1952 UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships 1952 took place in Luxembourg on 23 and 24 August.
Racing
For the first time in the history of professional road world championships existed with the 27 -year-old Heinz Müller from the team builder a German winner. 48 professional drivers were the 280 km long undemanding track, a round trip of 16 kilometers, tackled. On the 17 laps although there were breakaways, but in the 13th round of the main draw was reunited closed and controlled to the target. In the sprint of the hitherto little-known Müller was able to demonstrate its speed. To tire strength, he referred to the Swiss Gottfried Weilenmann to second place. Mueller came to an average speed of 39.45 km / h The German success made teammate Ludwig Hörmann as a third party completely. There was a simultaneous pile of 31 other riders, of which 19 were put together with the German Werner Holhoffer together in 11th place. The fourth to the finish Come German Valentin Petry landed at No. 30 Henry Black and Peter Schulte retired after the ninth round. With them another eight riders had abandoned the race prematurely.
A day earlier had identified about 175 km to their new world champion 113 amateur riders from 23 countries. With an average speed of 40.048 km / h and a narrow margin won the 22- year-old Italian Luciano Ciancola. Although the Dutchman Piet van den Brekel came in second place, but was disqualified for illegal wheel change it later. German driver played no role in the race. While the GDR had sent no participants came from six West German drivers only Tüller Horst and Francis Reitz with the peloton across the finish line, Maue had resigned prematurely.