1975 World Championships, Official Race Poster – Race Winner – Hennie Kuiper

Championnats du Monde de Cyclisme – 1975
UCI Road World Championships
Rad-Weltmeisterschaften

Original Belgian poster for the 1975 UCI Cycling World Championships, a clean, modernist design that reduces the entire idea of world championship racing to a few perfect signals, bold typography, a stylised rider, and the five rainbow stripes of the champion’s jersey. The poster is printed in French and carries the initials L.V.B. and U.C.I. at the top, with the title set in heavy black type, “Championnats du Monde de Cyclisme 1975.” At the center, a graphic front view of a rider and handlebars cuts through the rainbow bands, a sharp, almost architectural composition that feels unmistakably mid 1970s in its confidence and restraint.

The text at the bottom lays out the week in Belgium with admirable precision. On the track side, it lists Liège and the “Stade vélodrome du F.C. Liégeois,” matching the 1975 Track World Championships held at Rocourt, in the Liège area. On the other side, it lists Mettet and Yvoir, the official locations of the 1975 Road World Championships, held August 27 – 31, 1975. The schedule printed on the sheet includes the 100 km team time trialand separate amateur and professional road races.

For collectors, 1975 is also an instantly recognizable year on the results sheet. The men’s professional road race, held on 31 August 1975 in Yvoir, was won by Hennie Kuiper, with Roger De Vlaeminck second and Jean Pierre Danguillaume third. In the women’s road race, the world title went to Tineke Fopma of the Netherlands, with Geneviève Gambillon second and Keetie van Oosten Hage third, a podium that links three of the era’s key names in women’s championship racing.

Production details are printed at the bottom, noting it was printed in Belgium by Morjos Printers in Ghent, a period credit that anchors the poster firmly as a locally produced championship piece.

Visually, this is one of those posters that reads from across the room, minimal, iconic, and instantly legible as “worlds,” even before you step close enough to read the fine print. A great addition to any cycling collection

This poster has been archivally and professionally linen-backed.

Virtually all original vintage posters of this era were viewed as temporary advertising and were printed on very thin paper. While expensive, linen backing is a conservation method used to mount, stabilize, preserve, and protect vintage posters, allowing them to be displayed or framed without compromising their value.