UCI Road World Championships 1975
The 1975 UCI Road World Championships took place on August 27, 30 and 31 in the Belgian towns of Mettet and Yvoir .
The professional world champion was the Dutchman Hennie Kuiper , who won the gold medal as an amateur at the 1972 Olympic Games road race in Munich. 26 kilometers from the finish, he had pulled away from the front, and since his rivals, including the strong Belgians Roger De Vlaeminck , Eddy Merckx and Lucien Van Impe , eyed each other suspiciously in a ten-man chasing group in his own country, he managed to gain his lead save 17 seconds to the finish.
In the great heat only 28 of 79 starters crossed the finish line; not a single one of the seven German starters. Six drivers gave up, two were disqualified: After a defect, Dietrich Thurau had swapped bikes with Günter Haritz , which was allowed in the big tours, but not in a world championship.
44 women started for the women. As in the World Track Championships, there were no Soviet women at the start who had dominated women's cycling for years. For the first time, two athletes from Lebanon were there.
In the team time trial, the German team took eighth place, which was considered a success after much worse placements in previous years, especially since qualification for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was secured. Last place in this competition went to the popular street foursome from Saudi Arabia , around five minutes behind in first place.
Results
Women
Single road race over 56 km
space | athlete | country | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Tineke Fopma | NED | 1:32:36 h |
2 | Geneviève Gambillon | FRA | + 1 s |
3 | Keetie van Oosten-Hage | NED | same time |
Men - professionals
Single road race over 266 km
space | athlete | country | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Hennie Kuiper | NED | 6:39:19 h (39.968 km / h) |
2 | Roger De Vlaeminck | BEL | + 17 s |
3 | Jean-Pierre Danguillaume | FRA | same time |
Men (amateurs)
Individual road race over 182 km
space | athlete | country | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | André Gevers | NED | 4:18:01 h |
2 | Sven-Åke Nilsson | SWE | + 2 s |
3 | Roberto Ceruti | ITA | + 57 s |
Team time trial over 100 km
space | country | Athletes | time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | POLE |
Tadeusz Mytnik , Mieczysław Nowicki , Ryszard Jan Szurkowski , Stanisław Szozda |
2:09:07, 1 h |
2 | SUN |
Gennady Komnatow , Aavo Pikkuus , Vladimir Kaminsky , Valeri Tschaplygin |
2: 09: 12.6 h |
3 | TCH |
Petr Matoušek , Vlastimil Moravec , Vladimir Vondracek , Petr Buchacek |
2: 10: 46.6 h |
literature
- Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 122, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
- Cycling , August / September 1975