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1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

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Host city
  
Events
  
14

Velodrome
  
Brno Velodrome

Date(s)
  
(1981-08-31 - 1981-09-06)31 August - 6 September 1981

The 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1981. Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Contents

The Netherlands

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

Australia

Men's professional
Danny Clark - men's keirin

Belgium

Women
Claudine Vierstraete - women's sprint 02 ! (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 01 ! (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 03 ! (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 02 ! (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 pursuitMorandi - individual pursuitVicino - 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 03 !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 01 ! (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

1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Wikipedia


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