UCI Road World Championships 1964

Eddy Merckx (here 1973) won his first world title in Sallanches.

The 1964 UCI Road World Championships took place from September 3rd to 6th in Sallanches and Albertville in the French Alps .

Racing action

The races were on a circular course of eleven kilometers and included an incline of 2900 meters, five kilometers could be "described as flat". While there was still sunshine on Thursday when the team time trial was held, the rest of the competition days were dominated by cold and rain. For the first time the World Championships were televised.

Professional driver

For the professionals, who had to drive 290 kilometers, 62 drivers started, 40 of whom made it to the finish. The race was marked by numerous attacks, including the French Henry Anglade . However, he later fell back into the main field and instead a seven-man breakaway group formed, which finally reached the goal with a 38-second lead. The sprint won the 24-year-old Dutchman Jan Janssen , who needed an average speed of 38.1 km / h for his victory. The German drivers missed the top group and so Horst Oldenburg was only twelfth as the best German. In addition, Hans Junkermann (15th) and Rudi Altig (18th) were able to place themselves , while five other German drivers ( Willi Altig , Günter Tüller , Sigi Renz , Karl-Heinz Kunde and Winfried Bölke ) were eliminated early.

Amateurs

As in the last two years, drivers from the GDR could not take part in the World Championships because they had again been refused entry visas.

For the participants, this World Cup was also the last test before the Olympic Games in Tokyo that followed in October (women's races were not yet Olympic).

In the men's individual road race over 185.6 kilometers, a young, aspiring racing driver from Belgium named Eddy Merckx won at 39.9 km / h . He contested the last five kilometers in a solo trip and arrived at the finish with a lead of 27 seconds. His compatriot Willy Planckaert , who won the sprint from the chasing group, ensured a Belgian double victory . The two Germans Bernd Riemann (13th) and Wilfried Peffgen (14th) crossed the finish line with the chasing group and got the same time as Planckaert.

The 100 km team time trial was held on a circuit starting from Albertville. The Italian team won with an average speed of 47.2 km / h, almost 4 minutes ahead of the closest competitor.

In the women who had to cope with 66 kilometers, there was a Soviet double success by Emilija Sonk before Galina Judina . Four female drivers, one of whom was also from the Soviet Union, had the same time as these two.

Results

Professionals - individual race (290 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Jan Janssen	NED	7:35:52 h
2	Vittorio Adorni	ITA	equal time
3	Raymond Poulidor	FRA	equal time
4th	Tom Simpson	GBR	all + 0:06 min
5	Italo Zilioli	ITA
6th	Jo de Haan	NED
7th	Jacques Anquetil	FRA
8th	Fernando Manzaneque	ESP	all + 0:38 min
9	Jean Stablinski	FRA
10	Franco Cribiori	ITA
11	Benoni Beheyt	BEL
12	Horst Oldenburg	GER
13	Michael Wright	GBR
14th	Adriano Durante	ITA
15th	Hans Junkermann	GER
16	Luis Otano	ESP
17th	Peter Post	NED
18th	Rudi Altig	GER
19th	Seamus Elliott	IRL
20th	Gilbert Desmet I.	BEL
21st	Willy Bocklant	BEL
22nd	Francisco Gabica	ESP
23	Bruno Mealli	ITA
24	Rolf Maurer	SUI
25th	Georges Groussard	FRA
0 ...
40	Julio Jiménez	ESP	+ 6:08

Amateurs - Individual Race (185.6 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Eddy Merckx	BEL	4:39:10 h
2	Willy Planckaert	BEL	+ 0:27 min
3	Gosta Pettersson	SWE	+ 0:27 min
4th	Francis Bazire	FRA	all + 0:27 min
5	Christian Raymond	FRA
6th	Lucien Aimar	FRA
7th	Alexei Petrov	URS
8th	Harry Steevens	NED
9	Jos van der Vleuten	NED
10	Mario Zanin	ITA
11	Luciano Armani	ITA
12	Jan Kudra	POLE
13	Bernd Riemann	GER
14th	Wilfried Peffgen	GER
15th	Ole Højlund	THE
0 ...

Women - individual races

space	athlete	country	time
1	Emilija Sonk	URS	1:44:37 h
2	Galina Yudina	URS	equal time
3	Rosa Sels	BEL	equal time
4th	Marie-Rose Gaillard	BEL	every 1:44:37 h
5	Elsy Jacobs	LUX
6th	Tamara Kuchinskaya	URS
7th	Aino Puronen	URS	+ 0:14 min
8th	Liliane Cleiren	BEL	+ 0:14 min
0 ...

Amateurs - team time trial (100 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Italy	Severino Andreoli / Luciano Dalla Bona / Pietro Guerra / Ferruccio Manza	2:07:20
2	Spain	Juan García Such / José Ramón Goyeneche Bilbao / Ramón Sáez Marzo / Luis Pedro Santamarina	2:11:07
3	Belgium	René Heuvelmans / Roland De Neve / Roland Van De Rijse / Albert Van Vlierberghe	2:11:11

References and comments

1. ^ Cycling , September 1, 1964
2. ↑ There are various statements about the length of this route, other sources speak of 58 or 46 kilometers.

See also

• 1964 UCI Track World Championships

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 92, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , September 1964
• German sports echo , September 7, 1964

Web links

• Professional results at www.radsport-seite.de
• Results amateurs, men
• Men's results at www.the-sports.org
• Women results at www.the-sports.org