1982 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
# 1982 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 1982 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Leicester, the United Kingdom in 1982. Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's Elite Events ||||
| Men's keirin details | Gordon Singleton Canada | Danny Clark Australia | Toru Kitamura (北村徹) Japan |
| Men's sprint details | Kōichi Nakano Japan | Gordon Singleton Canada | Yavé Cahard France |
| Men's individual pursuit details | Alain Bondue France | Hans-Henrik Ørsted Denmark | Maurizio Bidinost Italy |
| Men's points race details | Urs Freuler Switzerland | Gary Sutton Australia | Roman Hermann Liechtenstein |
| Men's motor-paced details | Martin Venix Netherlands | Wilfried Peffgen Germany | Bruno Vicino Italy |
| Men's Amateur Events ||||
| Men's 1 km time trial details | Fredy Schmidtke West Germany | Lothar Thoms East Germany | Emanuel Raasch East Germany |
| Men's sprint details | Sergei Kopylov Soviet Union | Lutz Hesslich East Germany | Emzar Gulachvili Soviet Union |
| Men's individual pursuit details | Detlef Macha East Germany | Rolf Gölz West Germany | Mario Hernig East Germany |
| Men's team pursuit details | Soviet Union Konstantin Khrabvzov Alexandre Krasnov Valeri Movchan Sergey Nikitenko | West Germany Roland Günther Gerhard Strittmatter Axel Bokeloh Michael Marx | East Germany Detlef Macha Mario Hernig Gerald Buder Volker Winkler |
| Men's points race details | Hans-Joachim Pohl East Germany | Michael Marcussen Denmark | Karl Krenauer Austria |
| Men's motor-paced details | Gaby Minneboo Netherlands | Mattheus Pronk Netherlands | Rainer Podlesch West Germany |
| Men's tandem details | Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martínek | West Germany Dieter Giebken Fredy Schmidtke | Netherlands Sjaak Pieters Tom Vrolijk |
| Women's Events ||||
| Women's sprint details | Connie Paraskevin United States | Sheila Young United States | Claudia Lommatzsch West Germany |
| Women's individual pursuit details | Rebecca Twigg United States | Connie Carpenter United States | Jeannie Longo France |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | East Germany (RDA) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Netherlands (NED) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Liechtenstein (LIE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 14 | 14 | 14 | 42 |
