1973 UCI Road World Championships

The UCI Road World Championships 1973 took place on August 29 and on 1 and 2 September in Barcelona, ​​Spain held on Montjuïc Mountain.

Hazards was on a circuit of 14.6 kilometers in length, which had to cope with the professionals seventeen, male amateurs eleven times and the women four times.

In the pros started 83 riders, of which only 39 reached the finish of the heavy course. World champion Felice Gimondi, which came to meet the gradient rich track and won the race from a group of four outliers out. Later it was said that Eddy Merckx had prevented it, that his compatriot Freddy Maertens, to which he had no cordial relationship, could be world champion. Of the eight German starters were only two in the race, Karl -Heinz sacristan as 28th and Jürgen Chan as 29

The amateurs were 161 riders from 31 countries at the start. It surprisingly dominated the Polish team that represented the Vice World Champion in the road race with Ryszard Szurkowski the world champion and with Stanisław Szozda. During the race it was very hot and windy; decided it was on the slopes of Montjuic. One and a half kilometers from the finish drew Szurkowski a group of four outliers of it. Under the participation of Szurkowski and Szozda the Polish team had been three days earlier won gold in the team time trial, which took place without the participation of a West German team.

Results

Women

Street single race over 58.4 kilometers

Men - professionals

Street single race over 248.659 km

Men ( amateurs)

( 160.6 km )

Men ( amateurs) - Team Time Trial

(100 km)