1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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| Host city | Brno, Czechoslovakia |
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| Date(s) | 31 August - 6 September 1981 |
| Velodrome | Brno Velodrome |
| Events | 14 |
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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
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  East Germany |
4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 |  Soviet Union |
2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 |  Netherlands () |
2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 |  Australia |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| - |  United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  Japan |
1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 |  France |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| - |  Switzerland |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| - |  Czechoslovakia |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |  West Germany |
0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 |  Italy |
0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 |  Denmark |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 |  Belgium |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| - |  Canada |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 |  Poland |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Competitors
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The Netherlands
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The next riders were selected by the KNWU after the Dutch national championships and were published on 10 August 1981.[2]
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Australia
- Men's professional
- Danny Clark - men's keirin
Belgium
- Women
- Claudine Vierstraete - women's sprint
(eiminated 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 repachages)
- ? - tandem (lost from the Netherlands in first round, won the repachages)
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)
See also
References
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- ↑ World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893
- ↑ Baanploeg voor WK wielrennen Leidse Courant, 10 August 1981 (Dutch)
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