1979 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

1979 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

Venue	Buenos Aires,   Argentina
Date(s)	(1979-08)August 1979
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The 1979 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships were the fifth annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August 1979. ^[1] It was the second championship to be held outside Europe, the second to be held in the Americas, and the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.

The Championships had five events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit and 1 kilometre time trial. With two golds and a bronze, Fredy Schmidtke had the most successful single games for a cyclist to date, while future Tour de France legend Greg LeMond won his first major medal for the United States.

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Events [2]
Sprint details	Fredy Schmidtke   West Germany	Michel Cortinovis   France	Stefaan De Craene   Belgium
Points race details	Teun van Vliet   Netherlands	Nikolay Trusov   Russia	Jean-François Chaurin   France
Individual pursuit details	Gaidis Liepiņš   Soviet Union	Greg LeMond   United States	Philippe Chevallier   France
Kilo details	Fredy Schmidtke   West Germany	Gadis Lapinch   Soviet Union	Michel Cortinovis   France
Team pursuit details	Soviet Union Gaidis Liepiņš Dainis Liepiņš Vladimir Baluk Yuri Petrov	France Daniel Pandèle Philippe Chevallier Jean-François Dury François Jurain	West Germany Fredy Schmidtke Andreas Suckert Günther Kobek Gerhard Strittmatter

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Argentina)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	2	2	0	4
2	West Germany  (FRG)	2	0	1	3
3	Netherlands  (NED)	1	0	0	1
4	France  (FRA)	0	2	3	5
5	United States  (USA)	0	1	0	1
6	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		5	5	5	15

Source: ^[1]

References

1. World Junior Championships 1979 - Medal Table at the-sports.org
2. World Junior Championships - Results Men 1979 at the-sports.org