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 striking piece of late modernist design that uses almost nothing, and still says everything. The title, “Championnats du Monde de Cyclisme 1975,” is set in bold black type, and beneath it a stylised rider, seen head-on, is framed by the five world champion rainbow stripes, a visual shorthand so strong that you recognise the subject before reading a single line of text. The poster is printed in French, with L.V.B. and U.C.I. at the top, and a clean split at the bottom between PISTE and ROUTE, the track and road halves of the week.

The schedule printed on the sheet places the track program in the Liège area, while the official track worlds in 1975 were held at Rocourt, which is part of Liège. On the road side, the poster names Mettet and Yvoir, the official host towns for the 1975 UCI Road World Championships, held 27 to 31 August 1975. It also lists the 100 km team time trial and separate amateur and professional road races, matching the documented structure of that year’s road worlds.

On the results sheet, 1975 delivers. The men’s professional road race, held August 31, 1975, in Yvoir, was won by Hennie Kuiper, ahead of Roger De Vlaeminck and Jean Pierre Danguillaume. The women’s road race produced a Dutch world champion, Tineke Fopma, with Geneviève Gambillon second and Keetie van Oosten Hage third.

A period production credit at the bottom notes it was printed in Belgium by Morjos Printers in Ghent, a small but satisfying detail that anchors the poster in its time and place.

If you collect world championships material, this is the kind of piece that works on multiple levels, it documents a specific week in Belgian cycling history, and it stands on its own as a bold, timeless graphic poster.

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.