1980 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 1980 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Besançon, France in 1980.^[1] Due to the 1980 Summer Olympics only ten events were contested, 8 for men (5 for professionals, 3 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Elite Events
Men's keirin	Danny Clark Australia	Daniel Morelon France	Niels Fredborg Denmark
Men's sprint	Kōichi Nakano Japan	Masahito Ozaki Japan	Daniel Morelon France
Men's individual pursuit	Tony Doyle United Kingdom	Herman Ponsteen Netherlands	Hans-Henrik Ørsted Denmark
Men's points race	Stan Tourné Belgium	Giovanni Mantovani Italy	Heinz Betz West Germany
Men's motor-paced	Wilfried Peffgen West Germany	René Koos Netherlands	Bruno Vicino Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's points race	Gary Sutton Australia	Viktor Manakov Soviet Union	Josef Kristen West Germany
Men's motor-paced	Gaby Minneboo Netherlands	Mattheus Pronk Netherlands	Bartolome Caldentey Spain
Men's tandem	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martinek	France Yvon Cloarec Franck Depine	Italy Giorgio Rossi Floriano Finamore
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Sue Novara United States	Galina Tsareva Soviet Union	Claudia Lommatzsch West Germany
Women's individual pursuit	Nedega Kibardina Soviet Union	Karen Strong Canada	Petra De Bruin Netherlands

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	2	0	0	2
2	Netherlands	1	3	1	5
3	Soviet Union	1	2	0	3
4	Japan	1	1	0	2
5	West Germany	1	0	3	4
6	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
-	Belgium	1	0	0	1
-	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
-	United States	1	0	0	1
10	France	0	2	1	3
11	Italy	0	1	2	3
12	Canada	0	1	0	1
13	Denmark	0	0	2	2
14	Spain	0	0	1	1

UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Championships records

Years	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915–1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Cyclists	... 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Countries	Australia Cuba Netherlands (incomplete country list)

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