1988 UCI Road World Championships

The 55th UCI Road World Championships 1988 were held in August 28 Belgian Ronse instead. With the exception of the women's team time trial, the results of the road cycling competitions at the 1988 Seoul Olympics were also counted towards the world championship.

Racing action

The professional drivers had to tackle a 13.57-kilometer circuit 20 times. In the 16th lap a breakaway group formed, in which the German Rolf Gölz also rode. One lap later, this and three other drivers managed to break away from the group. In the third to last lap, however, the four were caught up again and a new group of 14 drivers formed, who stayed together until the last lap. Before the finish line, the Belgian Claude Criquielion , the Italian Maurizio Fondriest and the Canadian Steve Bauer broke up and started the final sprint. The Belgian and Canadian clashed and Criquielion fell. The beneficiary was Maurizio Fondriest, who was the first to cross the finish line. Bauer was then disqualified, and Criquielion, frustrated, pushed his machine over the line in eleventh place. There was tumult among the disappointed Belgian spectators. The German Hartmut Bölts just missed the podium with fourth place. Rolf Gölz, one of the favorites before the race and one of the most active in the field afterwards, had to be content with a disappointing 68th place in the end, even behind his compatriot Andreas Kappes , who came in 50th. The remaining five German drivers were among the 99 eliminated.

Results

Professionals

August 28, 274 km

space	athlete	country	time
1	Maurizio Fondriest	ITA	7:02:11 h
2	Martial Gayant	FRA	+ 0:27 min
3	Juan Fernández Martín	ESP	+ 0:41 min
4th	Hartmut Bölts	GER	all the same time
5	Mauro Gianetti	SUI
6th	Ronan Pensec	FRA
7th	Davide Cassani	ITA
8th	Laurent Fignon	FRA
9	Jaanus Kuum	NOR	+ 0:46 min
10	Allan Peiper	OUT	+ 0:55 min
11	Claude Criquielion	BEL	+ 1:00 min
12	Thomas Wegmüller	SUI	+ 1:12 min
13	Eddy Planckaert	BEL	+ 1:48 min

0

space	athlete	country	time
14th	Stefano Colage	ITA	all the same time
15th	Manuel-Jorge Dominguez	ESP
16	Ron Kiefel	United States
17th	Rolf Sørensen	THE
18th	Acácio da Silva	POR
19th	Gert-Jan Theunisse	NED
20th	Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande	BEL
0 ...
50	Andreas Kappes	GER
68	Rolf Goelz	GER
0 ...
79	Edgar Corredor Alvarez	COL	+ 8:58 min

Women

Team time trial (50 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Italy	Monica Bandini , Roberta Bonanomi , Maria Canins , Francesca Galli	?
2	Soviet Union	Alla Jakovleva , Nadesja Kibardina , Svetlana Rojkova , Laima Zilporite	?
3	United States	Jeannie Golay , Phyllis Hines , Jane Marshall , Leslie Schenk	?

1988 Olympic Games

Men - street single (190.2 km)

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Olaf Ludwig	GDR	4:32:22
2	Bernd Gröne	GER	4:32:25 h
3	Christian Henn	GER	4:32:46

Women - street singles (70 km)

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Monique Knol	NED	2:00:52
2	Jutta Niehaus	GER	2:00:52
3	Laima Zilporytė	URS	2:00:52

Team time trial (men, 100 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	GDR	Uwe Ampler , Mario Kummer , Maik Landsmann , Jan Schur	1: 57: 47.7
2	Poland	Joachim Halupczok , Zenon Jaskuła , Marek Leśniewski , Andrzej Sypytkowski	1: 57: 54.2
3	Sweden	Jarl , Björn Johansson , Jan Karlsson , Michel Lafis are different	1: 59: 47.3

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 156, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Results professionals at www.the-sports.org
• Results women 50 km at www.radsportseiten.net

See also

• 1988 Summer Olympics / Cycling