UCI track world championships 1987

The 77th UCI Track World Championships took place in Vienna in August 1987 .

14 decisions were on the program, twelve for men (five for professionals , seven for amateurs ) and two for women.

The World Championships were dominated by the Soviet Union team , which won four of seven titles among the amateurs. The Swiss Urs Freuler became world champion in points race for the seventh time in a row .

Results

Women

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Soviet Union	Erika Salumäe
	2	German Democratic Republic	Christa Rothenburger
	3	United States	Connie Paraskevin-Young
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1	United States	Rebecca Twigg
	2	France	Jeannie Longo
	3	United States	Melissa Mayfield

Men

Professionals

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	Japan	Nobuyuki Tawara
	2	Japan	Hideyuki Matsui
	3	Italy	Claudio Golinelli
Keirin	1	Japan	Harumi Honda
	2	Italy	Claudio Golinelli
	3	Switzerland	Urs Freuler
One's pursuit	1	Denmark	Hans-Henrik Ørsted
	2	Denmark	Jesper Worre
	3	United Kingdom	Tony Doyle
Points race (50 km)	1	Switzerland	Urs Freuler
	2	United Kingdom	Tony Doyle
	3	Belgium	Roger Ilegems
Standing race	1	Switzerland	Max Hürzeler (behind Ueli Luginbühl )
	2	Australia	Danny Clark (behind Karl Igl )
	3	BR Germany	Werner Betz (behind Christian Dippel )

Amateurs

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1	German Democratic Republic	Lutz Heßlich
	2	German Democratic Republic	Bill Huck
	3	German Democratic Republic	Michael Huebner
Time trial (1000 m)	1	Australia	Martin Vinnicombe
	2	German Democratic Republic	Jens Happy
	3	Soviet Union	Konstantin Krabtsow
tandem	1	France	Fabrice Colas / Frédéric Magné
	2	Italy	Andrea Faccini / Roberto Nicotti
	3	Czech Republic	Vitezlav Voboni / Lubomír Hargaš
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1	Soviet Union	Gintautas Umaras
	2	Soviet Union	Vyacheslav Yekimov
	3	Soviet Union	Artūras Kasputis
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1	Soviet Union	Vyacheslav Yekimov / Alexander Krasnov / Viktor Manakov / Sergeï Chmelinine
	2	German Democratic Republic	Steffen Blochwitz / Dirk Meier / Carsten Wolf / Roland Hennig
	3	Czech Republic	Pavel Soukop / Miroslav Kundera / Svatopluk Buchta / Miroslav Junec
Points race (50 km)	1	Soviet Union	Marat Ganeev
	2	BR Germany	Uwe Messerschmidt
	3	France	Pascal Lino
Standing race (50 km)	1	Italy	Mario Gentili (behind Walter Corradin )
	2	Italy	Vincenzo Colamartino (behind Gianni Fratarcangeli )
	3	Austria	Roland Königshofer (behind Karl Igl )

Medal table

	nation				total
1	Soviet Union	4th	2	1	7th
2	Japan	2	1		3
3	Switzerland	2		1	3
4th	German Democratic Republic	1	4th	1	6th
5	Italy	1	3	1	5
6th	Australia	1	2	1	4th
7th	France	1	1	1	3
8th	Denmark	1	1		2
9	United States	1		2	3
10	BR Germany		1	1	2
11	Austria			1	1
11	Belgium			1	1
11	Czech Republic			1	1

literature

• Cycling , August / September 1987

Web links

• stayer.de