1976 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

1976 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

Venue	Liège,  Belgium
Date(s)	(1976)1976

The 1976 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the second annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Liège, Belgium.^[1]

The Championships had four events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit and Team pursuit. Robert Dill-Bundi became the first cyclist to retain a world junior title, and the first to win two gold medals in the championships.

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's events
Sprint[2] details	Lutz Hesslich  East Germany	Ralf-Guido Kuschy  East Germany	Mar Pavirani  Italy
Points race[2] details	Rüdiger Leitlof  West Germany	Jens Schroder  Denmark	P Torresan  Italy
Individual pursuit[2] details	Robert Dill-Bundi   Switzerland	Gerald Mortag  East Germany	Mike Richards  New Zealand
Team pursuit[2] details	East Germany Gerald Mortag Detlef Macha Jürgen Lippold Olaf Hill	Italy Silvestro Milani Roberto Bonanzi Dante Morandi Domenico Pellegrino	Soviet Union Nikolai Makarov Nikolai Seduro Peter Tchevardov Valeri Uraev

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	2	0	4
2	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	0	1
4	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
6	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Source: ^[3]

References

1. 1976 UCI JWTC archives
2. Track Cycling - 1976 World Junior Championships results the-sports.org
3. 1976 medal table