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1928 UCI Road World Championships

cycling championship held in Budapest, Hungary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2035361 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1928 UCI Road World Championships was the eighth edition of the UCI Road World Championships.

The championship took place in Hungary on Thursday 16 August 1928. The course, with Budapest as both start and finish place, was around 190km. Only 8 of the professional cyclists finished, with winner Georges Ronsse reaching an average speed of 30.255 km/h.

In the same period, the 1928 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was organized in the Millenáris Sporttelep in Budapest.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1928 UCI Road World Championships” is cycling championship held in Budapest, Hungary. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Road, World and Championships, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Road, World and Championships is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2035361. Authority coordinates are 47.492, 19.051. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “1928 UCI Road World Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.