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The 1976 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Monteroni di Lecce, Italy in 1976.^[1] Due to the 1976 Summer Olympics only seven events were contested, 5 for men (3 for professionals, 2 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's sprint details	John Nicholson Australia	Giordano Turrini Italy	Yoshikazu Sugata (菅田順和) Japan
Men's individual pursuit details	Francesco Moser Italy	Roy Schuiten Netherlands	Knut Knudsen Norway
Men's motor-paced details	Wilfried Peffgen West Germany	Cees Stam Netherlands	Walter Avogradi Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's motor-paced details	Gaby Minneboo Netherlands	Bartolome Caldentey Spain	Rainer Podlesch West Germany
Men's tandem details	Poland Benedykt Kocot Janusz Kotlinski	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Miloš Jelínek	Soviet Union Anatoly Iablunowsky Vladimir Semenets
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Sheila Young United States	Sue Novara United States	Iva Zajíčková Czechoslovakia
Women's individual pursuit details	Keetie van Oosten-Hage Netherlands	Luigina Bissoli Italy	Mary Jane Reoch United States


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	2	2	0	4
2	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
3	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
5	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
5	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
8	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
9	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	7	21