UCI Road World Championships 1984

The 1984 UCI Road World Championships took place on September 2, 1984 in Barcelona , Spain . Because of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984 , only the world champion of professional drivers was determined; the amateur decisions were not made. Instead, the Olympic champions were also counted as world champions.

Racing action

The professional driver's racetrack was 255.5 kilometers long and, like in 1973, when the world championship was also held in Barcelona, ​​led over the 173 meter high Montjuïc mountain with its arduous climb to the Castell. It was very hot with peak temperatures around 40 degrees. These difficult conditions led to the premature retirement of 88 of the 119 drivers who started. In addition to many favorites, all eight German athletes were among those eliminated.

After a solo journey over the last 19 kilometers, the 27-year-old Belgian Claude Criquielion was the new world champion with a lead of 14 seconds over the Italian Claudio Corti . Only one minute later the chasing group arrived, from which Steve Bauer from Canada secured third place. Defending champion Greg LeMond from the USA was only 27 with over three minutes on Criquielion.

The race suffered from considerable organizational deficiencies, among other things, the drivers were repeatedly hindered by spectators streaming onto the track.

Results

Professionals

space	athlete	country	time
1	Claude Criquielion	BEL	6:46:46 h
2	Claudio Corti	ITA	+ 0:14 min
3	Steve Bauer	CAN	+ 1:01 min
4th	Hubert Seiz	SUI	all the same time
5	Bernard Bourreau	FRA
6th	Robert Millar	GBR	+ 1:08 min
7th	Eric Caritoux	FRA	+ 1:12 min
8th	Palmiro Masciarelli	ITA	all the same time
9	Federico Echave	ESP
10	Joop Zoetemelk	NED
11	Ángel Arroyo	ESP	+ 1:27 min
12	Ludo Peeters	BEL	+ 1:53 min
13	Marino Lejarreta	ESP	+ 1:53 min
14th	Dominique Guard	FRA	+ 2:09 min
15th	Bruno Leali	ITA	+2: 28 min
16	Pierre Le Bigaut	FRA	+ 2:28 min

space	athlete	country	time
17th	Moreno Argentin	ITA	+ 3:04 min
18th	Juan Fernández Martín	ESP	all the same time
19th	Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande	BEL
20th	Gianbattista Baronchelli	ITA
21st	José Luis Navarro Martínez	ESP
22nd	Johan van der Velde	NED
23	Niki Rüttimann	SUI
24	Silvano Contini	ITA
25th	José Patrocinio Jiménez	COL
26th	Pedro Muñoz	ESP
27	Greg LeMond	United States
28	Pierino Gavazzi	ITA
29	Alberto Fernández Blanco	ESP
30th	Dag Otto Lauritzen	NOR	+ 6:48 min
31	Godi dirt	SUI	+ 7:17 min

Amateurs, 1984 Olympic Games

Men - street single (190.2 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Alexi Grewal	United States	4: 59: 57.0 h
2	Steve Bauer	CAN	4: 59: 57.0 h
3	Dag Otto Lauritzen	NOR	5:00: 18.0 h

Women - street single (79.2 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Connie Carpenter-Phinney	United States	2: 11: 14.0 h
2	Rebecca Twigg	United States	2: 11: 14.0 h
3	Sandra Schumacher	GER	2: 11: 14.0 h

Team time trial (100 km)

space	country	Athletes	time
1	Italy	Marcello Bartalini , Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli , Claudio Vandelli	1: 58: 28.0 h
2	Switzerland	Alfred Achermann , Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial , Benno Wiss	2: 02: 38.0 h
3	United States	Ronald Kiefel , Roy Knickman Davis Phinney , Andrew Weaver	2: 02: 46.0 h

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 144, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Professional results at www.radsport-seite.de