1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Venue	Brno, Czechoslovakia
Date(s)	31 August - 6 September 1981
Velodrome	Brno Velodrome
Events	14

The 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1981.^[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	Danny Clark Australia	Guido Bontempi Italy	Chiyoshi Kuno (久保千代志) Japan
Men's sprint	Kōichi Nakano Japan	Gordon Singleton Canada	Kenji Takahashi (高橋健二) Japan
Men's individual pursuit	Alain Bondue France	Hans-Henrik Ørsted Denmark	Bert Oosterbosch Netherlands
Men's points race	Urs Freuler Switzerland	Danny Clark Australia	Giuseppe Saronni Italy
Men's motor-paced	René Kos Netherlands	Bruno Vicino Italy	Wilfried Peffgen West Germany
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial	Lothar Thoms East Germany 1:05.85	Fredy Schmidtke West Germany 1:06.02	Sergei Kopylov Soviet Union 1:06.56
Men's sprint	Sergei Kopylov Soviet Union	Lutz Hesslich East Germany	Detlef Uibel East Germany
Men's individual pursuit	Detlef Macha East Germany 4:47.78	Dainis Liepiņš Soviet Union 4:55.19	Maurizio Bidinost Italy 4:49.40
Men's team pursuit	East Germany Detlef Macha Bernd Dittert Axel Grosser Volker Winkler	Soviet Union Alexandre Krasnov Viktor Manakov Alexandre Kulikov Nikolai Kuznetzov	Czechoslovakia Martin Penc Aleš Trčka František Raboň Jiří Pokorný
Men's points race	Lutz Haueisen East Germany	Leonard Harvey Nitz United States	Michael Marcussen Denmark
Men's motor-paced	Mattheus Pronk Netherlands	Rainer Podlesch West Germany	Max Hurzeler Switzerland
Men's tandem	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martínek	West Germany Dieter Giebken Fredy Schmidtke	Poland Ryszard Konkolewski Zbigniew Piątek
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Sheila Young United States	Claudine Vierstraete Belgium	Claudia Lommatzsch West Germany
Women's individual pursuit	Nadezhda Kibardina Soviet Union	Tamara Polyakova Soviet Union	Jeannie Longo France

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (RDA)	4	1	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	1	6
3	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
4	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
6	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
10	West Germany (FRG)	0	3	2	5
11	Italy (ITA)	0	2	2	4
12	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
13	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
15	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		14	14	14	42

Competitors

The Netherlands

The next riders were selected by the KNWU after the Dutch national championships and were published on 10 August 1981.^[2]

Women
Rider	Event
Erika Omen	Sprint
Sandra de Nijs	Sprint
Petra de Bruin	Individual pursuit
Monique Kauffmann	Individual pursuit

Amateur riders
Rider	Event
Ab van Asten	Individual pursuit team pursuit points race
Erick Ge..	Motor-paced
Ab Harren	team pursuit points race
Gaby Minneboo	Motor-paced
Rik Moorman	team pursuit
Peter Pieters	Individual pursuit team pursuit points race
Sjaak Pieters	Sprint Tandem
Mathé Pronk	Motor-paced
John Roozenburg	team pursuit points race
Ger Slot	Motor-paced
Reinier Valkenburg	Sprint 1 km time trial
Tom Vrolijk	Sprint Tandem
Eric Dompeling (reserve)	team pursuit

Professionals
Rider	Event
Bert Oosterbosch	Individual pursuit
Roy Schuiten
Herman Ponsteen (if he is fit)
Hans Vonk	Points race
Martin Venix	Motor-paced
René Kos
Martin Rietveld

Australia

Men's professional: Danny Clark - men's keirin

Belgium

Women: Claudine Vierstraete - women's sprint (eliminated Galina Tsareva in earlier round); Gerda Sierens - women's individual pursuit

Canada

Men's amateurs: ? - men's team pursuit; ? - men's team pursuit; ? - men's team pursuit; ? - men's team pursuit

Denmark

Men's professional: Oersted - individual pursuit

Czech Republic

Women: ? - women's sprint (won her qualification heat); Hana Hotova - women's sprint (finished 2nd in qualification heat)

East Germany

Men's amateur: Detlaf Macha - amateur individual pursuit (won qualification in 4:46.71, won final in 4:47.78)

France

Men's amateur: Cahard - sprint (felt and broke two ribs)
Men's professional: Patrick Clerc - keirin (felt in 1st round repaches and was taken away with a brancard)

West Germany

Women: Claudia Lommatzsch - women's sprint (qualified 1st round, qualified 2nd round, won 3rd round from Sue Novarra (2-0), quarter final.., won bronze final from Natalya Kroetsjeniskaja after 3 races)

Men's amateur: Rainer Podlesch - motor-paced (qualified for final after winning qualification heat); Schutz - motor-paced

Men's professional: Schultz - motor-paced

Italy

Men's amateur: Fusarpoli - motor-paced (qualified for final after winning qualification heat)
Men's professional: Borgognoni - individual pursuit; Morandi - individual pursuit; Vicino - motor-paced
Women: Rosella Gabiati - women's sprint (won 1st round from Sue Novarra)

Lebanon

Men's amateur: Ahmed Abdussal Gariani - sprint (lost from Rainier Valkenburg in 1st round)

Poland

Men's amateur: Jan Jankiewicz - individual pursuit (lost bronze medal race from Maurizio Bidinost (5:52.01 vs 4:49.40)); Platek - sprint (won 2nd round repaches from Rainier Valkenburg); Konkoleweski - tandem (lost from the Netherlands in first round, won the repechages); ? - tandem (lost from the Netherlands in first round, won the repechages)

Brazil

? - men's amateur individual pursuit

Soviet Union

Women's: Galina Tsareva - women's sprint (eliminated by Claudine Vierstraete); Natalya Kroetsjeniskaja - women's sprint (lost bronze final from Claudia Lommatzsch after 3 races); Olga Kibardina - women's individual pursuit
Men's amateur: Goelasjvili - sprint (won 2nd round from Rainier Valkenburg)

Switzerland

Men's amateur: Max Hurzeler - motor-paced; Isler - sprint (lost from Rainier Valkenburg in 1st round)
Men's professional: Urs Freuler - keirin

United States

Women: Conny Paravaskin - sprint (finished 3rd in her qualification heat); Sheila Young - sprint (qualified 1st round, won 2nd round from Erica Oomen, qualified 3rd round, result quarter final?); Sue Novarra - sprint (lost 1st round from Rosella Gabiati, lost 2nd round, won 2nd round repechages from Erica Oomen, lost 3rd round from Lommatzsch (0-2))

Men's professional: Eric Heiden - individual pursuit (finished 19th and last)

References

^ World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893
^ Baanploeg voor WK wielrennen Leidse Courant, 10 August 1981 (in Dutch)

[1] World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893

[2] Baanploeg voor WK wielrennen Leidse Courant, 10 August 1981 (in Dutch)

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