Cycling at the 1983 Summer Universiade

The Cycling Tournament at the 1983 Summer Universiade took place in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) in July 1983. Cycling was included in the Summer Universiade programme as an optional sport.^[1] There were 12 cycling events; 8 for track cycling and 4 for road cycling.^[2] The venue for track cycling was the Argyll Velodrome. The finish of the road races were in Hawerlark Park.

Events

Track time trials

In the afternoon competition on 4 July under the sun at the Argyll Velodrome, two cyclists from the Soviet Union won men's and women's 1 km time trial. Aleksandr Panfilov took the men's event in 1:06.874 seconds, 1.015 sec ahead of the silver medalist Stefano Baudino from Italy and 1.1667 sec faster than Andris Zelch-Lotchmelis of the Soviet Union. In the women's time trial Erika Salumäe of the USSR captured the gold with a time of 1:14.554. Isabelle Nicoloso of France, who was 1.316 seconds slower, won the silver medal and Soviet Nadezhda Kibardina finished third.

Women's road race

The team of the Soviet Union rode with their team throughout the race very strong. At the end there was a front group of three riders, two from the Soviet Union (Nadezhda Kibardina and Tamara Poliakova) and Jeannie Longo from France. On the finish in Hawerlark Park Kibardina won the sprint ahead of Poliakova and Longo.

Medalists

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	10	6	5	21
2	France (FRA)	1	3	2	6
3	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
4	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
6	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		12	12	12	36

^[2]

Road cycling

Event[3]	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race[4]	Sergio Scremin (ITA)	Pavel Muzhitskiy (URS)	Shin Dea Cheul (KOR)
Men's team time trial[5]	Soviet Union Yuriy Kashirin Sergey Navolokin Sergey Voronin Yevgeniy Korolkov	Netherlands Henk Boeve Maarten Ducrot Willem Jennen Tanke Kolkhuis	Italy Ennio Minello Roberto Paoletti Fabio Sciamanna Sergio Scremin
Women's road race[6]	Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)	Tamara Poliakova (URS)	Jeannie Longo (FRA)
Women's time trial[7]	Tamara Poliakova (URS)	L. Slepokurova (URS)	Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)

Track cycling

Event[8]	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's sprint	Aleksey Dotsenko (URS)	Yemzar Guelachvili (URS)	Almenares Triana (CUB)
Men's 1 km time trial	Aleksandr Panfilov (URS) 1:06.874	Stefano Baudino (ITA) + 1.015	Andris Zelch-Lotchmelis (URS) + 1.1667
Men's individual pursuit	Aleksandr Krasnov (URS)	Viktor Manakov (URS)	Alex Stieda (CAN)
Men's points race	Viktor Manakov (URS)	Gheorghe Lautara (ROM)	Robert Spezzatti (FRA)
Women's sprint	Erika Salumäe (URS)	Isabelle Nicoloso (FRA)	Yang Guiling (CHN)
Women's 1 km time trial	Erika Salumäe (URS) 1:14.554	Isabelle Nicoloso (FRA) + 1.316	Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)
Women's individual pursuit	Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)	Jeannie Longo (FRA)	Tamara Polyakova (URS)
Women's points race	Isabelle Nicoloso (FRA)	Erika Salumäe (URS)	Yekaterina Starikova (URS)

References

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3. Medalists
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8. Cycling Universiade^{[permanent dead link‍]}