UCI Road World Championships 1983

The UCI Road World Championships 1983 were held in August 31 and on September 3 and 4 Swiss Altenrhein instead.

Racing action

The race went over a circuit of 14.995 kilometers. Experts rated it as "difficult and demanding". The women drove the course four times , the amateurs twelve times and the professionals 18 times.

Greg LeMond surprisingly became the first American professional road world champion, thus belittling all those who had predicted that only a driver with a strong team behind him could win on the difficult course. LeMond could only rely on three internationally inexperienced compatriots. The European cycling federations, on the other hand, had promised their stars high sums in the event of a victory. The podium at this road world championship was as young as seldom: LeMond was only 22, the second Adrie van der Poel 24, Stephen Roche 23 years old.

In the professional decision, eight West German athletes, including Gregor Braun , were among the 177 participants. In the end, all Germans were among the 31 drivers who ended the race early. The German Cycling Association of the GDR was represented by seven riders among the amateurs . In addition to the winner Uwe Raab , Thomas Barth , Olaf Ludwig and Falk Boden placed four DRSV players in the top ten of the individual race, in which only 68 of 157 starters reached the finish. For women, 69 out of 75 riders made it to the finish line; best representative of the Association of German Cyclists was Beate Habetz in ninth place.

The course for the team time trial led over the Autobahn from Altenrhein to Monlingen, where there was a turn and a drive back. The representation of the GDR - consisting of Bernd Drogan , Boden, Ludwig and Raab - finished sixth with 3:38 minutes on the winner of the USSR. The West German four in the line-up Dieter Burkhardt , Thomas Freienstein , Michael Marx and Hartmut Bölts needed another three and a half minutes more for the route and ended up in 15th place.

Results

Women

Single road race over 59.976 km

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Marianne Berglund	SWE	1:38:17 h
2	Rebecca Twigg	United States	same time
3	Maria Canins	ITA	same time

Men - professionals

Single road race over 269.892 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Greg LeMond	United States	7:01:21 h (38.432 km / h)
2	Adrie van der Poel	NED	+ 1:11 min
3	Stephen Roche	IRL	same time

Men (amateurs)

Single road race over 179.928 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Uwe Raab	GDR	4:31:53 h (39.759 km / h)
2	Niki Rüttimann	SUI	same time
3	Andrzej Serediuk	POLE	+ 0:04 min

Team time trial over 100 km

space	country	Athletes	time
1	SUN	Yuri Kaschirin , Sergej Novolokin , Oleg Tschugda , Alexander Tsinowjew	1:59:12 h
2	SUI	Daniel Heggli , Heinz Imboden , Othmar Häfliger , Benno Wiss	+ 1:14 min
3	NOR	Terje Gjengaar , Dag Hopen , Hans-Peter Odegaard , Tom Pedersen	+ 2:17 min

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , August 17, 1983, p. 17

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 142, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4
• Cycling , August / September 1983
• Sport 83 - A Yearbook of GDR Sports , Sportverlag Berlin 1984, p. 268

See also

• UCI track world championships 1983