1934 UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships 1934 were held in Leipzig on 18 August.
Racing
The route led through a circular route of 9.4 kilometers, which had to be driven from the pros 24 times. The race track was pretty flat and was named after a small wood " Scheibenholz Course ". The amateurs went the round of 12 times.
In the road race in the pros 26 drivers were at the start, of which 15 finished the race. The Belgian Karel Kaers won the race in a sprint for himself and was at the age of 20 years, two months and 15 days the youngest champion to date. Until then, he had mainly achieved success in amateur and junior class. In 1934, he achieved an average speed of 37.994 kilometers. Best German was Gerhard Huschke from Berlin, son of Adolf Huschke and father of Thomas Huschke, in fourth place. The other two German competitors were Ludwig Geyer ( 12 ) and Kurt Stöpel ( 13 ). Stöpel had been as well as the two-time Tour winner Antonin Magne crowded in the heat into the home straight into a ditch, the goal reached due to a faulty wheel only in an escort, but was placed at number 13.
World champion of amateurs was the 18 - year-old Dutchman Kees Pellenaars. He drove an average of 41.5 km / h From the German initiators no one came to the finish.