1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

Men's Individual Road Race

1965 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Race details
Date		5 September 1965
Distance		267.4 km (166.2 mi)
Winning time		6h 39' 19"[1]
Medalists
	Gold	Tom Simpson (GBR)	(Great Britain)
	Silver	Rudi Altig (GER)	(Germany)
	Bronze	Roger Swerts (BEL)	(Belgium)

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 1965 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 5 September in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.

The race was won by Great Britain's Tom Simpson, outsprinting Germany's Rudi Altig after the two had broken away with 40 km (24.9 mi) to go.^[2]

Final classification

Source:^[3]

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
	Tom Simpson	Great Britain	6h 39' 19"
	Rudi Altig	Germany	s.t.
	Roger Swerts	Belgium	+ 3'40"
4	Peter Post	Netherlands	s.t.
5	Karl-Heinz Kunde	Germany	s.t.
6	René Binggeli	Switzerland	+ 3' 50"
7	Arie Den Hartog	Netherlands	s.t.
8	Franco Balmamion	Italy	s.t.
9	Francisco Gabica	Spain	s.t.
10	Jean Stablinski	France	+ 4' 58"
11	Antonio Gómez del Moral	Spain	+ 6' 06"
12	Bruno Mealli	Italy	s.t.
13	Sebastian Elorza Uria	Spain	+ 7' 44"
14	Edward Sels	Belgium	+ 9'06"
15	Valentin Uriona Laucirica	Spain	s.t.
16	Italo Zilioli	Italy	s.t.
17	Fernando Manzaneque	Spain	s.t.
18	Bernard Vandekerkhove	Belgium	s.t.
19	Barry Hoban	Great Britain	+ 9' 55"
20	Walter Godefroot	Belgium	+ 12' 56"
21	Hans Junkermann	Germany	s.t.
22	Joseph Groussard	France	s.t.
23	Willi Altig	Germany	s.t.
24	Winfried Bölke	Germany	s.t.
25	Joseph Huysmans	Belgium	s.t.
26	Franco Cribiori	Italy	s.t.
27	Michele Dancelli	Italy	s.t.
28	Rolf Maurer	Switzerland	s.t.
29	Eddy Merckx	Belgium	s.t.
30	João Henrique Roque Dos Santos	Portugal	s.t.
31	André Foucher	France	s.t.
32	Eddy Schutz	Luxembourg	s.t.
33	Gines Garcia Peran	Spain	s.t.
34	Adriano Passuello	Italy	s.t.
35	Alan Ramsbottom	Great Britain	s.t.
36	Gilbert Bellone	France	s.t.
37	André Zimmermann	France	s.t.
38	Werner Weber	Switzerland	s.t.
39	Cornelius Haast	Netherlands	s.t.
40	Gianni Motta	Italy	s.t.
41	Guido De Rosso	Italy	s.t.
42	Robert Hagmann	Switzerland	s.t.
43	Jan Janssen	Netherlands	s.t.
44	Jo de Roo	Netherlands	s.t.
45	Gerben Karstens	Netherlands	s.t.
46	Cornelis Lute	Netherlands	s.t.
47	Leonel Miranda	Portugal	+ 15' 33"
48	Luis Otaño	Spain	s.t.
49	Mario Pereira Da Silva	Portugal	+ 16' 00"
50	Dieter Wiedemann	Germany	s.t.
51	Keith Butler	Great Britain	s.t.
52	Peter Glemser	Germany	s.t.
53	Vin Denson	Great Britain	s.t.
54	Bill Lawrie	Australia	s.t.
55	Jos van der Vleuten	Netherlands	+ 28' 00"
56	Joào Alves Peixoto	Portugal	s.t.

References

1. "World Championship, Road, Profs 1965". Cycling Archives. de Wielersite. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
2. "Tom Simpson: Britain's first pro road champion". Cycling Weekly. London: IPC Media. 30 September 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
3. "World Championships 1965: results Men". The-Sports.org. Québec, Canada: Info Média Conseil. Retrieved 2 July 2013.