1988 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

1988 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	Ghent, Belgium
Date(s)	(1988-08-21 - 1988-08-25)21–25 August 1988
Velodrome	Blaarmeersen
Events	9

The 1988 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Ghent, Belgium from 21 to 25 August 1988.^[1] Eight events were contested, 7 for men (5 for professionals, 2 for amateurs) and 1 for women with a demonstration non-Championship points race for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Elite Events
Men's keirin details	Claudio Golinelli  Italy	Ottavio Dazzan  Italy	Michel Vaarten  Belgium
Men's sprint details	Stephen Pate  Australia	Claudio Golinelli  Italy	Nobuyuki Tawara  Japan
Men's individual pursuit details	Lech Piasecki  Poland	Tony Doyle  Great Britain	Jesper Worre  Denmark
Men's points race details	Daniel Wyder  Switzerland	Adriano Baffi  Italy	Michael Marcussen  Denmark
Men's motor-paced details	Danny Clark  Australia	Constant Tourné  Belgium	Walter Brugna  Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's motor-paced details	Vincenzo Colamartino  Italy	Roland Königshofer  Austria	Roland Renn  Germany
Men's tandem details	France Fabrice Colas Frédéric Magné	West Germany Greil Hans-Jürgen Uwe Butchmann	Czechoslovakia Jiří Illek Lubomír Hargaš
Women's Events
Women's individual pursuit details	Jeannie Longo  France	Barbara Ganz  Switzerland	Mindee Mayfield  United States
Women's points race details	Sally Hodge  Great Britain	Barbara Ganz  Switzerland	Monique de Bruin  Netherlands

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
	France (FRA)	2	0	0	2
3	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
4	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	0	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
6	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
8	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
10	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
11	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		8	8	8	24

See also

• 1988 UCI Road World Championships

References

1. World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893