UCI track world championships 1995

The 85th UCI Track World Championships took place from September 26th to 30th, 1995 in the "Velódromo Luis Carlos Galán" in Bogotá ( Colombia ). There were twelve disciplines on the program, eight for men and four for women. For the first time, the disciplines of Olympic sprint and two-man team driving for men were held; they replace the disciplines of tandem and standing races .

The velodrome offered space for 7800 spectators. Every day it was about half filled with an “always happy and enthusiastic” audience. The open cement track measured 333.33 meters, several races had to be postponed due to rain. The competition site is at an altitude of 2,600 meters, which resulted in four annual world bests. The cycling : "Although the organization [...] adopted sometimes chaotic features, but in principle, it was as one might expect, it took a lot of positive impressions [...] home."

The German team could only win two medals. The 36-year-old Michael Huebner from Chemnitz took part in the gold in the Olympic sprint, won the silver in the Keirin and became a crowd favorite. Even before the start of the competition, the largest Colombian daily newspaper El Tiempo had dedicated a cover story to the German “cycling veteran”.

The World Championships were overshadowed by a serious training accident involving the 21-year-old French racing driver Patrice Sulpice , who has been in a wheelchair since then.

Results women

discipline	space	country	athlete	time
sprint	1		Félicia Ballanger	11.491 (2) 12.048 (3)
	2		Olga Slyusareva	11.923 (1)
	3		Erika Salumäe	12.564 (1) 11.928 (2)
Time trial (500 m)	1		Félicia Ballanger	34.017
	2		Galina Yenyukhina	34.962
	3		Michelle Ferris	35,313
Single pursuit (3000 m)	1		Rebecca Twigg	3.36,081
	2		Antonella Bellutti	3.46,611
	3		May Britt Våland	3.37,437
Points race	1		Svetlana Samokhvalova	25 p.
	2		Nada Cristofoli	20 p.
	3		Nathalie Lancien	18 p.

Results men

discipline	space	country	athlete
sprint	1		Darryn Hill	10.525 (2) 10.523 (3)
	2		Curt Harnett	10,540 (1)
	3		Frédéric Magné	10.930 (1) 11.437 (2)
Time trial (1000 m)	1		Shane Kelly
	2		Florian Rousseau
	3		Erin Hartwell
Keirin	1		Frédéric Magné
	2		Michael Huebner
	3		Federico Paris
Olympic sprint	1		Jens Fiedler / Michael Hübner / Jan van Eijden	58.098
	2		Benoît Vétu / Hervé Thuet / Florian Rousseau	58,335
	3		Marty Nothstein / Erin Hartwell / William Clay	59.289
Single pursuit (4000 m)	1		Graeme Obree	4.24.182
	2		Andrea Collinelli	4.25,677
	3		Stuart O'Grady	4.23,637
Team pursuit (4000 m)	1		Bradley McGee / Stuart O'Grady / Rodney McGee / Tim O'Shannessey	4.05.010
	2		Dimitri Tolstenkow / Bohdan Bondarjew / Serhij Matwjejew / Oleksandr Symonenko	4.07.906
	3		Mariano Friedick / Dirk Copeland / Conrad Zach / Matt Hamon	4.12,530
Points race (50 km)	1		Silvio Martinello	38 P.
	2		Remigijus Lupeikis	16 p.
	3		Sergei Lavrenenko	16 p.
Two-man team driving	1		Silvio Martinello / Marco Villa
	2		Gabriel Curuchet / Juan Esteban Curuchet
	3		Kurt Betschart / Bruno Risi

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	France	3	2	2	7th
2	Australia	3		2	5
3	Italy	2	3	1	6th
4th	Russia	1	2		3
5	Germany	1	1		2
6th	United States	1		3	4th
7th	United Kingdom	1			1
8th	Argentina		1		1
8th	Canada		1		1
8th	Lithuania		1		1
8th	Ukraine		1		1
12	Estonia			1	1
12	Switzerland			1	1
12	Kazakhstan			1	1
12	Norway			1	1

See also

• UCI Road World Championships 1995

swell

• Cycling , 1995

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling , October 3, 1995, p. 3
2. ↑ ibid