1970 UCI Road World Championships

1970 UCI Road World Championships

Venue	Leicester, United Kingdom
Date(s)	(1970-08-13 - 1970-08-16)13-16 August 1970

The 1970 UCI Road World Championships took place from 13 to 16 August 1970 at Mallory Park in Leicester, United Kingdom.

Results

Race:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze :	Time
Men
Men's road race details	Jean-Pierre Monseré  Belgium	6 h 33 min 58s	Leif Mortensen  Denmark	+ 2s	Felice Gimondi  Italy	m.t.
Amateurs' road race	Jorgen Schmidt  Denmark	-	Ludo Van der Linden  Belgium	-	Tony Gakens  Belgium	-
Team time trial	Soviet Union Valery Yardy Viktor Sokolov Boris Shoukov Valeri Likatchev	–	Czechoslovakia Jiří Mainuš František Řezáč Milan Puzrla Petr Matoušek	–	Netherlands Fedor den Hertog Popke Oosterhof Tino Tabak Adri Duycker	-
Women
Women's road race	Anna Konkina  Soviet Union	-	Morena Tartagni  Italy	-	Raisa Obodovskaja  Soviet Union	-

Outfit of Jean-Pierre Monseré as worldchampion, consisting of victory ribbon, cap, medal and rainbow jersey (collection KOERS. Museum of Cycle Racing)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	1	3
2	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	1	3
3	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
6	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

External links

• Men's results
• Women's results
• (in Italian) Results at sportpro.it