UCI Road World Championships 1982

The 1982 UCI Road World Championships took place on September 1st, 4th and 5th on the British Goodwood Circuit .

Racing action

The professionals had 136 riders at the start, of which only 55 reached the finish line after 18 laps of 15.3 kilometers each. World champion was the Italian Giuseppe Saronni . The former world champions Freddy Maertens and Bernard Hinault were among those who left early . Nine West German professionals were at the start, four reached the finish, of which Klaus-Peter Thaler was the best in eighth place.

126 riders started in the amateurs, 118 of whom were able to place, won by GDR rider Bernd Drogan . In the women's race, 69 out of 81 riders crossed the finish line. The best West German was the 15-year-old Sandra Schumacher in fourth place. The team from the Netherlands won the team time trial , the German street four with Thomas Freienstein , Dieter Flögel , Michael Marx and Bernd Oldenburg took ninth place. Many four-mans had only finished the race in three because of bad weather conditions; The fourth driver, Oldenburg, pulled out of the West German foursome during the first kilometer.

The viewers were particularly pleased with the victory of British racing driver Mandy Jones in the women's road race .

The Frankfurt cycling journalist Helmer Boelsen reported that the working conditions for his colleagues on site were extremely poor. There was an extra grandstand for them, but there was no view of the track from there. The photographers got into trouble with the police, a Dutch photographer was jailed for one night and others had to pay fines. Cycling officials also had arguments with the police.

Results

Women

Single road race over 61.14 km

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Mandy Jones	GBR	1:13:00 h
2	Maria Canins	ITA	+ 10 s
3	Gerda Sierens	BEL	+ 10 s

Men - professionals

Single road race over 275 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Giuseppe Saronni	ITA	6:42:22 h (41.026 km / h)
2	Greg LeMond	United States	+ 5 s
3	Sean Kelly	IRL	+ 7 s

Men (amateurs)

Single road race over 183.43 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Bernd Drogan	GDR	4:17:48 h
2	Francis Vermaelen	BEL	+ 8 s
3	Juerg Bruggmann	SUI	+ 8 s

Team time trial over 100 km

space	country	Athletes	time
1	NLD	Marteen Ducrot / Gerard Schipper / Gerrit Solleveld / Frits van Bindsbergen	2:14:09 h
2	SUI	Alfred Achermann / Daniel Heggli / Richard Trinkler / Urs Zimmermann	2:14:46 h
3	URS	Yuri Kaschirin / Oleg Logwin / Sergej Voronin / Oleg Tschugda	2:14:53 h

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 140, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1982

See also

• UCI Track World Championships 1982