1979 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1979 UCI Road World Championships
took place on 26 August 1979 in Valkenburg
, the Netherlands
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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 26 August 1979 in Valkenburg
Valkenburg aan de Geul
Valkenburg aan de Geul is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.-History:Siege and conquest were characteristic of the history of Valkenburg. Each event is withheld, followed by subsequent restorations. This most definitely holds for the castle perched atop of a hill in the middle of the...
, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Results
| Race: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze : | Time |
| Men | ||||||
| Men's road race | Jan Raas Jan Raas Jan Raas is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg, he also won the Ronde van Vlaanderen in 1979 and 1983, Paris–Roubaix in 1982 and Milan – San Remo in 1977. He won ten stages in the Tour de France... |
7.03'09" | Dietrich Thurau Dietrich Thurau Dietrich Thurau is a retired German professional road bicycle racer. His biggest career achievements include winning the one-day classic, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, his home country's Deutschland Tour and surprising the field at the 1977 Tour de France by capturing four stages and holding the yellow... |
- | Jean-René Bernaudeau Jean-René Bernaudeau Jean-René Bernaudeau is a French former professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1978 to 1988. Bernaudeau is currently directeur sportif of the Team Europcar cycling team... |
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| Amateurs' road race | Gianni Giacomini |
- | Jan Jankiewicz |
- | Bernd Drogan |
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| Team time trial | Bernd Drogan Hans-Joachim Hartnick Andreas Petermann Falk Boden |
- | Jan Jankiewicz Czesław Lang Stefan Ciekanski Witold Plutecki |
- | Geir Digerud Morten Saether Jostein Wilmann Jostein Wilmann Jostein Wilmann is a former Norwegian professional road racing cyclist. His best performance came in the Tour de France of 1980, where he finished 14th overall. This is still the best result any Norwegian cyclist has achieved in the Tour de France general classification.-External links:... Hans-Peter Odegaard |
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| Women | ||||||
| Women's road race | Petra De Bruin Petra de Bruin Petra de Bruin is a Dutch former cyclist from Nieuwkoop The Netherlands, won World Cycling Championships Road Race in 1979.Petra de Bruin was selected as Dutch Sportsman of the year in 1979.... |
- | Jen De Smet |
- | Beate Habetz |
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Medal table
| 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
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