UCI track world championships 1976

The 66th UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held from September 7 to 10 1976, the 333 meter long cement velodrome of Velodromo degli Ulivi in Italian Monteroni di Lecce instead. Only the non-Olympic disciplines were held, as the Olympic Games were held in Montreal that same year . The German specialist magazine Radsport spoke of mini-championships or even “amputated” world championships.

At these world championships, the Dutch rider Keetie van Oosten-Hage announced her retirement from active competitive cycling, after eleven years at the top of the world and 15 world championship medals. At this World Championship in Italy alone, she won gold twice: in the single pursuit on the track and in the road World Championship race in Ostuni, 80 kilometers away, which was held a few days earlier . The Italian Francesco Moser also won two medals: he became world champion in the single pursuit and vice world champion on the road.

In the professional standers, the German defending champion Dieter Kemper did not qualify for the finals. The cycling was outraged: “Can the decisive races with the professional standers never go on stage without a scandal?” In a preliminary run, an Italian stalker had illegally blocked Kemper's path to support his compatriot Attilio Benfatto . When Kemper passed illegally on the left, he was disqualified, while the violations of the lapped Italian went unpunished.

The cycling track in Monteroni, now named Velodromo degli Ulivi-Mario Marini after the town's mayor at the time, has not been in operation since 1991 and fell into disrepair. Efforts have been made since 2011 to renovate the lift and put it back into operation.

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Sheila Young
	2		Sue Novara
	3		Iva Zajíčková
One's pursuit	1		Keetie van Oosten-Hage	3: 58.92 min.
(3000 m)	2		Luigina Bissoli	4: 04.75 min.
	3		Mary Jane Reoch

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		John Nicholson
	2		Giordano Turrini
	3		Yoshua Sugata
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Francesco Moser	6: 00.80 min.
	2		Roy Schuiten	6: 12.00 min.
	3		Knut Knudsen	6: 06.7 min.
Standing race	1		Wilfried Peffgen / Dieter Durst
(100 km)	2		Cees Stam / Norbert Koch
	3		Walter Avogradi / Dagnoni

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
Tandem race	1		Benedykt Kocot / Janusz Kotliński	11.25 (1st), 10.60 (2nd)
	2		Ivan Kučírek / Milos Jelinek
	3		Anatoly Jablunowsky / Wladimir Semenets	10.32 (1st), 10.27 min
Standing race	1		Gaby Minneboo / Bruno Walrave	41:16 min.
(50 km)	2		Bartolomé Caldentey / Antonio Mora
	3		Rainer Podlesch / Christian Dippel

References and comments

1. ↑ Cycling , September 15, 1976, p. 2
2. ↑ Cycling , September 15, 1976, p. 4
3. ↑ Rinasce il Velodromo degli Ulivi a Monteroni on ilgallo.it , accessed on July 4, 2011 (Italian)

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• Cycling , August / September 1976

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1976