1980 UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships 1980 took place in the French Sallanches on 30 and 31 August.
Since 1980 Moscow Olympic Games took place at the World Championships in France, only non-Olympic competitions were held, the race of women and the professionals. These races were held on a 13.400 km long circuit that had four times and professional drivers take 20 times the women. The highest point was the 796 meter high Côte de Domancy with a maximum gradient of 16.7 per cent.
The professionals were 107 participants from 18 nations at the start, among them six German drivers. Only 15 racers, among them no German, coped with the heavy 268 km long course, the two last 20 minutes behind the first. As a possible German title aspirant was Gregory Brown, but gave up as early as the fourth round. World champion, Frenchman Bernard Hinault.
The women were 72 riders from 14 nations at the start, including a six-person team from China, which was first represented at a World Cycling Championships. The crew of the Federal German cyclist figured out in advance a good chance for the 22 -year-old Beate Habetz from; but it was only 26, with a gap of about seven minutes to the new world champion, the US-American Beth Heiden. 61 riders crossed the finish line. It had recently been formed a leading group of four, from which the final sprint resulted in the allocation of places. For pagans, the " seemed written on the course as the slender body" of cycling 's view, was the championship-winning "more than a consolation prize ," she had missed as a speed skater at the 1980 Winter Olympics gold.
Olympic gold medalist and world champion at the same time were in the street Single of the Soviet driver Sergei Suchorutschenkow and in the team time trial the Soviet Union.
Results
Women
Street single race over 53.6 kilometers
Men - professionals
Street single race over 268 km