UCI Road World Championships 1985

The 1985 UCI Road World Championships were held in Giavera del Montello , Italy from August 29th to September 1st .

Racing action

The professional drivers had to cover 265.5 kilometers on the easy-to-manage world championship course, which only showed a slight ascent with the L'Angelo Piccolo. During the race, a leading group formed which included five Italians and the German driver Rolf Gölz . The world championship debutant started a breakaway attempt at kilometer 225, with which he was able to set himself apart from the other drivers for 20 kilometers. Two kilometers from the finish, the Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk managed to outrun the 14-strong top group. The other drivers obviously did not take this action by the 38-year-old seriously enough, and so he managed to pull out a lead of 100 meters shortly before the finish. This was enough to finally cross the target line three seconds before his pursuers. Rolf Gölz was the only one of eight Germans who started and finished 15th. A total of 66 drivers made it to the finish.

Among the amateurs, who had to drive 177 kilometers, a field of 188 participants started the race. 83 crossed the finish line, the fastest was 23-year-old Pole Lech Piasecki . The team time trial was won by the four-man from the Soviet Union , in the women's field, where 91 athletes took to the 73.8-kilometer World Championship course, the 25-year-old French Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli became the new world champion. For the Association of German Cyclists, six riders were among the 87 who had survived the race. Sandra Schumacher was the best German in third place.

Results

Professionals

September 1 (265.5 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Joop Zoetemelk	NED	6:26:38 h
2	Greg LeMond	United States	+ 0:03 min
3	Moreno Argentin	ITA	+ 0:03 min
4th	Marc Madiot	FRA	all the same time
5	Harald Maier	AUT
6th	Juan Fernández Martín	ESP
7th	Stephen Roche	IRL
8th	Jörg Müller	SUI
9	Johan van der Velde	NED
10	Robert Millar	GBR
11	Claudio Corti	ITA

0

space	athlete	country	time
12	Claude Criquielion	BEL	+ 0:03 min
13	Gerard Veldscholten	NED
14th	Kim Andersen	THE	+ 0:13 min
15th	Rolf Goelz	GER	all the same time
16	Acácio da Silva	POR
17th	José Francisco Maraldo	COL
18th	José Luis Navarro	ESP
19th	Pierino Gavazzi	ITA	+1: 05 min
20th	Steve Bauer	CAN	+ 1:05 min
0 ...
66	Alan McCormack	IRL	+ 4:07 min

Amateurs

August 29, team time trial (100 km)

space	country	Athletes
1	Soviet Union	Aleksander Zinowiew , Igor Sumnikow Viktor Klimow , Wasilij Żdanow
2	Czechoslovakia	Vladimír Hrůza , Milan Křen Michal Klasa , Milan Jurčo
3	Italy	Eros Poli , Claudio Vandelli, Massimo Podenzana , Marcello Bartalini

August 31, road race (177 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Lech Piasecki	POLE	4:18:39 h
2	Johnny Weltz	THE
3	Frank Van De Vijver	BEL
4th	Rolf Sørensen	THE
5	Maurizio Fondriest	ITA
0 ...

Women

August 31, road race (73.8 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	FRA	1:53:10 h
2	Maria Canins	ITA	+ 0:47 min
3	Sandra Schumacher	GER	+ 0:47 min
4th	Valerie Simonnet	FRA	all the same time
5	Marie Höljer	SWE
6th	Dominique Damiani	FRA
7th	Roberta Bonanomi	ITA
8th	Virginie Lafargue	FRA
9	Kathleen Shannon	OUT
10	Stefania Carmine	SUI
0 ...
14th	Ute Enzenauer	GER	+ 0:47 min
25th	Birgit Förstl	GER	+ 3:34 min
45	Ines Varenkamp	GER	+ 5:18 min
55	Petra Stegherr	GER	+ 7:26 min
69	Viola Paulitz	GER	+ 10:38 min
0 ...
87	Yvonn Elkuch	LIE	+ 13:05 min

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 146, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Results professionals
• Results women
• Results amateurs
• Results team time trial