1966 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1966 UCI Road World Championships
took place on 28 August 1966 at the Nürburgring
, Germany
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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 on 28 August 1966 at the Nürburgring
Nürburgring
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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Results
| Race: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze : | Time |
| Men | ||||||
| Men's road race | Rudi Altig Rudi Altig Rudi Altig is a former professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. He is now a television commentator.-Amateur career:... |
7 h 21 min 10s | Jacques Anquetil Jacques Anquetil Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964... |
m.t. | Raymond Poulidor Raymond Poulidor Raymond Poulidor , is a former professional bicycle racer. He was known as the eternal second, because he finished the Tour de France in second place three times, and in third place five times, including his final Tour at the age of 40... |
m.t. |
| Amateurs' road race | Evert Dolman Evert Dolman Evert Gerardus Dolman was a Dutch racing cyclist, who won the gold medal in the men's 100 km team trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, alongside Gerben Karstens, Bart Zoet, and Jan Pieterse... |
- | Leslie West Leslie West Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West... |
- | Willy Skibby |
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| Team time trial | Werner Blaudzun Joergen Hansen Ole Hojlund Flemming Wisborg |
- | Eddy Beugels Tiemen Groen Harry Steevens Rini Wagtmans Rini Wagtmans Marinus Wagtmans is a former Dutch professional road bicycle racer. He was the nephew of Wout Wagtmans, a former professional who had won the Tour de Romandie stage race in 1952. His father was a masseur while Tour de France stage winner Wim van Est was his neighbour. In 1968 Rini turned... |
- | Attilio Benfatto Luciano Dalla Bona Mino Denti Pietro Guerra Pietro Guerra Pietro Guerra was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Guerra joined the 1964 Summer Olympics in the Team time trial event, where he finished in 2nd place and won the silver medal.... |
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| Women | ||||||
| Women's road race | Yvonne Reynders Yvonne Reynders Yvonne Reynders is a former track and road cyclist from Belgium. With Beryl Burton of Great Britain, Reynders was one of the top female road riders of the 1960s... |
- | Keetie van Oosten-Hage Keetie van Oosten-Hage Cornelia Hage, known by her married name Keetie van Oosten-Hage, is a Dutch former cyclist from Sint-Maartensdijk, Zeeland. She came from a family of cyclists, sister of Bella Hage, Heleen Hage and Ciska Hage, and aunt to Jan van Velzen... |
- | Aino Pourenen |
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Medal table
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
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