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
space | athlete | country | time |
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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 | |
... | |||
50 | Dieter Wiedemann | GER | + 16:00 |
52 | Peter Glemser | GER | equal time |
... |
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 | |
... | |||
17th | Bernd Knispel | GDR | |
40 | Hans-Dieter Taufmann | GDR | |
45 | Siegfried Huster | GDR | |
46 | Günter Lux | GDR | |
57 | Bernhard Eckstein | GDR | |
... | |||
68 | Günter Liebold | GDR |
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 | |
... | |||
16 | Gisela Graßmann | GDR | |
... |
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
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