UCI Road World Championships 1987

Austrian postage stamp for the World Cup

The 54th UCI Road World Championships 1987 took place in early September in the Austrian Villach instead.

Racetrack

The 1987 world championship track ran over an 11.7 kilometer circuit with start and finish in the Villach suburb of Maria Gail . In a south-easterly direction, the route ran to Lake Faak and from there via St. Niklas an der Drau and Großsattel back to Maria Gail. Immediately after the start, there is a first long ascent, and a steep hill with a ten percent gradient rises on the way from Lake Faak to St. Niklas. Overall, the course has a difference in altitude of 113 meters. The professional drivers had to complete 23 laps (272 km), the amateurs drove 15 laps (180 km) in the individual race and the women's individual race ran over six laps (70.2 km).

Racing action

The professional drivers determined the world champion on Sunday, September 6th. The race was accompanied by pouring rain. During the race there were numerous attempts to leave the country, including by the defending champion Moreno Argentin and the German Rolf Gölz . One of the most active drivers, the Dane Rolf Sørensen , initiated the decisive advance on the last lap. He pulled eleven drivers with him, among them the favorite Sean Kelly from Ireland and his compatriot Stephen Roche . While everything concentrated on Kelly in the final sprint, Roche recognized a gap in time and left its competitors behind. After his victories at the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France , he completed the triple . Gölz just missed the podium with fourth place. With Andreas Kappes (16th) and Peter Hilse (45th), two more Germans among the 71 placed were able to finish the race that had originally been started by 168 athletes. Among those who were eliminated were five Germans, including Dietrich Thurau and Reimund Dietzen .

The day before, the women and men had determined the amateur world champions. In the women's race, the French Jeannie Longo was able to defend her title with a lead of twelve seconds. The best German was Ute Enzenauer in 19th place. Longo's compatriot Richard Vivien , who won in a sprint ahead of the German Hartmut Bölts , was the new amateur world champion for men . In hot weather, 182 amateurs started. The Pole Andrzej Mierzejewski was able to pull away from the field for a long time , but was overtaken by a six-man chasing group on the penultimate lap, from which Vivien emerged as the sprint winner.

In the team time trial, a world championship team was determined for the first time among women, the 50 km time trial was won by women from the Soviet Union . The four from Italy won the men’s race .

Results

Professionals

September 6, 272 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Stephen Roche	IRL	6:50:02 h
2	Moreno Argentin	ITA	+ 0:01 min
3	Juan Fernández Martín	ESP	same time
4th	Rolf Goelz	GER	all the same time
5	Sean Kelly	IRL
6th	Steven Rooks	NED
7th	Teun van Vliet	NED
8th	Rolf Sørensen	THE
9	Erik Breukink	NED
10	Claude Criquielion	BEL
11	Guido Winterberg	SUI
12	Jörg Müller	SUI

0

space	athlete	country	time
13	Steve Bauer	CAN	+ 0:01 min
14th	Eric Vanderaerden	BEL	+ 0:40 min
15th	Martial Gayant	FRA	all the same time
16	Paul Popp	AUT
17th	Andreas Kappes	GER
18th	Adrie van der Poel	NED
19th	Marc Sergeant	BEL
20th	Jeff Pierce	United States
0 ...
46	Peter Hilse	GER
0 ...
71	Jozef Lieckens	BEL	+ 1:45 min

Amateurs

Road race (180 km)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Richard Vivien	FRA	4: 12.47 h
2	Hartmut Bölts	GER	same time
3	Alex Pedersen	DNK	same time

Team time trial (100 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Italy	Roberto Fortunato , Eros Poli Mario Scirea , Flavio Vanzella	1: 57.42 h
2	Soviet Union	Viktor Klimov , Asjat Saitow Igor Sumnikov , Evgueni Zagrebelny	+ 0:12 min
3	Austria	Helmut Wechselberger , Bernard Rassinger Mario Traxl , Johann Lienhart	+ 1:59 min

Women

Road race (70.2 km)

space	Athletes	country	Time (h)
1	Jeannie Longo	FRA	1:46:40 h
2	Heleen Hage	NED	+ 0:12 min
3	Connie Meyer	NED	+ 0:12 min

Team time trial (50 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Soviet Union	Nadesja Kibardina , Alla Jakovleva Tamara Poliakova , Liubova Pogovitchaikova	1:05:53 h
2	United States	Inga Thompson , Sue Ehlers Jane Marshall , Leslie Schenk	+ 0:05 min
3	Italy	Francesca Galli , Roberta Bonanomi Imelda Chiappa , Monica Bandini	+ 0:49 min

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 154, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Route description at region.austria.info/at
• Results on les-sports.info