1958 UCI Road World Championships
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
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