1948 UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships 1948 took place on August 22 as it was ten years ago held in Valkenburg, the Netherlands.
Racing
37 professional drivers were at the start of the 266.8 km long racetrack, and how ten years ago was the elfprozentige slope to Cauberg for most assets to prove an insurmountable handicap. The 1500 meter long climb had to be tackled 28 times, 27 drivers got out prematurely. The finish was a duel between the Belgian Alberic Schotte and the Frenchman Apo Lazarides, which ruled the 28- year-old Scot with a lead of ten meters for itself. He had an average speed of 35.8 km / h The third, Lucien Teisseire, also from France, already had a backlog of nearly four minutes. The following drivers came with large residues to the finish, the last, Huub Syen from the Netherlands, reached 14 minutes behind the goal.
In the amateurs who had to drive 180 kilometers, won by 1921 ( Gunnar Sköld ) with the 31 -year-old Harry Snell for the second time a Swede the road world championship. The Swedish champion drove an average speed of 34.2 kilometers.
German drivers were still excluded from international racing, as there was no national association at that time.