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