1978 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

1978 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

Venue	Washington, D.C.,  United States
Date(s)	(1978)1978

The 1978 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the fourth annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Washington, D.C., United States in August 1978.^[1] Washington, D.C. was the host city for the 1978 Junior World Championships, but the track events were held at the Trexlertown Velodrome (PA). It was the first championship to be held outside Europe

The Championships had five events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit and 1 kilometre time trial.

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Events
Sprint[2] details	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union	Mich Hotzan  East Germany	Frank Micke  East Germany
Points race details[2]	Kenny De Maerteleire  Belgium	Allan Peiper  Australia	Michael Marx  West Germany
Individual pursuit details [2]	Alex Grosser  East Germany	Viktor Manakov  Soviet Union	Thomas Schnelle  East Germany
Kilo details[2]	Frank Micke  East Germany	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union	Heinz Isler   Switzerland
Team pursuit details[2]	Soviet Union Alexandre Krasnov Nikolai Manakov Viktor Manakov Ivan Mitchenko	West Germany Frank Enger Markus Intra Michael Maue Peter Stalla	East Germany Bernd Dittert Michael Koller Axel Grosser Thomas Schnelle

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	0	4
2	East Germany (GDR)	2	1	3	6
3	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
4	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
5	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
6	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		5	5	5	15

Source: ^[2]

References

1. 1978 WJTC venue
2. 1978 World Junior Track Championships results the-sports.org