UCI Track World Championships 1979

Lutz Heßlich (here 1988) won the first of four world championship titles in the sprint in Amsterdam

The 69th UCI Track World Championships took place from August 29th to September 2nd, 1979 on the Velodrome in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam .

A total of around 42,000 spectators came to the competitions, 11,000 on the final day alone, when the sprint and standing races of the professionals and the points run by the amateurs were on the program. The complaints were frequent defects that were traced back to an ash track in the interior of the velodrome, which carried ash splinters onto the track, which damaged the tires.

These world championships were not a "successful world championship" for the West German Association of German Cyclists (BDR), as the trade magazine Radsport stated, and the performances shown were "absolutely out of the question". The West German athletes could not win a single title, whereas the racing drivers from the GDR received three gold medals. The then national coach Karl Ziegler was therefore under strong criticism.

At this World Cup, a demonstration competition was held in the Keirin, which the Italian Giordano Turrini won. The following year Keirin was accepted into the world championship program for the professionals.

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Galina Tsaryova	12.93 s (1st), 13.69 s (2nd)
	2		Truus van der Plaat
	3		Sue Novara	13.08 s (1st), 13.39 s (2nd)
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Keetie van Oosten-Hage	4: 00.93 min
	2		Anne Riemersma	4: 07.50 min
	3		Luigina Bissoli

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Kōichi Nakano	11.67 s (1st), 12.55 s (2nd)
	2		Dieter Berkmann
	3		Michel Vaarten	12.10 s (1st), 12.22 s (2nd)
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Bert Oosterbosch	6: 09.45 min.
	2		Francesco Moser	6: 12.13 min.
	3		Herman Ponsteen	6: 12.52 min.
Standing race (1 hour)	1		Martin Venix (behind Norbert Koch )	72.445 km
	2		Wilfried Peffgen (behind Dieter Durst )	445 m back
	3		Cees Stam (behind Bruno Walrave )	455 m back

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Lutz Heßlich	11.57 s (1st), 11.45 s (2nd)
	2		Emanuel Raasch
	3		Christian Drescher	11.76 s (2nd), 11.43 s (3rd)
Time trial (1000 m)	1		Lothar Thoms	1: 06.61 min
	2		Gordon Singleton	1: 07.53 min
	3		Eduard Rapp	1: 07.78 min
tandem	1		Yavé Cahard / Franck Dépine	10.79 s (2nd), 1.48 s (3rd)
	2		Dieter Giebken / Hans-Peter Reimann	10.61 s (1.)
	3		Vladimír Vačkář / Miroslav Vymazal	11.15 s (1st), 11.22 s (2nd)
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Nikolai Makarov	4: 49.54 min.
	2		Maurizio Bidinost	4: 50.54 min.
	3		Alain Bondue	4: 50.79 min.
Team pursuit (4000 m) check names	1		Lutz Haueisen / Gerald Mortag / Axel Grosser / Volker Winkler	4: 29.02 min.
	2		Vladimir Osokin / Wassili Ehrlich / Witali Petrakow / Viktor Manakow	4: 29.43 min.
	3		Maurizio Bidinost / Pierangelo Bincoletto / Silvestro Milani / Sandro Callari	4: 30.35 min
Points race (50 km)	1		Igor Sláma	37 pts.
	2		Pierangelo Bincoletto	33 pts.
	3		Urs Freuler	28 pts.
Standing race (final over 50 km)	1		Mattheus Pronk (behind Norbert Koch )	39; 34.76 min.
	2		Guido Van Meel (behind De Paepe)	1 lap + 145 m back
	3		Gaby Minneboo (behind Bruno Walrave )	2 laps back

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , September 5, 1979, p. 2

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1979

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1979

Web links

• Brokkelend beton, vastlopend folkslied vanonzeverslaggever.wordpress.com - Report on the Track World Cup 1979 (Dutch)