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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian
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Alfredo Binda!
ADENAU-Nürburgring (Germany), 182.5 km |
July 21, 1927, under cold rain and gusts winds
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Starter List: 22 professionals, 33 amateurs (am)
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Average Speed: 27.545 km/h
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| Racecourse: 22.81 km hilly Circuit du Nürburgring (autodrome) covering 12 laps. The race route north included an ascent of the "Hedwigshöhe" (Hohe Acht) whose max gradient reached 20% every lap. |
  
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The first edition of the World Championship Road Race was held in Adenau, Germany at Nürburgring Autodrome on July 21, 1927. The Championship race covered 182.5 km by 55 riders (22 professional and 33 amateurs) with an all Italian podium.
SPECIAL NOTE: The schedule of the first World Road Race Championship came just 4 days after the finish of the TdF and kept most of the stars of 1927 away from Nürburgring, Germany.
1927 Giro d'Italia winner Alfredo Binda broke away from Italian teammates Costante Girardengo and Domenico Piemontesi to become the first World Road Race Champion.
SPECIAL NOTE: The 1927 WCRR was the start of a bitter “Italian” rivalry. Before the race the Italian National team agreed to pool and split the prize money. Binda was chosen to breakaway but after winning he reneged on the agreement. Binda and Girardengo did not speak for years.
UCI WCRR 1927 Podium |
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Alfredo BINDA (Ita) 6h 37' 29” |
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Costante Girardengo (Ita) +7'16” |
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Domenico Piemontesi (Ita) +10'51” |
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WCRR 1928
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1st World Championship Road Race 1927
