1929 UCI Road World Championships explained

Venue:Zürich, Switzerland
Date:16 August 1929
Events:2
Previous:Budapest 1928
Next:Liège 1930
Pushpin Map:Switzerland
Pushpin Label:Zürich
Coordinates:47.3744°N 8.5411°W

The 1929 UCI Road World Championships, organized on Friday 16 August 1929, was the ninth edition of the UCI Road World Championships.[1] [2]

It was the second time the championships took place in Zürich, Switzerland after the 1923 edition.[3]

The course, with Zürich as both start and finish place, was around 200km.[4] All 16 professional cyclists finished, with Georges Ronsse -succeeding himself as world champion- reaching an average speed of 29.405 km/h.[5]

In the same period, the 1929 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was organized in the Oerlikon Velodrome in Zürich.

Events summary

Men's Events
Professional Road Race
Georges Ronsse
6h 48' 05"Nicolas Frantz
s.t.Alfredo Binda
s.t.
Amateur Road RacePiero Bertolazzo
-Remo Bertoni
-René Brossy
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See also

References

  1. Web site: Sports 123: Road Cycling: Men: World Championships 1929: Road Race . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110616185211/http://sports123.com/rcy/results/mw-rr-1929.html . 2011-06-16 . 2010-01-30.
  2. Web site: Sports 123: Road Cycling: World Championships: Men: Road Race for Amateurs . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040814043803/http://sports123.com/rcy/mw-rra.html . 2004-08-14 . 2010-01-30.
  3. Web site: 16 April 2024 . World Champ. (Amateur) 1929 . FirstCycling.com . en.
  4. Web site: 16 April 2024 . World Championship RR 1929 . FirstCycling.com . en.
  5. Web site: 16 April 2024 . 3ème Championnat du monde sur route 1929 . Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu . fr.