UCI Track World Championships 1981

The 71st UCI Track World Championships took place from August 31 to September 5, 1981 on the cycling track in Brno , Czechoslovakia .

The cycle track was a 400-meter-long cement track. A total of 14 titles were awarded, more than ever before, seven titles to the amateurs, five to the professionals and two to the women.

The West German Fredy Schmidtke won two silver medals, in the 1000-meter time trial and - although he fell badly in the sprint tournament - in the tandem race . The reason for the fall in the round of 16 was assumed to be that the track was still too damp after a light rain. Despite his injuries, Schmidtke started the next round, but then lost to the GDR athlete Michael Hübner . The specialist magazine Radsport criticized the fact that the team of the Association of German Cyclists (BDR) did not have their own doctor with them and that Schmidtke therefore had to be treated by Czechoslovak and Soviet doctors.

In contrast, the results of the German pursuers were disappointing, with the four-wheeler , once the flagship of the BDR, already eliminated in the quarter-finals. The cycling spoke of "the decline of the former prime discipline of the West German cycling".

The West German cycling magazine also complained about the final of the professional stayers as "an hour of boredom". The "permanent glory" is over and it is a "dying discipline". In total there were only eleven stayers from five nations, including two Japanese and one British .

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Sheila Young	12.96 (1st), 13.24 (2nd)
16 starters from 9 nations	2		Claudine Vierstraete
	3		Claudia Lommatzsch	12.71 (2nd), 13.65 (3rd)
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Nadezhda Kibardina	3: 59.70 min.
18 starters from 12 nations	2		Tamara Polyakova	4: 00.57 min.
	3		Jeannie Longo	3: 59.70 min.

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Kōichi Nakano	10.88 (1st), 10.91 (2nd)
9 starters from 4 nations	2		Gordon Singleton
	3		Kenji Takahashi	Opponent not faced
Keirin	1		Danny Clark
14 starters from 11 nations	2		Guido Bontempi
	3		Chiyoshi Kubo
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Alain Bondue	6: 02.39 min.
21 starters from 9 nations	2		Hans-Henrik Ørsted	6: 03.54 min.
	3		Bert Oosterbosch	6: 05.70 min.
Points race	1		Urs Freuler	51 pts.
23 starters 13 countries	2		Danny Clark	48 pts.
	3		Giuseppe Saronni	35 pts.
Standing race (1 hour)	1		René Kos (behind Bruno Walrave )
11 starters from 5 nations	2		Bruno Vicino (behind Domenico De Lillo )
	3		Wilfried Peffgen (behind Dieter Durst )

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Sergei Kopylov	11.31 (2nd), 11.30 (3rd)
59 starters from 28 countries	2		Lutz Heßlich	12.01 (1.)
	3		Detlef Uibel	11.24 (1st), 1.45 (2nd)
1000 meter time trial	1		Lothar Thoms	1: 05.85 min.
59 starters from 28 countries	2		Fredy Schmidtke	1: 06.02 min.
	3		Sergei Kopylov	1: 06.56 min.
tandem	1		Ivan Kučírek / Pavel Martinek	10.68 (1st), 10.45 (2nd)
8 teams from 8 nations	2		Dieter Giebken / Fredy Schmidtke
	3		Ryszard Konkolewski / Zbigniew Piątek	10.67 (1st), 10.64 (2nd)
One's pursuit	1		Detlef Macha	4: 47.78 min.
8 teams from 8 nations	2		Dainis Liepinch	4: 55.19 min.
	3		Maurizio Bidinost	4: 49.40 min.
Team pursuit	1		Volker Winkler / Axel Grosser / Bernd Dittert / Detlef Macha	4: 28.72 min.
20 teams from 20 nations	2		Alexey Krasnow / Nikolai Kuznetsow / Alexander Kulikow / Wiktor Manakow	4: 29.78 min.
	3		Aleš Trčka / František Raboň / Martin Penc / Jiři Pokorný	4: 49.40 min.
Points race (50 km)	1		Lutz Haueisen	75 pts.
55 starters from 28 countries	2		Leonard Nitz	59 pts.
	3		Michael Marcussen	45 pts.
Standing race (final over 50 km)	1		Matthé Pronk (behind Norbert Koch )	44: 45.61 min.
18 starters from 8 nations	2		Rainer Podlesch (behind Dieter Durst )	360 meters back
	3		Max Hürzeler (behind Ueli Luginbühl )	1 lap + 160 meters back

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1981

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1981

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Radsport , September 9, 1981, p. 3
2. ↑ Cycling , September 9, 1981, p. 8
3. ↑ The sources do not match the composition of this team.