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 UCI Juniors Track World 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.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Events
Sprint[2] details	Fredy Schmidtke  West Germany	Michel Cortinovis  France	Stefaan De Craene  Belgium
Points race details[2]	Teun van Vliet  Netherlands	Nikolay Trusov  Russia	Jean-François Chaurin  France
Individual pursuit details [2]	Gaidis Liepiņš  Soviet Union	Greg LeMond  United States	Philippe Chevallier  France
Kilo details[2]	Fredy Schmidtke  West Germany	Gadis Lapinch  Soviet Union	Michel Cortinovis  France
Team pursuit details[2]	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

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