1980 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 1980 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Besançon, France in 1980.^[1] Due to the 1980 Summer Olympics only ten events were contested, 8 for men (5 for professionals, 3 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Elite Events
Men's keirin	Danny Clark  Australia	Daniel Morelon  France	Niels Fredborg  Denmark
Men's sprint	Kōichi Nakano  Japan	(尾崎雅彦)  Japan	Daniel Morelon  France
Men's individual pursuit	Tony Doyle  Great Britain	Herman Ponsteen  Netherlands	Hans-Henrik Ørsted  Denmark
Men's points race	Stan Tourné  Belgium	Giovanni Mantovani  Italy	Heinz Betz  West Germany
Men's motor-paced	Wilfried Peffgen  West Germany	René Kos  Netherlands	Bruno Vicino  Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's points race	Gary Sutton  Australia	Viktor Manakov  Soviet Union	Josef Kristen  West Germany
Men's motor-paced	Gaby Minneboo  Netherlands	Mattheus Pronk  Netherlands	Bartolome Caldentey  Spain
Men's tandem	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek	France Franck Depine	Italy Giorgio Rossi
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Sue Novara  United States	Galina Tsareva  Soviet Union	West Germany
Women's individual pursuit	Nadezhda Kibardina  Soviet Union	Karen Strong  Canada	Petra De Bruin  Netherlands

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	3	1	5
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	0	3
4	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	3	4
6	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
10	France (FRA)	0	2	1	3
11	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
12	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
13	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
14	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		10	10	10	30

See also[]

• 1980 UCI Road World Championships
• UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin

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