UCI Road World Championships 1990

The 1990 UCI Road World Championships were held for the first time in Asia in Utsunomiya , Japan , from the end of August to the beginning of September . As a world champion in were professional drivers of Belgian Rudy Dhaenens in the amateurs Mirco Gualdi from Italy and among women the Frenchwoman Catherine Marsal determined. In the team decisions, the Soviet Union won the men and the Netherlands won the women.

Professionals

The field of 145 professional drivers had to cover a distance of 261 kilometers and complete 18 laps. After the political change in 1989 , five professionals from the GDR started for the first time . In the early stages of the race, a top group of 20 formed, from which the two Belgians Rudy Dhaenens and Dirk De Wolf were able to break away ten kilometers from the finish . Almost always driving in the slipstream of De Wolf, Dhaenens won the final sprint. Eight seconds later, the chasing field followed, in which the German Andreas Kappes was. He crossed the finish line in eighth place, while Mario Kummer finished the race 45 seconds behind as the best GDR driver. Only 57 drivers crossed the finish line, including the West Germans Peter Hilse (31st) and Darius Kaiser (49th) and the second GDR driver Uwe Ampler .

Placements

space	athlete	country	time
1	Rudy Dhaenens	BEL	6:51:59
2	Dirk De Wolf	BEL	same time
3	Gianni Bugno	ITA	+ 0:08 min
4th	Greg LeMond	United States	all the same time
5	Sean Kelly	IRL
6th	Laurent Jalabert	FRA
7th	Johnny Weltz	THE
8th	Andreas Kappes	GER
9	Maurizio Fondriest	ITA
10	Claude Criquielion	BEL
11	Piotr Ugrumov	LAT
12	Miguel Indurain	ESP
13	Marek Szerzynski	POLE
14th	Federico Echave	ESP

0

space	athlete	country	time
15th	Pello Ruiz Cabestany	ESP	+ 00:08 min
16	Joachim Halupczok	POLE	all the same time
17th	Iñaki Gastón	ESP
18th	Martial Gayant	FRA
19th	Steve Bauer	CAN
20th	Pedro Delgado	ESP
0 ...
25th	Mario grief	GDR	+ 00:45 min
31	Peter Hilse	GER	+ 00:45 min
33	Uwe Ampler	GDR	+ 00:45 min
49	Darius Kaiser	GER	+ 13:14 min
0 ...
57	Masatoshi Ishikawa	JPN	+ 16:29 min

Amateurs

Men, road racing (174.0 km)

space	Athletes	country	time
1	Mirco Gualdi	ITA	4:39:17 h
2	Roberto Caruso	ITA	+ 0:54 min
3	Jean-Philippe Dojwa	FRA	+ 0:56 min

100 km team time trial

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Soviet Union	Oleg Galkin , Ruslan Zotow Igor Patenko , Aleksander Markowicz	1:56:50
2	GDR	Maik Landsmann , Uwe Peschel Uwe Berndt , Falk Boden	1:57:05
3	Germany	Rolf Aldag , Kai Hundertmarck Raimund Lehnert , Michael Rich	1:57:09

Women

Road race (72.5 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Catherine Marsal	FRA	2:00:07 h
2	Ruthie Matthes	United States	+ 3:24 min
3	Louisa Seghezzi	ITA	+ 3:24 min

50 km team time trial

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Netherlands	Leontin van Moorsel , Monique Knol Cora Westland , Astrid Schop	1:03:51
2	United States	Inga Thompson , Eva Stephenson Phyllis Hines , Maureen Manley	1:04:07
3	Soviet Union	Natalja Chipaeva , Nadejda Kibardina Valentina Polkhanova , Natalja Meljochina	1:04:21

literature

• Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007, p. 160, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4

Web links

• Professionals at www.radsport-seite.de
• Results amateurs at www.radsport-seite.de
• Results women at www.the-sports.org