1975 UCI Road World Championships

The UCI Road World Championships 1975 took place in the Belgian places Mettet and Yvoir on the 27th, 30th and 31st August.

World Champion in the pros was the Dutchman Hennie Kuiper, who had won as an amateur at the road race in the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 the gold medal. 26 kilometers from the finish he had settled to the front, and since its competitors, including the powerful Belgian Roger De Vlaeminck, Eddy Merckx and Lucien Van Impe each other suspiciously eyed in their own country, in a ten-man chase group, he succeeded his lead 17 seconds to save the finish.

With large heat came only 28 of 79 starters to the finish; of the seven West German starters, not a single. Six drivers gave up, two were disqualified: If defective, Dietrich Thurau had exchanged with Günter Haritz the wheel, which was allowed in the grand tours, but not at a World Cup.

In the women started 44 riders. As with the Track World Championships were no Soviet women at the start, which had dominated the women's cycling for years. For two athletes from Lebanon were the first time here.

In the team time trial the West German team finished in eighth place, which was considered by much worse rankings in previous years as a success, especially as they also qualified for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal was secured. The last place in this competition took the popular with the public roads of four from Saudi Arabia with about five minutes behind first place.

Results

Women

Street single race over 56 km

Men - professionals

Street single race over 266 km

Men ( amateurs)

Street single race over 182 km

Team time trial over 100 km of