1979 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

Cycling championship held in Buenos Aires, Argentina

1979 World Juniors Track Cycling ChampionshipsVenue| Buenos Aires,  Argentina

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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.

## Events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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: [2]

## References

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1. ^ 1979 WJTC venue
2. ^ a b c d e f 1979 WJTC results the-sports.org

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