1969 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1969 UCI Road World Championships
took place on 10 August 1969 in Zolder
, Belgium
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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 10 August 1969 in Zolder
Zolder
The Circuit Zolder, also known as Circuit Terlaemen, is an undulating motorsport race track in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.Built in 1963, Zolder hosted the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix on 10 separate occasions in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1980 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix. The F1 circus...
, Belgium
Belgium
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Results
| Race: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze : | Time |
| Men | ||||||
| Men's road race | Harm Ottenbros Harm Ottenbros Harm Ottenbros is a former Dutch road bicycle racer who raced as a professional from 1967 to 1976. Ottenbros is best remembered for capturing the gold medal and rainbow jersey at the 1969 world cycling championship road race in Zolder, Belgium... |
6 h 23 min 44s | Julien Stevens Julien Stevens Julien Stevens is a retired Belgian cyclist who raced from 1963 to 1977. Stevens spent most part of his career employed to help other riders, such as Rik van Steenbergen, Rik van Looy and Eddy Merckx... |
m.t. | Michele Dancelli Michele Dancelli Michele Dancelli is an Italian former road racing cyclist. He was born in Castenedolo, Lombardy.-Professional career:His main victories include one Milan – San Remo , the 1966 Flèche Wallonne, three editions of the Giro dell'Appennino , two Trofeo Laigueglia... |
+ 2 min 18s |
| Amateurs' road race | Leif Mortensen Leif Mortensen Leif Mortensen is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :196719681969... |
- | Jean-Pierre Monséré Jean-Pierre Monseré Jean-Pierre "Jempi" Monseré was a Belgian road racing cyclist who died while champion of the world.... |
- | Gustave Van Roosbroeck |
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| Team time trial | Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson Gösta Pettersson Gösta Pettersson is a Swedish former professional road racing cyclist and three-time Olympic medalist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1971 Giro d'Italia... Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson |
- | Mogens Frey Mogens Frey Mogens Frey Jensen is a retired Danish road bicycle racer. Frey won, along with Gunnar Asmussen, Per Lyngemark, and Reno Olsen the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in 4 km team pursuit. However, he is more famous for the way he won stage 9 in the 1970 Tour de France. Here, he defeated... Joergen Hansen Joergen Lund Leif Mortensen Leif Mortensen Leif Mortensen is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :196719681969... |
- | Xavier Kurmann Bruno Hubschmid Josef Fuchs Walter Burki |
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| Women | ||||||
| Women's road race | Audrey McElmury Audrey McElmury Audrey McElmury was the first American to win the world road cycling championship. She won in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1969, having fallen and remounted her bike... |
- | Bernadette Swinnerton Bernadette Swinnerton Bernadette Swinnerton was an English racing cyclist. She came second in the 1969 world road championship in Czechoslovakia, 1m 10s behind Audrey McElmury.... |
- | Nina Trofimova |
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Medal table
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
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