UCI Road World Championships 1980

The UCI Road World Championships 1980 were held in the 30 and 31 August the French Sallanches instead.

Since the Olympic Games took place in Moscow in 1980 , only the non-Olympic competitions were held at the World Championships in France, the women's and professional races . These races were held on a 13.4-kilometer circuit that the women had to complete four times and the professional drivers 20 times. The highest point was the 796 meter high Côte de Domancy with a maximum gradient of 16.7 percent.

For the professionals, 107 participants from 18 nations took part, including six German drivers. Only 15 racing drivers, none of them German, mastered the difficult 268-kilometer circuit, the last two 20 minutes behind the first. Gregor Braun was considered a possible German title contender, but he gave up in the fourth round. The French Bernard Hinault became world champion .

In the women's race, 72 riders from 14 nations competed, including a six-man team from China, which was represented at a cycling world championship for the first time. The team of the Federation of German Cyclists expected the 22-year-old Beate Habetz to have good chances in advance ; However, she was only 26th with a gap of over seven minutes on the new world champion, the US American Beth Heiden . 61 riders reached the finish. A leading group of four had recently formed, from which the allocation of places in the finish sprint resulted. For Heiden, who, in the opinion of cycling, “seemed like the course was written for the slim body”, the World Cup victory was “more than a consolation prize”, as she missed gold as a speed skater at the 1980 Winter Olympics .

Olympic champion and world champion at the same time were the Soviet driver Sergei Sukhorutschenkow in the road individual and the Soviet Union in the team time trial .

Results

Women

Individual road race over 53.6 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Beth heathen	United States	1:45:15 h (30.555 km / h)
2	Tuulikki years	SWE	same time
3	Mandy Jones	GBR	same time

Men - professionals

Single road race over 268 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Bernard Hinault	FRA	7:32:16 h (35.554 km / h)
2	Gianbattista Baronchelli	ITA	+ 1.11 min
3	Juan Fernández Martín	ESP	+ 4.25 min

Amateurs (1980 Olympic Games)

Men - Individual Road Race (189 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov	URS	4: 48: 28.9 h
2	Czeslaw Lang	POLE	4:51:26 h
3	Yuri Barinov	URS	4:51:26 h

Team time trial (101 km)

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Soviet Union	Anatoly Jarkin Yuri Kashirin Oleg Logwin Sergei Schelpakow	2:01:21.74 h
2	GDR	Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Hans-Joachim Hartnick Olaf Ludwig	2: 02: 53.19 h
3	Czechoslovakia	Michal Klasa Vlastibor Konečný Alipi Kostadinov Jiří Škoda	2:02: 53.89 h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , September 3, 1980, p. 4

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 136, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1980

See also

• UCI Track World Championships 1980