UCI Road World Championships 1970

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The 1970 UCI Road World Championships took place from August 13th to 16th in Leicester , UK .

These road world championships were the first in Great Britain with the participation of professionals . In 1922, an amateur world championship in the form of a time trial was held in London and two track world championships , in Glasgow in 1897 and in Liverpool in 1904 . The world championships - the track competitions had already taken place in Leicester in the days before - were ceremoniously opened on August 6th by Prime Minister Edward Heath . In his speech he recalled that it was a Briton, James Moore, who had won the first cycle race in Saint-Cloud near Paris in 1869 .

In the professional race there were 95 drivers at the start, 69 of whom crossed the finish line. The result of the race was unusual: Belgian Jean-Pierre Monseré , who had become vice world champion of the amateurs last year, was world champion , ahead of the Dane Leif Mortensen , who in turn had become world champion of amateurs the year before. The 21-year-old Monseré was the second youngest world champion to date; the youngest was his compatriot Karel Kaers , who won the title in 1934 . Eddy Merckx sincerely congratulated his compatriot, the popular “Jempi”. The best German in twelfth place was Rolf Wolfshohl .

The team time trial of the amateurs took place on a 25-kilometer route between Leicester and Nottingham, which had to be tackled four times. The West German team finished in a disappointing tenth place after the driver Algis Oleknavicius gave up at kilometer 80. 150 riders from 31 nations competed in the amateurs' individual race, including "countries as unknown to cycling as Chile, Colombia and Uruguay".

The cycling reporter was enthusiastic about the fact that the organizers of the World Cup had put a lot of effort into taking care of the journalists, who brought the newspaper and a cup of tea to their hotel room in the morning.

Results

Women

Single road race over 64 km

space athlete country time
1 Anna Konkina Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS 1: 39: 54.7 h
2 Morena Tartagni ItalyItaly ITA same time
3 Raisa Obodovskaya Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS same time

Men - professionals

Single road race over 271.960 km

space athlete country time
1 Jean-Pierre Monseré BelgiumBelgium BEL 6:33:58 h
(41.061 km / h)
2 Leif Mortensen DenmarkDenmark THE + 2 s
3 Felice Gimondi ItalyItaly ITA same time

Men - amateurs

Single road race over 181.233 km

space athlete country time
1 Jørgen Schmidt DenmarkDenmark THE 4:08:12 h
2 Ludo Van Der Linden BelgiumBelgium BEL + 3 s
3 Tony Gakens BelgiumBelgium BEL + 5 s

Team time trial (96.9 km)

space country team time
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Valery Jardi / Wiktor Sokolow /
Boris Schukow / Valeri Lichatschow
2:12:28 h
(55.351 km / h)
2 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia TCH Jiří Mainus / František Rezac /
Milan Puzrla / Petr Matoušek
2:12:46 h
3 NetherlandsNetherlands NED Fedor den Hertog / Popke Oosterhof /
Tino Tabak / Adri Duyker
2:12:59 h

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References and comments

  1. Seven months after this World Cup, Jean-Pierre Monseré had a fatal accident in a circuit race.
  2. ^ Cycling , August 18, 1970
  3. ^ Cycling , August 11, 1970

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