7:29:32 h 2 Louison Bobet  FRA + 2:09 min 3 André Darrigade  FRA + 3:47 min 4th Vito Favero  ITA + 3:47 min 5 Jean Forestier  FRA 6th Valentin Huot  FRA 7th Hennes Junkermann  GER 8th Martin van der Borgh  NED + 4:25 min 9 Frans Aerenhouts  BEL + 4:40 min 10 Klaus Bugdahl  GER + 4:40 min 11 Miguel Poblet  ESP + 4:45 min 12 Jozef Schils  BEL 13 John Andrews  GBR 14th Nino Defilippis  ITA 15th Raphaël Géminiani  FRA 16 Hans Edmund Andresen  THE + 7:06 min 17th Piet ladies  NED 18th Fausto Coppi  ITA 19th Gilbert Scodeller  FRA 20th Jef Planckaert  BEL 21st Jan Adriaenssens  BEL 22nd Seamus Elliott  IRL + 7:43 min 23 Brian Robinson  GBR + 8:38 min 24 Jean Graczyk  FRA + 10:52 min 25th Lothar Friedrich  GER 26th Mathias Löder  GER

Amateurs Men - 177.939 km space athlete country time 1 Gustav-Adolf Schur  GDR 4:53:19 h 2 Valère Paulissen  BEL equal time 3 Henri De Wolf  BEL equal time 0 ... * Women - 59.313 km space athlete country time 1 Elsy Jacobs  LUX 1:50:95 h 2 Tamara Novikova  URS + 2:51 min 3 Maria Loukchina  URS + 2:51 min 4th Victoire Van Nuffel  BEL ? 5 Joan Poole  GBR 6th Vera Gorbatcheva  URS 7th Barbara Harris  GBR 8th Liliane Cleiren  BEL 9 Nadia Germonpre  BEL 10 Renee Vissac  FRA 0 ... 12 Elfriede Vey  GDR ? 0 ... 20th Yvonne Reynders  BEL ?

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 76, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Results of the professionals at www.radsport-seite.de
• Results of the amateurs (men) at www.radsportseiten.net
• Results of the women at www.the-sports.org

See also

• 1958 UCI Track World Championships