UCI Track World Championships 1980

The 70th UCI Track World Championships took place from September 3rd to 7th, 1980 on the Velodrome in the Stade Léo-Lagrange in Besançon .

The cycling track had a 454 meter long cement runway with a curve superelevation of 32 degrees. Around 35,000 spectators attended the competitions. Even if the enthusiasm of the audience was great, the journalist of the German cycling sport complained , the hospitality in the city was not far off. The gastronomy was in no way adjusted to the world championship, so that late in the evening after the end of the races there was nothing to eat.

Since the 1980 Olympic Games were held in Moscow , only the non-Olympic competitions were held at the World Championships in France. Nevertheless, a total of ten competitions were on the program, as both the points race and Keirin had been newly included for the professionals. The year before, a demonstration competition had taken place in the Keirin at the World Cup , won by the Italian Giordano Turrini .

The team of the Association of German Cyclists won a total of four medals, making it the second strongest team behind that of the Netherlands. In the Amateur - pacemaker race occupied Germans Jean Breuer and Rainer Podlesch fourth and fifth. The German Beate Habetz finished fourth in the sprint after being beaten for third in the final by her compatriot Claudia Lommatzsch .

As part of the tandem competitions, the semi-finals between the Italians Giorgio Rossi and Floriano Finamore against the French Yvon Cloarec and Franck Dépine led to a war of nerves against the Italians, fueled by the audience. The heated atmosphere resulted in Finamore hitting a French journalist. The cycling lamented the chauvinism of the French audience and commented Finamores outburst: "It certainly was not right [...] but completely understandable."

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Sue Novara	13.33 (1st), 12.57 (2nd)
16 starters from 10 nations	2		Galina Tsaryova
	3		Claudia Lommatzsch	13.29 (1st), 13.37 (2nd)
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Nadezhda Kibardina	3: 59.70 min.
18 starters from 12 nations	2		Karen Strong	4: 00.57 min.
	3		Petra de Bruin	3: 59.70 min.

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Kōichi Nakano	11.54 (1st), 11.30 (2nd)
9 starters from 3 nations	2		Masahito Ozaki
	3		Daniel Morelon	12.71 (1st), 12.85 (2nd)
Keirin	1		Danny Clark
13 starters from 8 nations	2		Daniel Morelon
	3		Niels Fredborg
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Tony Doyle	6: 04.97 min.
21 starters from 9 nations	2		Herman Ponsteen	6: 14.77 min.
Points race	1		Constant Tourné	61 pts.
16 starters from 9 nations	2		Giovanni Mantovani	57 pts.
	3		Heinz Betz	53 pts.
Standing race (1 hour)	1		Wilfried Peffgen (behind Dieter Durst )	69.170 km
13 starters from 6 nations	2		René Kos (behind Bruno Walrave )	35 meters back
	3		Bruno Vicino (behind Domenico De Lillo )	180 meters back

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
tandem	1		Ivan Kučírek / Pavel Martinek	10.43 (1st), 10.34 (2nd)
5 teams from 5 nations	2		Yvon Cloarec / Franck Dépine
	3		Giorgio Rossi / Floriano Finamore	10.75 (1st), 10.66 (3rd)
Points race (50 km)	1		Gary Sutton	49 pts.
28 starters from 15 nations	2		Viktor Manakov	45 pts.
	3		Josef Kristen	43 pts.
Standing race (final over 50 km)	1		Gaby Minneboo (behind Bruno Walrave )	43: 05.48 min.
20 starters from 8 nations	2		Matthé Pronk (behind Norbert Koch )	70 meters back
	3		Bartolomé Caldentey (behind Antonio Mora )	340 meters back

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1980

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1980

Remarks

1. ↑ Cycling , September 10, 1980, p. 3
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kos and Caldentey were then disqualified for doping. Caldentey, desqualificado en el Mundial por “doping” , in: ABC v. September 27, 1980 on hemeroteca.abc.es (Spanish)