UCI Track World Championships 1982

The 72nd UCI Track World Championships took place from 23 to 29 August 1982 on the velodrome of the "Saffron Lane Sports Center" in Leicester , UK .

The cycling track was 333 meters long, the surface was made of wood. Around 32,000 spectators came over the seven days of the competition; the British audience was “enthusiastic” and “very fair”. However, the changing weather affected the competitions; Due to rain, it had to be interrupted more often, on one day the program even had to be canceled completely and postponed to the next day.

The magazine Radsport was pleased with the headline: “Seven medals as a result! BDR team back at the top of the world ”, the German team won gold once, silver four times and bronze twice. The magazine praised the new German coaching duo of Dieter Berkmann and Udo Hempel .

The Canadian Gordon Singleton caused a lot of excitement : He became world champion in the Keirin , although three protests had been raised against him. In the last lap he “pulled away” from the German Josef Kristen , who ended up only fourth. In any case, cycling was not really happy about this discipline, which has only been held since 1980: "Nevertheless, like scoring, it belongs more to the entertainment division than the classic world championship discipline." It was also Singleton who, according to cycling, “let himself down” in the third final run of the professional sprinters when he saw that he had no chance against Nakano: “Nakano finally became world champion for the sixth time and Singleton also put off the last Fan, when he did not want to stand on the podium with Nakano at the award ceremony. "

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Connie Paraskevin
24 participants from 11 associations	2		Sheila Young
	3		Claudia Lommatzsch
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Rebecca Twigg	3: 51.95
18 participants from 11 associations	2		Connie Carpenter	3: 52.63
	3		Jeannie Longo	3: 56.29

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Kōichi Nakano	11.00 (2.)
13 participants from 7 associations	2		Gordon Singleton	11.16 (1st), dnf (3rd)
	3		Yave Cahard
Keirin	1		Gordon Singleton
14 participants from 9 associations	2		Danny Clark
	3		Tōru Kitamura
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Alain Bondue	6: 03.76
15 participants from 11 associations	2		Hans-Henrik Ørsted	6: 04.19
	3		Maurizio Bidinost	6: 07.09
Points race (50 km)	1		Urs Freuler	64 P. (1: 02,44,53)
22 participants from 11 associations	2		Gary Sutton	52 P.
	3		Roman Hermann	39 P.
Standing race (71 km)	1		Martin Venix (behind Norbert Koch )	1: 27.43
13 participants 6 associations	2		Wilfried Peffgen (behind Christian Dippel )	413 m
	3		Bruno Vicino (behind Domenico De Lillo )	423 AD

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Sergei Kopylov	10.93 (1st), 11.48 (3rd)
55 participants from 25 associations	2		Lutz Heßlich	10.93 (2.)
	3		Emsa Gelashvili	10.98 (1st), 10.89 (3rd)
1000 meter time trial	1		Fredy Schmidtke	1: 05.77
27 participants from 26 associations	2		Lothar Thoms	1: 06.45
	3		Emanuel Raasch	1: 06.48
tandem	1		Ivan Kučírek / Pavel Martinek	10.40 (1st), 10.28 (2nd)
8 teams from 8 associations	2		Dieter Giebken / Fredy Schmidtke
	3		Sjaak Pieters / Ton Vrolijk	11.12 (1st), 10.86 (2nd)
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Detlef Macha	4: 48.14
42 participants from 24 associations	2		Rolf Goelz	4: 49.98
	3		Mario Hernig	4: 48.37
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1		Konstantin Krawzow / Alexander Krasnow / Valeri Mowtschan / Sergei Nikitenko	4: 23.42
19 teams from 19 associations	2		Roland Günther / Gerhard Strittmatter / Axel Bokeloh / Michael Marx	4: 27.10
	3		Detlef Macha / Mario Hernig / Gerald Buder / Volker Winkler	4: 26.51
Points race (50 km)	1		Hans-Joachim Pohl	49 P.
52 participants from 26 associations	2		Michael Marcussen	36 P.
	3		Karl Krenauer	27 P.
Standing race (final over 50 km)	1		Gaby Minneboo (behind Bruno Walrave )	43: 03.63
16 participants from 7 associations	2		Mattheus Pronk (behind Norbert Koch )	+ 10 meters
	3		Rainer Podlesch (behind Peter Schindler )	# 170 m

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1982

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1982

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Cycling , September 1, 1982 p. 2