UCI track world championships 1983

The 73rd UCI Track World Championships took place from 23 to 28 August 1983 on the Zurich-Oerlikon Open Track .

On the occasion of this World Cup, the “venerable” Zurich cycling track was renovated again, equipped with floodlights and new seating and standing areas.

In the women’s category, there were only 21 drivers in total . Some well-known drivers, such as Sheila Young or Sue Novara , had resigned. Not a single track athlete had traveled from the Eastern European countries, which surprised cycling : "Women cycling was once a World Cup discipline on the Soviet initiative." The reasons for this could only be speculated as to whether the reason for this abstinence was that women cycling was not an Olympic discipline, and the "Eastern Bloc countries" concentrated on these disciplines, or whether stricter doping controls were avoided.

The team of the Association of German Cyclists caused a doping scandal: the tandem drivers Fredy Schmidtke and Dieter Giebken and the sprinter Claudia Lommatzsch tested positive for ephedrine . The three athletes were stripped of their medals and they were banned for a month. However, this decision was revised in November of the same year by the World Cycling Federation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Lommatzsch, however, had already announced her immediate retirement from cycling because of these events.

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Connie Paraskevin	12.60 s (2nd), 12.24 s. (3.)
10 starters from 7 associations	2		Claudia Lommatzsch
	3		Isabelle Nicoloso	13.4 s. (1), second run without a fight
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Connie Carpenter	3: 52.31 min.
11 starters from 8 associations	2		Cindy Olavarri	3: 52.48 min.
	3		Jeannie Longo	3: 53.39 min.

Results men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Kōichi Nakano	10.82 (1st), 10.84 (s.)
11 starters from 6 associations	2		Yave Cahard
	3		Ottavio Dazzan	11.14 (2nd), 11.09 (s.)
Single pursuit (5000 m)	1		Steele Bishop
7 starters from 5 associations	2		Robert Dill-Bundi	caught up
	3		Hans-Henrik Ørsted	5: 53.97 min.
Keirin	1		Urs Freuler
16 starters from 10 associations	2		Danny Clark
	3		Gilbert Hatton
Points race	1		Urs Freuler	84 pts.
18 starters from 11 associations	2		Guido Bontempi	60 pts.
	3		Gary Sutton	60 pts.
Standing race (1 hour)	1		Bruno Vicino (behind Domenico De Lillo )	68.333 km
13 starters from 6 associations	2		René Kos (behind Bruno Walrave )	+ 10 meters
	3		Martin Havik (behind Joop Zijlaard )	+ 30 meters

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Lutz Heßlich	10.61 (1st), 10.67 (2nd)
43 starters from 20 associations	2		Sergei Kopylov
	3		Michael Huebner	10.92 (1st), 10.65 (2nd)
Time trial (1000 m)	1		Sergei Kopylov	1: 03.94 min.
24 starters from 23 associations	2		Gerhard Scheller	1: 05.02 min.
	3		Lothar Thoms	1: 05.07 min.
tandem	1		Philippe Vernet / Franck Dépine	10.40 (1st), 10.30 (2nd)
7 teams from 7 associations	2		Ivan Kučírek / Pavel Martinek
	3		Dieter Giebken / Fredy Schmidtke
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Viktor Kupovets	4: 37.89 min.
36 starters from 20 associations	2		Bernd Dittert	4: 41.15 min.
	3		Dainis Leipinch	4: 41.22 min.
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1		Rolf Gölz / Roland Günther / Gerhard Strittmatter / Michael Marx	4: 19.03 min.
18 teams from 18 associations	2		Carsten Wolf / Mario Hernig / Bernd Dittert / Hans-Joachim Pohl	4: 19.64 min.
	3		Pavel Soukop / Aleš Trčka / František Raboň / Robert Štěrba	4: 24.20 min.
Points race (50 km)	1		Michael Marcussen	46 pts.
24 starters from 23 associations	2		Hans-Joachim Pohl	30 pts.
	3		Ivan Romanov	10 pts.
Standing race (final over 50 km)	1		Rainer Podlesch (behind Dieter Durst )	42: 07.56 min.
18 starters from 8 associations	2		Mattheus Pronk (behind Norbert Koch )	+ 10 meters
	3		Walter Baumgartner (behind Ueli Luginbühl )	+ 50 meters

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1983

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1983

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , August 31, 1983, p. 10
2. ↑ Cycling , September 7, 1983, p. 3
3. ↑ Le Monde Cyclisme No. 125 / Jan. 1984