UCI Road World Championships 1989

1989 World Cup venue: Chambéry

The UCI Road World Championships in 1989 took place at the end of August in the eastern French sub- Alpine town of Chambéry . The professional drivers Greg LeMond (USA), the amateurs Joachim Halupczok (Poland) and the women Jeannie Longo (France) became new world champions .

Racetrack

The world championship course was a circuit with a length of 12.3 kilometers. It led south of Chambéry into the Savoy Alps , where the highest point was reached on the Montagnole Pass at 1,445 meters. The 2700 meter long ascent to the pass has a gradient of seven percent.

Professionals

On August 27, 1989 190 riders started the race, among them active of the Soviet team Alfa Lum, who in 1989 as part of perestroika could participate in professional races for the first time. The temperatures were low and the last third of the race was affected by a storm. The circuit had to be mastered 21 times, so that around 259 kilometers had to be driven. On the eighth lap, a group of nine drivers managed to gain a lead of five minutes at times. In the penultimate lap, the Frenchman Thierry Claveyrolat and the Soviet athlete Dimitri Konyshev made a new attempt, from which a top group of eleven developed, which together led the last lap. At the finish line, five riders took to the final sprint, among them the first two of the 1989 Tour de France , Greg LeMond from the USA and Laurent Fignon from France. The American won the sprint by one wheel ahead of Dimitri Konyshev, while Fignon had already given up and was only sixth. The best German was Peter Hilse in 16th place, just 42 seconds behind. Of the twelve German drivers who started, only five made it to the finish line, the rest, along with another 143 participants, had to pay tribute to the storm.

Placements

space	athlete	country	time
1	Greg LeMond	United States	6:45:59 h
2	Dimitri Konyshev	URS	same time
3	Sean Kelly	IRL	same time
4th	Steven Rooks	NED	same time
5	Thierry claveyrolate	FRA	+ 0:03 min
6th	Laurent Fignon	FRA	+ 0:10 min
7th	Martin Earley	IRL	all the same time
8th	Gianni Bugno	ITA
9	Rolf Sørensen	THE
10	Claude Criquielion	BEL
11	Marino Lejarreta	ESP	+ 0:14 min
12	Raúl Alcalá	MEX	+ 0:42 min
13	Steve Bauer	CAN	+ 0:42 min

0

space	athlete	country	time
14th	Tony Rominger	SUI	+ 0:42 min
15th	Erik Breukink	NED	all the same time
16	Peter Hilse	GER
17th	Camillo Passera	ITA
18th	Federico Echave	ESP
19th	Charly Mottet	FRA
20th	Pedro Delgado	ESP	+ 0:46 min
0 ...
24	Andreas Kappes	GER	+ 1:20 min
26th	Hartmut Bölts	GER	+ 1:24 min
41	Thomas Dürst	GER	+ 12:27 min
42	Darius Kaiser	GER	+ 21:57 min

Amateurs

Road Race (185.2 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Joachim Halupczok	POLE
2	Eric Pichon	FRA
3	Christophe Manin	FRA

100 km team time trial

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	GDR	Mario Kummer , Maik compatriot Jan Schur , Falk Boden
2	Poland	Zenon Jaskuła , Joachim Halupczok Marek Leśniewski , Andrzej Sypytkowski
3	Soviet Union	Yuri Manuilow , Viktor Klimow Evgueni Lagrbelny , Oleg Galkin

Women

Road Race (74.1 km)

space	country	Athlete	Time (h)
1	Jeannie Longo	FRA
2	Catherine Marsal	FRA
3	Maria Canins	ITA

50 km team time trial

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Soviet Union	Natalja Meljochina , Laima Zilporite Nadeshda Kibardina , Tamara Polyakowa
2	Italy	Monica Bandini , Roberta Bonanomi Maria Canins , Francesca Galli
3	France	Valérie Simonnet , Cécile Odin Catherine Marsal , Nathalie Cantet

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 158, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Results professionals at www.museociclismo.it
• Results amateurs at www.radsport-seite.de
• Places 1 to 3 at www.sport-komplett.de