1977 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

1977 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Date(s)	(1977)1977
Velodrome	José de Jesús Mora Figueroa Velodrome
Events	12

The 1977 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in San Cristóbal, Venezuela in 1977.^[1] Twelve events were contested, 10 for men (3 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's sprint details	Kōichi Nakano  Japan	Yoshikazu Sugata (菅田順和)  Japan	John Nicholson  Australia
Men's individual pursuit details	Gregor Braun  West Germany	Knut Knudsen  Norway	Steve Heffernan  Great Britain
Men's motor-paced details	Cees Stam  Netherlands	Wilfried Peffgen  West Germany	Pietro Algeri  Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial details	Lothar Thoms  East Germany	Günther Schumacher  West Germany	Hans Ledermann  Switzerland
Men's sprint details	Hans-Jürgen Geschke  East Germany	Emanuel Raasch  East Germany	Lutz Hesslich  East Germany
Men's individual pursuit details	Norbert Dürpisch  East Germany	Uwe Unterwalder  East Germany	Daniel Gisiger  Switzerland
Men's team pursuit details	East Germany Norbert Dürpisch Gerald Mortag Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler	West Germany Günther Schumacher Peter Vonhof Hans Lutz Henry Rincklin	Switzerland Robert Dill-Bundi Daniel Gisiger Hans Kaenel Walter Baumgartner
Men's points race details	Constant Tourné  Belgium	Jan Faltyn  Poland	Nikolaï Makarov  Soviet Union
Men's motor-paced details	Gaby Minneboo  Netherlands	Bartolome Caldentey  Spain	Rainer Podlesch  West Germany
Men's tandem details	Czechoslovakia Vladimír Vačkář Miloslav Vymazal	Soviet Union Vladimir Semenets Aleksander Voronine	West Germany Horst Gewis Wolfgang Schaffer
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Galina Tsareva  Soviet Union	Sue Novara  United States	Iva Zajíčková  Czechoslovakia
Women's individual pursuit details	Vera Kuznetsova  Soviet Union	Anna Riemersma  Netherlands	Karen Strong  Canada

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	4	2	1	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	Netherlands (NED)	2	1	0	3
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	3	2	6
5	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
8	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
12	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	3	3
13	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		12	12	12	36

See also

• 1977 UCI Road World Championships

References

1. World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893