UCI Road World Championships 1968
The UCI Road World Championships 1968 were held on 31 August and 1 September for professional racers in women and Italian Imola instead. The Olympic disciplines , team time trials and amateur individual races reserved for amateurs were held on November 7th and 10th in Montevideo , Uruguay .
Racing action
Imola
84 starters took part in the professional race in Italy, of which only 19 made it to the finish. The rest had to pay tribute to the three “toxic climbs” (Boelsen) on the 277.3 kilometer route. A circuit of 15,406 kilometers was driven. The evening before the race, Jacques Anquetil had tried to set up an "anti- Merckx front". The planned special surveillance became unnecessary during the course of the race, as there were team -mates from Merckx in an eight-man breakaway group , including the later world champion Vittorio Adorni , whom Merckx let go because Adorni had enabled him to win the Giro d'Italia in 1968 . In the 13th lap, Adorni was able to pull away, drove a 75-kilometer solo and won with a lead of over nine minutes, the clearest lead at a World Cup since 1928 . For his victory he had to cope with an average speed of 38.9 km / h. Out of eight German starters, only Rudi Altig (12th) and Karl-Heinz Kunde (13th) crossed the finish line. In front of the home crowd, five Italian drivers placed in the top six.
The women had to complete eleven laps on a five-kilometer circuit and had to deal with scorching heat and gusty winds. The Dutch student Keetie van Oosten-Hage , who had won the bronze medal at the World Track Championships in the 3000 m pursuit a few days earlier , won the road world championship title in a sprint ahead of the Soviet driver Bajba Tsaune . Oosten-Hage had covered the 55.2-kilometer route at 36.8 km / ha. The GDR driver Hannelore Mattig fell 1000 meters from the goal, which she reached only 18th.
Montevideo
The amateur competitions in Montevideo were the first cycling world championships to be held in South America . There were practical reasons for separating the competitions: This solution was chosen because of the Olympic Games in Mexico in October and the associated long journey to Central America. The road race took place on the 20-kilometer Carrasco circuit , which was flat but very windy. 53 drivers from twelve nations started the individual race. The 24-year-old Italian Vittorio Marcelli won in the sprint with an hourly average of 40 km / h. He had previously finished third in the team time trial with the four-man from Italy. The Brazilian Luis Carlos Florès was vice world champion ahead of the Swedish team world champion Erik Pettersson .
The Swedish team with the four Pettersson brothers had won the world championship in team time trial for the second time after 1967. The Swiss team came in surprisingly second ahead of the Italians.
Neither East nor West German athletes competed in either competition. The GDR sports management had already withdrawn their road riders from the individual race at the Olympic Games, after which the road four had disappointingly only finished 13th. Because of the lack of German presence, there was only sparse World Cup coverage in the German media.
Results
Imola
space | Athlete | country | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Keetie van Oosten-Hage | NED | 1:29:06 h |
2 | Bajba Tsaune | URS | ? |
3 | Morena Tartagni | ITA | ? |
4th | Elsy Jacobs | LUX | all ? |
5 | Audrey McElmury | United States | |
6th | Thea Smulders | NED | |
7th | Nina Trofimova | URS | |
8th | Emilija Sonka | URS | |
9 | Nicole Van Den Broeck | BEL | |
10 | Lyuba Zadorozhnaya | URS | |
11 | Anna Konkina | URS | |
12 | Carla Bosio | ITA | |
13 | Beryl Burton | GBR | |
14th | Bernadette Swinnerton | GBR | |
15th | Elisabetta Maffeis | ITA | |
16 | Jacky Barbedette | FRA | |
17th | Maria Cressari | ITA | |
18th | Hannelore Mattig | GDR | |
19th | Hennie Faber-Hondeveld | NED | |
20th | Irma Jussila | FIN |
space | athlete | country | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Vittorio Adorni | ITA | 7:27:39 h |
2 | Herman Van Springel | BEL | + | 9:50 min
3 | Michele Dancelli | ITA | + 10:18 min |
4th | Franco Bitossi | ITA | all + 10:18 min |
5 | Vito Taccone | ITA | |
6th | Felice Gimondi | ITA | |
7th | Raymond Poulidor | FRA | |
8th | Eddy Merckx | BEL | |
9 | Jean Jourden | FRA | |
10 | Lucien Aimar | FRA | |
11 | Jacques Anquetil | FRA | |
12 | Rudi Altig | GER | + 11:07 min |
13 | Karl-Heinz customer | GER | + 12:05 min |
14th | Gianni Motta | ITA | + 12:07 min |
15th | Rik Van Looy | BEL | + 12:07 min |
16 | Joaquim Agostinho | POR | + 15:25 min |
17th | Johny Schleck | LUX | + 18:10 min |
18th | Harry Steevens | NED | + 20:00 min |
19th | Louis Pfenninger | SUI | + 20:00 min |
Montevideo
space | country | athlete | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | SWE |
Erik Pettersson / Gösta Pettersson / Sture Pettersson / Tomas Pettersson |
1:54:48 h |
2 | CHE |
Bruno Hubschmid / Robert Thalmann / Walter Bürki / Erich Spahn |
2:01:20 h |
3 | ITA |
Vittorio Marcelli / Flavio Martini / Giovanni Bramucci / Benito Pigato |
2:02:05 h |
space | athlete | country | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Vittorio Marcelli | ITA | 5:00:24 h |
2 | Luis Carlos Florès | BRA | 5:00:24 h |
3 | Erik Pettersson | SWE | 5:00:24 h |
4th | Martin Rodriguez | COL | every 5:00:24 h |
5 | Mogens Frey | THE | |
6th | Flavio Martini | ITA | |
7th | Verner Blaudzun | THE | |
8th | Arturo Martinez | CHI | |
9 | Constantino Conti | ITA | |
10 | Giovanni Bramucci | ITA | |
... |
literature
- Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 108, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
- Cycling , August / September / November 1968
- German sports echo , September / November 1968