FRANCE: TRENTIN AND BRACKE WIN WORLD CYCLING TITLES

Record ID: 496368

  • Title: FRANCE: TRENTIN AND BRACKE WIN WORLD CYCLING TITLES
  • Date: 12th September 1964
  • Summary: 1. LV TO GV FAGGIN (ITALY) COMPETITOR IN PROFESSIONAL CYCLING FINAL 0.06 2. GV PAN FAGGIN AROUND CIRCUIT AT SPEED 0.18 3. LV TO GV BRACKE (BELGIUM) BEGINS SPED TRIALS IN PROFESSIONAL FINAL 0.22 4. GV PAN BRACKE AROUND CIRCUIT AT SPEED 0.37 5. SV SPECTATORS 0.39 6. GV BRACKE ON LAP OF HONOUR WAVES TO CROWD, THE WINNER 0.44 7. GV TO SCU BRACKE IN CONGRATULATED ON VICTORY 0.53 8. SV PRESSMEN 0.56 9. GV BRACKE ON PODIUM WITH FAGGIN & COMPETITOR PLACED THIRD 1.00 10. LV TRENTIN & MORELON AT START (AMATEUR) 1.01 11. GV TO SCU TRENTIN & MORELON START 1.06 12. LV PAN DITTO 1.15 13. GV SPECTATORS 1.17 14. GV PAN TRENTIN IN LEAD FROM MORELON ROUND CIRCUIT AT SPEED 1.27 15. LV TO SCU TRENTIN ACROSS FINISHING LINE AHEAD OF MORELON TRENTIN OUTRIGHT WINNER OF THE FINALS AMATEUR 1.31 16. SV SPECTATORS 1.33 17. LV & GV PAN TRENTIN & MORELON HUG EACH OTHER (2 SHOTS) 1.41 18. SV SPECTATORS 1.43 19. GVs & SV TRENTIN & MORELON ON PODIUM WITH BOUQUETS 1.51 Initials AK/V/MGT/SGM SPORT: CYCLING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th September 1964 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAD2TS250RVGLAG8O2WL47PT3J1
  • Story Text: FERDINAND BRACKE, TODAY BEAT THE HOLDER OF THE 5,000 METRES PROFESSIONAL PURSUIT TITLE IN THE WORLD CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PARIS TODAY (SATURDAY) TO BECOME THE NEW CHAMPION. ITALY'S LEANDRO FAGGIN LOST TO BRACKE WHO COVERED THE ll LAPS OF THE 5-KILOMETRE CIRCUIT IN 6:13.92 AT AN AVERAGE 48.141 KPH; FAGGIN'S TIME WAS 6.23.97.

    PIERRE TRENTIN OF FRANCE WON THE AMATEUR SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP. HE BEAT COMPATRIOT DANIEL MORELON BY TWO RACES TO ONE IN THE FINAL. IT IS THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1957 THAT THE TITLE HAS GONE TO A FRENCHMAN.

    BOTH TRENTIN AND MORELON WON A RACE IN THE RUBBER OF THREE AND SO THE THIRD RUN WAS DECISIVE: FIRST RACE: TRENTIN (TIME FOR LAST 200 METRES 13.4 SECONDS) SECOND RACE: MORELON 12.7 SECONDS THIRD RACE TRENTIN 12.7 SECONDS.

    SERGIO BANCHETTO OF ITALY WAS THIRD. HE RODE ALONE AND UNOPPOSED SINCE THE OTHER COMPETITOR FOR THE PLACE, PATRICK SERCU OF BELGIUM, DID NOT APPEAR. SERCU, THE HOLDER OF THE TITLE, WAS DISQUALIFIED AFTER AND ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT WHEN FINISHING FIRST IN THE SECOND RACE OF THE SEMI-FINAL AGAINST MORELON.
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