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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian
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Ronsse's Power and a Cow in the Road
BUDAPEST (Hungary), 191.7 km |
August 16, 1928, with scorching heat and dusty roads
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Average Speed: 30.255 km/h
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| Racecourse: 191.7 km road Circuit (Budapest - Vacz - Becske - Verseg - Godollo - Kerepes - Budapest). |
  
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The second edition of the World Championship Road Race was held in Budapest, Hungary on August 16, 1928. The Championship race covered 191.7 km and was contested by a very small field of only 16 riders.
22 year old Belgian Georges Ronsse, winner of the 1925 Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the 1926 Paris-Roubaix, broke away from the small peloton early with his teammate Jules Van Hevel. The two Belgians opened a large gap when Van Hevel inadvertently hit a cow in the road and crashed heavily. Van Hevel abandoned the race.
 
Ronsse rode solo back into Budapest to win the 1928 World Road Race Championships.
UCI WCRR 1928 Podium |
1.
Georges RONSSE (Bel) 6h 20' 10” |
2.
Herbert Nebe (Ger) +19'43” |
3.
Bruno Wolke (Ger) |
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WCRR 1927
WCRR 1929
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2nd World Championship Road Race 1928
