1977 World Track Cycling Championships

Host City San Cristóbal
Country VEN
Held 22 – 26 August 1977
Competitors 45
Countries 16

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Sprint Men Medal 3 1
Sprint Professionals Men Medal 3 2
Stayer Men Medal 3 3
Stayer Men Medal 3 3
Points Race Men Medal 3 3
Individual Pursuit Men Medal 3 2
Individual Pursuit Professionals Men Medal 3 3
Team Pursuit Men Medal 12 3
Tandem Men Medal 6 3
1 km Time Trial Men Medal 3 3
Sprint Women Medal 3 3
Individual Pursuit Women Medal 3 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 East Germany GDR 4 2 1 7
2 Soviet Union URS 2 1 1 4
3 Netherlands NED 2 1 0 3
4 Germany GER 1 3 2 6
5 Japan JPN 1 1 0 2
6 Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 1 2
7 Belgium BEL 1 0 0 1
8 Norway NOR 0 1 0 1
= Poland POL 0 1 0 1
= Spain ESP 0 1 0 1
= United States USA 0 1 0 1
12 Switzerland SUI 0 0 3 3
13 Australia AUS 0 0 1 1
= Canada CAN 0 0 1 1
= Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1
= Italy ITA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Sprint, Men Hans-Jürgen Geschke GDR Emanuel Raasch GDR Lutz Heßlich GDR
Sprint Professionals, Men Koichi Nakano JPN Yoshua Sugata JPN John Nicholson AUS
Stayer, Men Cees Stam NED Wilfried Peffgen GER Pietro Algeri ITA
Stayer, Men Gabriel Minneboo NED Bartolomé Caldentey ESP Rainer Podlesch GER
Points Race, Men Constant Tourné BEL Jan Faltyn POL Nikolay Makarov URS
Individual Pursuit Professionals, Men Gregor Braun GER Knut Knudsen NOR Stephen Heffernan GBR
Individual Pursuit, Men Norbert Dürpisch GDR Uwe Unterwalder GDR Daniel Gisiger SUI
Team Pursuit, Men East Germany GDR Germany GER Switzerland SUI
Tandem, Men Vladimír Vačkář / Miroslav Vymazal TCH Vladimir Semenets / Aleksandr Voronin URS Horst Gewiss / Wolfgang Schaffer GER
1 km Time Trial, Men Lothar Thoms GDR Günther Schumacher GER Hans Ledermann SUI
Sprint, Women Galina Tsareva URS Sue Novara USA Iva Zajícková TCH
Individual Pursuit, Women Vera Kuznetsova URS Anna Riemersma NED Karen Strong CAN