1931 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1931 UCI Road World Championships
took place in Copenhagen
, Denmark
. Unusually, the race was not run as a traditional road race, but rather as an individual time-trial.
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale...
took place in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. Unusually, the race was not run as a traditional road race, but rather as an individual time-trial.
Events Summary
| Men's Events | ||||||
| Professional Road Race | Learco Guerra Learco Guerra Learco Guerra was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1934 Giro d'Italia....  Italy |
4h 53' 43" Media 34,727 km/h |
Ferdinand le Drogo Ferdinand Le Drogo Ferdinand Le Drogo was a French professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his silver medal in the Elite race of the 1931 Road World Championships... |
+ 4' 37" | Albert Büchi Albert Büchi Albert Büchi was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He is most known for his bronze medal in the Elite race of the 1931 Road World Championships.- Palmares :19301931 - Oscar Egg... |
+ 4' 48" |
| Amateur Road Race | Henry Hansen Henry Hansen (cyclist) Henry Hansen was a Danish racing cyclist who won two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics.... |
- | Giuseppe Olmo Giuseppe Olmo Giuseppe Olmo was an Italian road bicycle racer, who once held the world record for an hour's run on a bicycle, with 45.090 km, until it was beaten in 1936. He was born in Celle Ligure.... Italy |
- | Leo Nielsen Leo Nielsen Carl Leo Holger Nielsen was a Danish track cyclist who won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics with Henry Hansen and Orla Jørgensen and a silver medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics with Hansen and Frode Sørensen.... |
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