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1972 World Pro Road Cycling Championships
39th edition: Sunday, August 6, 1972
Gap, France
World Road Cycling Championships podium history | 1973 edition | 1971 edition |
89 riders started, 42 classified finishers.
18 laps of 14.031 km totalling 272.5km. Winner's average speed: 38.39 km/hr
Marino Basso in his rainbow jersey racing the 1973 Coppa Placci
Complete Results:
- Marino Basso (Italy) 7hr 5min 59sec
- Franco Bitossi (Italy) s.t.
- Cyrille guimard (France) s.t.
- Eddy Merckx (Belgium) s.t.
- Joop Zoetemelk (Netherlands) s.t.
- Michele Dancelli (Italy) s.t.
- Leif Mortensen (Denmark) s.t.
- Frans Verbeeck (Belgium) s.t.
- Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (France) @ 1min 7sec
- Felice Gimondi (Italy) s.t.
- Wladimiro Panizza (Italy) @ 1min 9sec
- Roger de Vlaeminck (Belgium) @ 1min 14sec
- Karl-Heinz Muddeman (Germany) @ 2min 4sec
- Domingo Perurena (Spain) @ 4min 43sec
- Santiago Lazcano (Spain) @ 4min 45sec
- Wilfried Peffgen (Germany) @ 10min 1sec
- Raymond Riotte (France) s.t.
- Barry Hoban (Great Britain) s.t.
- Michel Perin (France) s.t.
- Johnny Schleck (Luxembourg) s.t.
- Wim Prinsen (Netherlands) s.t.
- Sid Barras (Great Britain) s.t.
- Marinus Wagtmans (Netherlands) s.t.
- Augustin Tamames (Spain) s.t.
- Colin Lewis (Great Britain) s.t.
- Vicente Lopez Carril (Spain) s.t.
- Louis Pfenninger (Switzerland) s.t.
- Kurt Ruub (Switzerland) s.t.
- Roland Berland (France) s.t.
- Giancarlo Polidori (Italy) s.t.
- Antonio Martos (Spain) s.t.
- Yves Hézard (France) s.t.
- Raymond Poulidor (France) s.t.
- Gianni Motta (Italy) s.t.
- Raymond Delisle (France) s.t.
- Gösta Pettersson (Sweden) s.t.
- Davide Boifava (Italy) s.t.
- Lucien van Impe (Belgium) s.t.
- Bernard Thévenet (France) s.t.
- Giovanni Cavalcanti (Italy) s.t.
- Francisco Galdos (Spain) s.t.
- Joaquim Agostinho (Portugal) s.t.