UCI Road World Championships 1967

The 20-year-old René Pijnen (here in 1969) came third in the amateur road race.

The 1967 UCI Road World Championships took place from August 31 to September 3 in Heerlen , the Netherlands .

Racing action

The individual races led over a circuit of 13.259 kilometers between Heerlen and Voerendaal ; a 25-kilometer circuit between Heerlen and Roermond had been set up for team driving. The start and finish were on the Heerlen– Eindhoven motorway . The races were well attended on all days, with 150,000 spectators attending the professional race alone.

A special feature was the victory in the team time trial over 100 kilometers by the four Swedish brothers Petterson, known as the " Fåglum brothers ", which they were able to repeat at world championships in the following two years. The trade journal Radsport was enthusiastic: “The four blond athletes will certainly go down in history as a unique phenomenon [...]. The fact that a pair of brothers developed into such a fighting team and was able to successfully reach for the laurel has not yet existed and will probably no longer exist in the future. ” The German street team of trainer Otto Ziege , which has often disappointed in the past few years had, finished fourth and thus the best place at a World Cup so far. The GDR quartet finished eighth, 5:35 minutes behind the Swedes. A total of 25 teams took part.

In the year of the World Cup, the Federation of German Cyclists also approved women in racing in the Federal Republic of Germany , which is why three German women riders competed for the first time at these World Championships. Monika Mrklas was best of them 26th; she was actually a cross-country skier and later started twice in this discipline at the Olympic Games . Best German was Hannelore Mattig from East Berlin in 25th place. This year cycling reported for the first time on the women's race (albeit without a photo) and the victory of the "bicycling English housewife" Beryl Burton . At that time, the "housewife" Burton held numerous national titles as well as records, which had earned her the title of "British Best Allrounder", which she could keep for 25 years. In 1967, the year of the World Cup, she set a twelve-hour record that was better than the men's.

In the men's amateur individual race, which had to cover 198.9 kilometers, 160 athletes from 31 countries started. Up to the last lap there was a four-man leading group, which also included GDR driver Klaus Ampler . On the last 13 kilometers he had to let his three opponents go and was the best German driver in the end. With an hourly average of 39.9 km / h , the 23-year-old Englishman Graham Webb became the new amateur world champion after a sprint victory.

Among the professionals , of which 70 started and 45 arrived, Eddy Merckx won for the first time after he had become world champion among the amateurs in 1964 . With an average speed of 39.3 km / h, he prevailed as the clear sprint winner. He was only 22 years old, which is why he was nicknamed “Baby-Merckx” in the press. The best German was Rolf Wolfshohl in 13th place, despite a fall after a flying bottle got caught in the spokes of his bike. The fifth-placed Dutchman Jos van der Vleuten was subsequently disqualified for a doping offense.

In the run-up, there were again heated discussions about the question of whether the GDR anthem should be played and its flag should be hoisted. The association representative from the GDR insisted on an alleged commitment from the Dutch association president; the government, however, prohibited both. The representatives of the GDR even called for the World Cup to be canceled, but finally bowed, especially since a letter from international sports federations said not to hoist a single flag or play an anthem in the event of disputes on this issue.

During the World Cup, other doping offenders besides van der Vleuten were discovered: The Italians Leandro Faggin and Giacomo Fornoni each received a fine of 2,000 French francs; the Spanish stayer Guillermo Timoner had to pay three times the sum because he had not appeared for a doping control. The Belgian Yvonne Reynders and the Swiss Fredy Rüegg were disqualified.

Results

August 31, Amateurs - Team Time Trial (96.4 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Sweden	Erik Pettersson / Gösta Pettersson / Sture Pettersson / Tomas Pettersson	2:03:07 h
2	Denmark	Verner Blaudzun / Jørgen Emil Hansen / Leif Mortensen / Henning Pedersen	2:03:23 h
3	Italy	Lorenzo Bosisio / Benito Pigato / Vittorio Marcelli / Flavio Martini	2:03:46 h
4th	Germany	Martin Gombert / Dieter Leitner / Lutz Löschke / Burkhard Ebert	2:06:51 h
5	Soviet Union		2:07:49 h
6th	France		2:08:13 h
7th	Poland		2:08:28 h
8th	GDR	Manfred Dähne / Dieter Grabe / Günter Hoffmann / Axel Peschel	2:08:42 h
9	Switzerland		2:08:46 h
10	Romania		2:09:17 h
0 ...
25th	Mexico		2:21:58 h

September 2, women - individual race
(53.0 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Beryl Burton	GBR	1:26:30 h
2	Lyuba Zadorozhnaya	URS	+ 1:47 min
3	Anna Konkina	URS	+ 5:47 min
4th	Galina Yudina	URS	unknown
5	Louisa Smits	BEL
6th	Svetlana Nikolayeva	URS
7th	Keetie van Oosten-Hage	NED
8th	Elsy Jacobs	LUX
9	Nadja Samoletova	URS
10	Nicole Van Den Broeck	BEL
0 ...
25th	Hannelore Mattig	GDR	unknown
26th	Monika Mrklas	GER
32	Gisela Grassmann	GDR
35	Heidi Blobner	GDR
0 ...

September 2, amateurs - individual race (198.9 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Graham Webb	GBR	4:58:43 h
2	Claude Guyot	FRA	4:58:43 h
3	René Pijnen	NED	4:58:43 h
4th	Jørgen Emil Hansen	THE	all the same time
5	Curt Soderlund	SWE
6th	Gert Harings	NED
7th	Roger De Vlaeminck	BEL
8th	Giannino Bianco	ITA
9	Jose Gomez-Lucas	ESP
10	Jean-Pierre Monseré	BEL
11	Giovanni Bramucci	ITA
12	Constantino Conti	ITA
13	Pavel Doležel	TCH
14th	Klaus Ampler	GDR
0 ...
28	Günter Hoffmann	GDR	+ 5:48 min
33	Siegfried Huster	GDR	+ 6:43 min
51	Karl-Heinz Kazmierzak	GDR	+ 6:43 min
52	Bernd Knispel	GDR	+ 6:43 min
0 ...

September 3, professionals (265.2 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Eddy Merckx	BEL	6:44:42 h
2	Jan Janssen	NED	same time
3	Ramón Sáez	ESP	same time
4th	Gianni Motta	ITA	same time
5	Jos van der Vleuten	NED	same time
6th	José Manuel Lasa	ESP	+ 2:05 min
7th	Daniel Van Rijckeghem	BEL	all the same time
8th	Michele Dancelli	ITA
9	Jos Boons	BEL
10	Robert Hagmann	SUI
11	Peter Post	NED
12	André Foucher	FRA

0

space	athlete	country	time
13	Rolf Wolfshohl	GER	8:03 min
14th	Rudi Altig	GER	8:25 min
15th	Karstens tanning	NED	all the same time
16	Marino Basso	ITA
17th	Harry Steevens	NED
18th	Raymond Riotte	FRA
19th	Paul Lemeteyer	FRA
20th	Jan Harings	NED
0 ...
25th	Hennes Junkermann	GER	+ 2:05 min
45	Herbert Wilde	GER	+ 14:03 min

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , September 5, 1967, p. 3
2. ↑ Cycling , September 5, 1976, p. 6
3. ↑ Cycling , August 29, 1967, p. 2

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 106, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1967
• Deutsches Sportecho , issues August 30 to September 4, 1967

Web links

• Results of the professionals at www.museociclismo.it

See also

• 1967 UCI Track World Championships