1978 World Track Cycling Championships

Host City	München
Country	GER
Held	16 – 21 August 1978
Competitors	46
Countries	12

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	GDR	3	2	3	8
2	Germany	GER	3	1	0	4
3	Czechoslovakia	TCH	2	0	1	3
4	Netherlands	NED	1	4	3	8
5	Soviet Union	URS	1	1	0	2
6	Belgium	BEL	1	0	1	2
=	Japan	JPN	1	0	1	2
8	United States	USA	0	2	0	2
9	Switzerland	SUI	0	1	1	2
10	Canada	CAN	0	1	0	1
11	France	FRA	0	0	1	1
=	Italy	ITA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
Sprint, Men	Anton Tkáč	TCH	Emanuel Raasch	GDR	Christian Drescher	GDR
Sprint Professionals, Men	Koichi Nakano	JPN	Dieter Berkmann	GER	Yoshua Sugata	JPN
Stayer, Men	Wilfried Peffgen	GER	Martinus Venix	NED	Cees Stam	NED
Stayer, Men	Rainer Podlesch	GER	Mattheus Pronk	NED	Martin Rietveld	NED
Points Race, Men	Noël Dejonckheere	BEL	Walter Baumgartner	SUI	Jean-Jacques Rebière	FRA
Individual Pursuit Professionals, Men	Gregor Braun	GER	Roy Schuiten	NED	Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke	BEL
Individual Pursuit, Men	Detlef Macha	GDR	Norbert Dürpisch	GDR	Uwe Unterwalder	GDR
Team Pursuit, Men	East Germany	GDR	Soviet Union	URS	Switzerland	SUI
Tandem, Men	Vladimír Vačkář / Miroslav Vymazal	TCH	Gerald Ash / Leslie Darcewski	USA	Sjaak Pieters / Lau Veldt	NED
1 km Time Trial, Men	Lothar Thoms	GDR	Jocelyn Lovell	CAN	Rainer Hönisch	GDR
Sprint, Women	Galina Tsareva	URS	Sue Novara	USA	Iva Zajícková	TCH
Individual Pursuit, Women	Cornelia Hage-Van Oosten	NED	Anna Riemersma	NED	Luigina Bissoli	ITA