UCI Road World Championships 1975

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 NetherlandsNetherlands NED 1:32:36 h
2 Geneviève Gambillon FranceFrance FRA + 1 s
3 Keetie van Oosten-Hage NetherlandsNetherlands NED same time

Men - professionals

Single road race over 266 km

space athlete country time
1 Hennie Kuiper NetherlandsNetherlands NED 6:39:19 h
(39.968 km / h)
2 Roger De Vlaeminck BelgiumBelgium BEL + 17 s
3 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume FranceFrance FRA same time

Men (amateurs)

Individual road race over 182 km

space athlete country time
1 André Gevers NetherlandsNetherlands NED 4:18:01 h
2 Sven-Åke Nilsson SwedenSweden SWE + 2 s
3 Roberto Ceruti ItalyItaly ITA + 57 s

Team time trial over 100 km

space country Athletes time
1 Poland 1944Poland POLE Tadeusz Mytnik , Mieczysław Nowicki ,
Ryszard Jan Szurkowski , Stanisław Szozda
2:09:07, 1 h
2 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union SUN Gennady Komnatow , Aavo Pikkuus ,
Vladimir Kaminsky , Valeri Tschaplygin
2: 09: 12.6 h
3 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia TCH Petr Matoušek , Vlastimil Moravec ,
Vladimir Vondracek , Petr Buchacek
2: 10: 46.6 h

literature

See also