UCI Road World Championships 1962

Jean Stablinski became world champion for professionals

The 1962 UCI Road World Championships took place from August 29 to September 2 in Salò, Italy, and in Brescia .

Racing action

The racetrack went over a circular course of 12.880 kilometers. The professionals drove this lap 23 times, the amateurs 14 times and the women five times. In the sweltering heat, around 120,000 spectators lined the track for the professional race.

Among the professionals, the Frenchman Jean Stablinski became world champion with an average speed of 33.4 km / h and a lead of more than a minute, leaving many favorites like defending champion Rik Van Looy and Jacques Anquetil behind. The best German was Rolf Wolfshohl in fourth place, around two minutes behind the world champion Stablinski. The Germans Sigi Renz and Horst Oldenburg came in seventh and ninth, Hennes Junkermann in 17th. Rudi Altig , who was also favored , was disqualified after a fall because a spectator had given him a sponge to cool a wound. From a total of 69 starters, 36 crossed the finish line.

The winner among the amateurs, the Italian Renato Bongioni, was more of a surprise, which caused storms of enthusiasm among his around 20,000 compatriots on site. Bongioni drove the race course at 40.1 km / h and won at the finish in a sprint out of a four-man leading group with a lead of nine seconds. The top group also included the German champion from 1962 Winfried Bölke , who crossed the finish line in fourth. Drivers from the GDR could not take part in the world championship because the Allied Travel Office of the western occupying powers refused GDR athletes visas to western countries at that time.

The women's race was dominated by Belgian drivers: behind the new 18-year-old world champion Marie-Rose Gaillard , two more Belgian women made it onto the podium.

The inaugural team time trial conducted on circular route of 54 kilometers at Brescia , which was passed through twice. The first world champion in this discipline was the team from Italy , which was two minutes faster than the second-placed Danes .

Results

Pros - Individual Race (296.240 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Jean Stablinski	FRA	7:43:11 h
2	Seamus Elliott	IRL	+ 1:22 min
3	Jos Hoevenaers	BEL	+ 1:44 min
4th	Rolf Wolfshohl	GER	+ 1:54 min
5	Arnaldo Pambianco	ITA	+ 2:04 min
6th	Hubertus Zilverberg	NED	+ 2:10 min
7th	Sigi Renz	GER	+ 2:13 min
8th	Henry Anglade	FRA	+ 2:24 min
9	Horst Oldenburg	GER	+ 2:59 min
10	Franco Cribiori	ITA	+ 3:08 min
11	Piet Rentmeester	NED	+ 3:13 min
12	Antonio Suarez	ESP	+ 3:38 min
13	Luis Otano	ESP	+ 3:40 min
14th	Bastian Maliepaard	NED	+ 3:45 min
15th	Jacques Anquetil	FRA	all + 3:53 min
16	André Darrigade	FRA
17th	Hennes Junkermann	GER
18th	Kurt Gimmi	SUI
19th	Piet ladies	NED
20th	Horst Tüller	GER
21st	Eusebio Velez	ESP
22nd	Robert Cazala	FRA
23	René Bingelli	SUI
24	Angelo Soler	ESP
25th	Raymond Poulidor	FRA
0 ...
36	Roger Thull	LUX	+ 10:25 min

Amateurs - individual race (180.32 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Renato Bongioni	ITA	4:30:50 h
2	Ole Knight	THE	+ 0:09 min
3	Aria den Hartog	NED	+ 0:12 min
4th	Winfried Boelke	GER	+ 0:27 min
5	Andre Bazire	FRA	all + 0:44 min
6th	Battista Monti	ITA
7th	Gianpiero Macchi	ITA
8th	Jan Kudra	POLE
9	Antal Megyerdi	HUN
10	Alexey Petrov	URS
11	Viktor Kapitonov	URS
12	Karstens tanning	NED
0 ...

Women - individual race (64.4 km)

space	athlete	country
1	Marie-Rose Gaillard	BEL
2	Yvonne Reynders	BEL
3	Marie-Thérèse Naessens	BEL
4th	Aina Pouronen	URS
5	Jo Bowers	GBR
6th	Liliane Cleiren	BEL
7th	Lyli Herse	FRA
8th	Beryl Burton	GBR
9	Simone Ellegeest	BEL
10	Maria Lukschina	URS
0 ...

Amateurs - Team Time Trial (180.32 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)	km / h
1	Italy	Mario Maino / Antonio Tagliani Dino Zandegù / Danilo Grassi	2: 28: 48.5	45,400
2	Denmark	Ole Ritter / Vagn Bangsborg Mogens Tvilling / Ole Kroier	2: 30: 46.0	44.761
3	Uruguay	Ruben Etchebarne / Juan José Timón Vid Cencic / René Pezzati	2: 31: 12.7	44.678

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The information on the total route length varies between 108 and 114.5 kilometers.

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 86, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1962
• German sports echo , September 4, 1962

Web links

• Results of the professionals at www.radsport-seite.de

See also

• UCI Track World Championships 1962