1929 UCI Road World Championships

1929 UCI Road World Championships
Zürich is located in Switzerland
Zürich
Zürich
VenueZürich, Switzerland Switzerland
Date(s) (1929-08-16)16 August 1929
Coordinates47°22′28″N 08°32′28″E / 47.37444°N 8.54111°E / 47.37444; 8.54111
Events2

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.

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  2. ^ "Sports 123: Road Cycling: World Championships: Men: Road Race for Amateurs". Archived from the original on 2004-08-14. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
  3. ^ "World Champ. (Amateur) 1929". FirstCycling.com. 16 April 2024.
  4. ^ "World Championship RR 1929". FirstCycling.com. 16 April 2024.
  5. ^ "3ème Championnat du monde sur route 1929". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). 16 April 2024.