1982 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	Leicester, United Kingdom
Date	(1982-08-23 - 1982-08-29)23–29 August 1982
Velodrome	Saffron Lane Velodrome
Events	14
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The 1982 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Leicester, the United Kingdom in 1982.^[1] Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

In the same period, the 1982 UCI Road World Championships were organized in Chichester.^[2]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Elite Events
Men's keirin details	Gordon Singleton  Canada	Danny Clark  Australia	Toru Kitamura (北村徹)  Japan
Men's sprint details	Kōichi Nakano  Japan	Gordon Singleton  Canada	Yavé Cahard  France
Men's individual pursuit details	Alain Bondue  France	Hans-Henrik Ørsted  Denmark	Maurizio Bidinost  Italy
Men's points race details	Urs Freuler  Switzerland	Gary Sutton  Australia	Roman Hermann  Liechtenstein
Men's motor-paced details	Martin Venix  Netherlands	Wilfried Peffgen  Germany	Bruno Vicino  Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial details	Fredy Schmidtke  West Germany	Lothar Thoms  East Germany	Emanuel Raasch  East Germany
Men's sprint details	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union	Lutz Heßlich  East Germany	Emzar Gulachvili  Soviet Union
Men's individual pursuit details	Detlef Macha  East Germany	Rolf Gölz  West Germany	Mario Hernig  East Germany
Men's team pursuit details	Soviet Union Konstantin Khrabvzov Alexandre Krasnov Valeri Movchan Sergey Nikitenko	West Germany Roland Günther Gerhard Strittmatter Axel Bokeloh Michael Marx	East Germany Detlef Macha Mario Hernig Gerald Buder Volker Winkler
Men's points race details	Hans-Joachim Pohl  East Germany	Michael Marcussen  Denmark	Karl Krenauer  Austria
Men's motor-paced details	Gaby Minneboo  Netherlands	Mattheus Pronk  Netherlands	Rainer Podlesch  West Germany
Men's tandem details	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martínek	West Germany Dieter Giebken Fredy Schmidtke	Netherlands Sjaak Pieters Tom Vrolijk
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Connie Paraskevin  United States	Sheila Young  United States	Claudia Lommatzsch  West Germany
Women's individual pursuit details	Rebecca Twigg  United States	Connie Carpenter  United States	Jeannie Longo  France

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (RDA)	2	3	3	8
2	United States (USA)	2	2	0	4
3	Netherlands (NED)	2	1	1	4
4	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	1	3
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	3	2	6
6	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
7	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
8	Japan (JPN)	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
11	Australia (AUS)	0	2	0	2
	Denmark (DEN)	0	2	0	2
13	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
14	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Liechtenstein (LIE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		14	14	14	42

References