UCI Road World Championships 1961

The UCI Road World Championships 1961 were held in the 2 and 3 September Swiss Bern instead. The route led over an approximately 13-kilometer circuit of the Bremgarten motor racing track in the city of Bern. The professional riders Rik Van Looy from Belgium , the amateurs Jean Jourden from France and the women Yvonne Reynders also from Belgium became new world champions .

Professional racing

The professional drivers had to cover a distance of 285.252 kilometers. The 27-year-old Belgian Rik Van Looy was able to successfully defend his title from 1960. He won the sprint from the 24-man main field despite a multiple broken spoke shortly before the finish line in front of the Italian Nino Defilippis and Raymond Poulidor from France . The drivers in the main field had achieved an hourly average of 36.8 kilometers per hour . The German driver Hennes Junkermann , who was one of the favorites , only came in 10th. Of the nine riders of the Association of German Cyclists who started , only Sigi Renz reached the finish line in 25th place, 19 minutes behind. Out of a total of 71 drivers, only 32 made it to the finish, although the allegedly less selective nature of the route had been criticized in advance. The most successful nation was Belgium, which in addition to the new and old world champion brought another four riders to the finish line, among them Jozef Planckaert in seventh place .

Amateur races

The world championship course for amateur drivers ran over a distance of 181.524 kilometers, for which 14 laps were necessary. 129 drivers from 31 nations took part. At 37.6 km / h, the only 19-year-old Frenchman Jean Jourden became the new amateur world champion from a three-man top group. He defeated his compatriot Henri Belena in a sprint, 22 seconds later the third Frenchman Jacques Gestraud crossed the finish line. In contrast to the previous year, the state amateurs from the Eastern Bloc did not get a chance this time . Of them, the GDR driver and defending champion Bernhard Eckstein came in only 14th as the best player . The other German drivers from East and West had nothing to do with the decision, the best West German amateur was the 20-year-old Hombrucher Winfried Bölke 30th German champion Karl-Heinz Kunde gave up in the second lap after being nine minutes behind. GDR drivers Günter Lörke , Lothar Appler and Hans Scheibner also got off their bikes early.

Women's race

The women had to cover a distance of 61 kilometers in Bern. Yvonne Reynders made the Belgian triumph perfect and, like her compatriot, became world champion in the 1961 cycling season. She relegated defending champion Beryl Burton from Great Britain and Luxembourg Elsy Jacobs to their places. The best German was the GDR starter Elisabeth Kleinhans . As with the professional drivers, Belgium was the most successful country for women, with Reynders and four other drivers making it into the top 12.

Results

Professionals - 285.252 km
space	Surname	country	time
01	Rik Van Looy	BEL	7:46:35 h
02	Nino Defilippis	ITA	+ 0 min
03	Raymond Poulidor	FRA	+ 0 min
04th	José Bernadez	ESP	every + 0 min
05	Jo de Roo	NED
06th	Jean Stablinski	FRA
07th	Jef Planckaert	BEL
08th	Gastone Nencini	ITA
09	Tom Simpson	GBR
10	Hennes Junkermann	GER
11	Piet Rentmeester	NED
12	Angelo Conterno	ITA
13	Jacques Anquetil	FRA
14th	Imerio Massignan	ITA
15th	Michel Stolker	ITA	+ 0:33 min
16	Diego Ronchini	ITA	+ 0:33 min
17th	Federico Bahamontes	ITA	all + 0:37 min
18th	Ercole Baldini	ITA
19th	Frans De Mulder	BEL
20th	Kurt Gimmi	SUI
21st	Robert Cazala	FRA
22nd	Arnaldo Pambianco	ITA
23	Bas Maliepaard	NED
24	Willy Schroeders	BEL	+ 0:52 min
25th	Sigi Renz	GER	all + 19:14 min
26th	Michel Van Aerde	BEL
27	Niels Baunsoe	THE
28	Wilfried Thaler	AUT
29	Fredy Rüegg	SUI
30th	Attilio Moresi	SUI
31	Rolf Maurer	SUI
32	Rolf Graf	SUI

Amateurs - 181.524 km
space	Surname	country	time
1	Jean Jourden	FRA	4:49:54 h
2	Henri Belena	FRA	+ 0 min
3	Jacques Gestraud	FRA	+ 0:22 min
4th	Guido De Rosso	ITA	every + 1:28 min
5	Roger Melckenbeeck	BEL
6th	Aldo Pifferi	ITA
7th	Jan Janssen	NED
8th	Erwin Jaisli	SUI
9	Alfons Hellemans	BEL
10	Martin Van Den Bossche	BEL
11	Leon Sebregts	NED
12	Jan Schröder	NED
13	Gosta Pettersson	SWE
14th	Bernhard Eckstein	GDR
15th	Michael Wright	GBR
16	Jos Hermans	BEL
17th	Robert Hentges	LUX
18th	Alexei Petrov	URS
19th	Bruno Fantinato	ITA
20th	Jaap de Waard	NED
0 ...
23	Gustav-Adolf Schur	GDR	+ 1:28 min
30th	Winfried Boelke	GER	+ 5:07 min
57	Manfred Brüning	GDR	+ 1209 min
64	Klaus Limbach	GER	+ 14:13 min

Women - 61 km
space	Surname	country
01	Yvonne Reynders	BEL
02	Beryl Burton	GBR
03	Elsy Jacobs	LUX
04th	Aina Puronen	URS
05	Maria Luchina	URS
06th	Marie-Thérèse Naessens	BEL
07th	Elisabeth Kleinhans	GDR
08th	Nadia Germonpre	BEL
09	Rosa Sels	BEL
10	Sheila Holmes	GBR
11	Lyli Herse	FRA
12	Anne Vermeiren	BEL

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 84, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1961
• Deutsches Sportecho , issue from September 4, 1961

Web links

• Results men at les-sports.info
• Results women at radsportseiten.net

See also

• 1961 UCI Track World Championships