1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

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1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
VenueZurich, Switzerland
Date(s) (1983)1983
VelodromeOerlikon Velodrome
Events14
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The 1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Zurich, Switzerland in 1983.[1] Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's keirin
Urs Freuler
  Switzerland
Danny Clark
 Australia

 United States
Men's sprint
Kōichi Nakano
 Japan
Yavé Cahard
 France
Ottavio Dazzan
 Italy
Men's individual pursuit
Steele Bishop
 Australia
Robert Dill-Bundi
  Switzerland
Hans-Henrik Ørsted
 Denmark
Men's points race
Urs Freuler
  Switzerland
Guido Bontempi
 Italy
Gary Sutton
 Australia
Men's motor-paced
Bruno Vicino
 Italy
René Koos
 Netherlands

 Netherlands
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial
Sergei Kopylov
 Soviet Union
Gerhard Scheller
 West Germany
Lothar Thoms
 East Germany
Men's sprint
Lutz Hesslich
 East Germany
Sergei Kopylov
 Soviet Union
Michael Hübner
 East Germany
Men's individual pursuit

 Soviet Union
Bernd Dittert
 East Germany

 Soviet Union
Men's team pursuit
 West Germany
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther

Michael Marx
 East Germany
Carsten Wolf

Bernd Dittert
 Czechoslovakia
Pavel Soukup
Ales Trcka

Men's points race
Michael Marcussen
 Denmark

 East Germany
Ivan Romanov
 Soviet Union
Men's motor-paced
Rainer Podlesch
 West Germany
Mattheus Pronk
 Netherlands
Walter Baumgartner
  Switzerland
Men's tandem
 France
Philippe Vernet
Franck Depine
 Czechoslovakia
Ivan Kucirek
 West Germany

Fredy Schmidtke[2][3]
Women's Events
Women's sprint
Connie Paraskevin
 United States

 West Germany
Isabelle Nicoloso
 France
Women's individual pursuit
Connie Carpenter
 United States

 United States
Jeannie Longo
 France

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 West Germany (FRG)2204
2 Soviet Union (URS)2125
3  Switzerland (SUI)2114
 United States (USA)2114
5 East Germany (RDA)1326
6 France (FRA)1124
7 Australia (AUS)1113
 Italy (ITA)1113
9 Denmark (DEN)1012
10 Japan (JPN)1001
11 Netherlands (NED)0213
12 Czechoslovakia (TCH)0112
Totals (12 nations)14141341

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893
  2. ^
    Fredy Schmidtke were disqualified due to a positif doping test on afterwards
  3. ^ "Dopingfälle - S". cycling4fans.de. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
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