1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	Zurich, Switzerland
Date	(1983-08-23 - 1983-08-28)23–28 August 1983
Velodrome	Oerlikon Velodrome
Events	14
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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.^[2]

In the same period, the 1983 UCI Road World Championships were organized in Altenrhein.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's keirin details	Urs Freuler  Switzerland	Danny Clark  Australia	Gilbert Hatton  United States
Men's sprint details	Kōichi Nakano  Japan	Yavé Cahard  France	Ottavio Dazzan  Italy
Men's individual pursuit details	Steele Bishop  Australia	Robert Dill-Bundi  Switzerland	Hans-Henrik Ørsted  Denmark
Men's points race details	Urs Freuler  Switzerland	Guido Bontempi  Italy	Gary Sutton  Australia
Men's motor-paced details	Bruno Vicino  Italy	René Koos  Netherlands	Martin Havik  Netherlands
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial details	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union	Gerhard Scheller  West Germany	Lothar Thoms  East Germany
Men's sprint details	Lutz Heßlich  East Germany	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union	Michael Hübner  East Germany
Men's individual pursuit details	Viktor Kupovets  Soviet Union	Bernd Dittert  East Germany	Dainis Liepiņš  Soviet Union
Men's team pursuit details	West Germany Rolf Gölz Roland Günther Gerhard Strittmatter Michael Marx	East Germany Carsten Wolf Mario Hernig Bernd Dittert Hans-Joachim Pohl	Czechoslovakia Pavel Soukup Aleš Trčka František Raboň Robert Štěrba
Men's points race details	Michael Marcussen  Denmark	Hans-Joachim Pohl  East Germany	Ivan Romanov  Soviet Union
Men's motor-paced details	Rainer Podlesch  West Germany	Mattheus Pronk  Netherlands	Walter Baumgartner  Switzerland
Men's tandem details	France Philippe Vernet Franck Depine	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martínek	West Germany Dieter Giebken Fredy Schmidtke[3][4]
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Connie Paraskevin  United States	Claudia Lommatzsch  West Germany	Isabelle Nicoloso  France
Women's individual pursuit details	Connie Carpenter  United States	Cynthia Olavarri  United States	Jeannie Longo  France

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	0	4
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	2	5
3	Switzerland (SUI)	2	1	1	4
	United States (USA)	2	1	1	4
5	East Germany (RDA)	1	3	2	6
6	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
7	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
9	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	1	2
10	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
11	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	1	3
12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
Totals (12 entries)		14	14	13	41

See also

• 1983 UCI Road World Championships

References