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| Venue | Mettet and Yvoir, Belgium |
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| Date(s) | 27-31 August 1975 |
The 1975 UCI Road World Championships took place from 27 to 31 August 1975 in Mettet and Yvoir, Belgium.
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| Venue | Mettet and Yvoir, Belgium |
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| Date(s) | 27-31 August 1975 |
The 1975 UCI Road World Championships took place from 27 to 31 August 1975 in Mettet and Yvoir, Belgium.
| Race: | Gold: | Time | Silver: | Time | Bronze : | Time |
| Men | ||||||
| Men's road race | Hennie Kuiper  Netherlands | 6 h 39 min 19s | Roger De Vlaeminck  Belgium | + 17s | Jean-Pierre Danguillaume  France | m.t. |
| Amateurs' road race | André Gevers Netherlands | - | Sven-Åke Nilsson  Sweden | - | Roberto Ceruti  Italy | - |
| Team time trial |  PolandTadeusz Mytnik Mieczysław Nowicki Ryszard Szurkowski Stanisław Szozda | – |  Soviet Union Gennady Komnatov Valery Chaplygin Aavo Pikkuus Vladimir Kaminski | – |  Czechoslovakia Petr Matoušek Vlastimil Moravec Vladimír Vondráček Petr Bucháček | - |
| Women | ||||||
| Women's road race | Tineke Fopma Netherlands | - | Geneviève Gambillon France | - | Keetie van Oosten-Hage Netherlands | - |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
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