UCI Road World Championships 1972

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The UCI Road World Championships 1972 were held in the 5 and 6 August French Gap instead. Because of the Olympic Games in Munich in the same year, only two competitions were held, the professional and the women's race. For the amateurs , the Olympic cycling races were also classified as a world championship.

Racing action

The route in Gap was a 15.142-kilometer circuit that the professionals had to complete 18 times and the women four times.

In the professional race, 89 drivers started, of which less than half - 42 - made it to the finish. The race was decided by a sprint from a ten-man leading group. Favorite Eddy Merckx , whose two helpers had to give up, tried several times in vain to move forward. A few meters from the finish, the Italian Franco Bitossi already looked like the sure winner, but was overtaken by his compatriot Marino Basso at the last second . The best German was Karl-Heinz Muddemann in 13th place.

For women, the victorious French Geneviève Gambillon who was himself surprised by the strong Soviet riders, including two-time world champion Anna Konkina to have left behind. The cycling industry wrote appreciatively: "The young French woman Gambillon liked her rational driving style and tactical cleverness."

Results

Women

Single road race over 60.572 km

space athlete country time
1 Geneviève Gambillon FranceFrance FRA 1:38:41 h
(26.828 km / h)
2 Lyubov Tsadurotsnaya Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS same time
3 Raisa Obodovskaya Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS same time

Men - professionals

Single road race over 272.574 km

space athlete country time
1 Marino Basso ItalyItaly ITA 7:05:59 h
(38.392 km / h)
2 Franco Bitossi ItalyItaly ITA same time
3 Cyrille Guimard FranceFrance FRA same time

Amateurs (1972 Olympic Games)

Men - Individual Road Race (182.4 km)

space athlete country time
1 Hennie Kuiper NetherlandsNetherlands NED 4:14:37 h
2 Clyde Sefton AustraliaAustralia OUT 4:15:04 h
3 not forgiven - -

Team time trial (100 km)

space country team time
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS Valery Jardy , Gennady Komnatov ,
Valery Likhachev , Boris Zhukov 		2: 11: 17.8 h
2 Poland 1944Poland POLE Edward Barcik , Lucjan Lis ,
Stanisław Szozda , Ryszard Szurkowski 		2: 11: 47.5 h
3 - not forgiven -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.radsport-seite.de/wm_strasse_amateure.html
  2. ^ Cycling , August 9, 1972

literature

See also