1981 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

1981 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

Venue	Leipzig,  West Germany
Date	(1981-08)August 1981

The 1981 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships were the seventh annual Junior World Championships for track cycling held in Grimma, Leipzig, West Germany in August 1981.^[1]

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[2]
Sprint	Olaf Arndt  East Germany	P. Rampazzo  Italy	Bruno Bannes  France
Points race	Fabio Lana  Italy	Mat Lange  West Germany	Kenneth Bering  Denmark
Individual pursuit	Reinhard Alber  West Germany	Marat Ganeyev  Soviet Union	Martin Palis  Soviet Union
Team pursuit	Dainis Grantinch Martin Palis Marat Ganeyev Yuri Kasakov  Soviet Union	Frank Siggelkowe Carsten Wolf Steven Planitzer Thomas Raddatz  East Germany	Pascal Carrara Bruno Wojtinek Christian Noiret Dominique Lecrocq  France
Time trial	Marcelo Alexandre  Argentina	Dirk Streicher  East Germany	Stefano Baudino  Italy

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	1	2	0	3
2	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	1	3
4	West Germany (FRG)*	1	1	0	2
5	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
7	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		5	5	5	15

References