UCI Road World Championships 1965

The 1965 UCI Road World Championships took place from September 2nd to 5th in Lasarte-Oria, Spain , near San Sebastián . It was the first cycling world championship in Spain.

Racing action

Professional driver

The pros race on Sunday 5th September suffered from wet and cold weather. The actors had to drive a 19.1 kilometer circuit in Lasarte, which had to be driven fourteen times, so that the racetrack was 267.4 kilometers. The first preliminary decision was made on the first lap of the race, which was "full of struggle and drama": A group of 15 raced forward, from which two drivers, the German Rudi Altig and the British Tom Simpson , raced forward after twelve laps . discontinue. In the finish sprint, Simpson beat Altig by four wheel lengths, making him the first British road world champion. Third place went to the Belgian Roger Swerts . Altig's second place finish was noteworthy as he had broken a leg at the Vuelta a España just a few months earlier . The German Karl-Heinz customer took fifth place behind the Dutchman Peter Post . Of 74 starters, 56 crossed the finish line, including five other German drivers.

The German magazine Radsport also reported with outrage that the training of the Italian and Spanish teams of four took place with the help of radios and megaphones, which would have violated the sporting regulations.

Amateurs

On Saturday, September 4th, 142 athletes from 31 countries started the World Amateurs Road Championship. Among them were drivers from the GDR for the first time in three years . In windless weather and rainy weather from the fifth lap on the circuit in Lasarte, the participants had to cover a distance of 171.9 kilometers. Apart from a few unsuccessful attempts, the field stayed together throughout the journey. So it came to a mass arrival at the finish, in which the third of the French championship Jacques Botherel irresistibly pulled away from all others. The two West German drivers Wilfried Peffgen and Burkhard Ebert spurted their positions seven and eight, while the six GDR drivers had failed to get themselves into a favorable position in time. For them, Bernd Knispel's 17th place was the best rating.

In dry weather, the women who started before the amateur men had to cover a distance of 51.95 kilometers. 29 riders from nine countries took part. After setting an unusually fast pace of 35.2 km / h on the first three laps, the pace slowed down a bit, but the field stayed together until the end. Breakaway attempts by the Belgian Yvonne Reynders and the GDR driver Gisela Graßmann were quickly thwarted. At the finish of the field, which still consists of 25 drivers, Elisabeth Eichholz from the GDR turned out to be the fastest tracker. This year, contrary to its practice in previous years, cycling reported in a small note about the women's World Cup race.

A separate course had been set out for the 100 km team time trial, which led from Lasarte 21 kilometers south. After a U-turn, they drove back the same route for 16 kilometers and then returned to Lasarte in a 13-kilometer loop. The track was driven twice and with an average speed of 42.7 km / h the four drivers from Italy turned out to be the fastest.

Sports policy

During the UCI Congress before the World Cup there were discrepancies, as the representatives of the West German Federal German Cyclists (BDR) under the flags of the participating countries a "splittist Flag" accounted for, as then-flag GDR was called colloquially in the Federal Republic . Its immediate removal was enforced with the support of the German Embassy, ​​it was replaced by a "Tokyo flag": black, red and gold with the Olympic rings.

In addition, at this congress a de facto split of the UCI into two associations was decided, the FICA (Fédération Internationale de Cyclisme Amateur) and the FICP (Fédération Internationale de Cyclisme Professionelle). This complied with a request from the IOC. The UCI practically only continued to exist as an umbrella organization.

Results

Pros - individual race (267.4 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Tom Simpson	GBR	6:39:19 h
2	Rudi Altig	GER	equal time
3	Roger Swerts	BEL	+ 3:40
4th	Peter Post	NED	equal time
5	Karl-Heinz customer	GER	equal time
6th	René Bingelli	SUI	+ 3:50
7th	Aria den Hartog	NED	all the same time
8th	Franco Balmamion	ITA
9	Francisco Gabica	ESP
10	Jean Stablinski	FRA	+ 4:58
11	Antonio Gomez del Moral	ESP	+ 6:06
12	Bruno Mealli	ITA	equal time
13	Sebastian Elorza	ESP	+ 7:44
14th	Edward Sels	BEL	+ 9:06
15th	Valentin Uriona	ESP	all the same time
16	Italo Zilioli	ITA
17th	Fernando Manzaneque	ESP
18th	Bernard Van De Kerckhove	BEL
19th	Barry Hoban	GBR	+ 9:55
20th	Walter Godefroot	BEL	+ 12:56
21st	Hennes Junkermann	GER	all the same time
22nd	Joseph Groussard	FRA
23	Willi Altig	GER
24	Winfried Boelke	GER
25th	Joseph Huysmans	BEL
0 ...
50	Dieter Wiedemann	GER	+ 16:00
52	Peter Glemser	GER	equal time
0 ...

Amateurs - individual race (171.9 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Jacques Botherel	FRA	4:12:52 h
2	José Manuel Lasa	ESP	equal time
3	Battista Monti	ITA	equal time
4th	Wim Schepers	NED	every 4:12:52 h
5	Ole Knight	DNK
6th	Alberto Breppe	ARG
7th	Wilfried Peffgen	GER
8th	Burkhard Ebert	GER
9	Marian Kegel	POLE
10	Daniel Biolley	SUI
0 ...
17th	Bernd Knispel	GDR
40	Hans-Dieter Taufmann	GDR
45	Siegfried Huster	GDR
46	Günter Lux	GDR
57	Bernhard Eckstein	GDR
0 ...
68	Günter Liebold	GDR

Women - individual race (51.95 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Elisabeth Eichholz	GDR	1:31:04 h
2	Yvonne Reynders	BEL	equal time
3	Aina Puronen	URS	equal time
4th	Lily Clairen	BEL	every 1:31:04 h
5	Lyli Herse	FRA
6th	Nadezhda Samoletova	URS
7th	Ludmila Filina	URS
8th	Louisa Smits	BEL
9	Elsy Jacobs	LUX
10	Renée Vissac	FRA
0 ...
16	Gisela Graßmann	GDR
0 ...

Amateurs - team time trial (100 km)

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Italy	Pietro Guerra / Luciana Dalla Bona / Mino Denti / Giuseppe Soldi	2:22:03 h
2	Spain	Ventura Diaz Arrey / José-Manuel Lopéz Rodríguez / José Manuel Lasa / Domingo Perurena	2:22:13 h
3	France	André Desvages / Gerard Swertvaeger / Henri Heintz / Claude Lechatelier	2:24:06 h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cycling , September 7, 1965

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 94, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , September 1965
• Deutsches Sportecho , issues from August 30th to September 6th, 1965

Web links

• Professional results at www.radsport-seite.de
• Women results at www.the-sports.org

See also

• UCI Track World Championships 1965