1975 World Pro Road Cycling Championships
42nd edition: Sunday, August 31, 1975
Yvoir, Belgium
World Road Cycling Championships podium history | 1976 edition | 1974 edition |
79 riders started, 28 classified finishers.
20 laps of 13.3 km totalling 266 km. Winner's average speed: 39.97 km/hr
Hennie Kuiper winning solo in Yvoir. Only Kuiper, Ercole Baldini and Paolo Bettini have won both the Olympic road race and the world professional road race.
Complete Results:
The 1975 world's course went over a 3-kilometer climb 21 times!
Winner Hennie Kuiper fnished solo, 17 seconds ahead of the first chase group. And look who he held off! A chasing group with Roger de Vlaeminck, Joop Zoetemelk, Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser and a couple of other near-immortals. Kuiper was a worthy owner of the Rainbow jersey that year.
- Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands) 6hr 39min 19sec
- Roger de Vlaeminck (Belgium) @ 17sec
- Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (France) s.t.
- Pedro Torres (Spain) s.t.
- Joop Zoetemelk (Netherlands) s.t.
- Bernard Thévenet (France) s.t.
- Régis Ovion (France) s.t.
- Eddy Merckx (Belgium) s.t.
- Lucien van Impe (Belgium) s.t.
- Gerrie Knetemann (Netherlands) s.t.
- Francesco Moser (Italy) s.t.
- Andres Oliva (Spain) @ 3min 33sec
- Frans Verbeeck (Belgium) @ 4min 6sec
- Roland Salm (Switzerland) s.t.
- Bernard Bourreau (France) s.t.
- Felice Gimondi (Italy) s.t.
- Raymond Poulidor (France) s.t.
- Robert Poggiali (Italy) s.t.
- Emilio Martin "Cochise" Rodriguez (Colombia) s.t.
- André Dierickx (Belgium) s.t.
- Freddy Maertens (Belgium) s.t.
- Donald Allan (Australia) s.t.
- David Lloyd (Great Britain) @ 8min59sec
- Domingo Perurena (Spain) s.t.
- José Casas (spain) s.t.
- Vicente Lopez Carril s.t.
- Maurice Le Guilloux (France) s.t.
- Hubert Pronk (Netherlands) @ 11min 31sec