1968 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 1968 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. The events for the professional men and women's were held in Rome, Italy. The other events took place in Montevideo, Uruguay.^[1] Eleven events were contested, 9 for men (3 for professionals, 6 for amateurs) and 2 for women between 22 and 27 August 1968.

1968 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	Rome, Italy Montevideo, Uruguay
Date(s)	(1968-08-22 - 1968-08-27)22–27 August 1968
Velodrome	Olympic Velodrome Americo Ricaldoni
Events	11
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Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's sprint details	Giuseppe Beghetto  Italy	Patrick Sercu  Belgium	Giovanni Pettenella  Italy
Men's individual pursuit details	Hugh Porter  Great Britain	Ole Ritter  Denmark	Leandro Faggin  Italy
Men's motor-paced details	Leo Proost  Belgium	Piet De Wit  Netherlands	Ehrenfried Rudolph  West Germany
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial details	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Jack Simes  United States	Gianni Sartori  Italy
Men's sprint details	Luigi Borghetti  Italy	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Robert Van Lancker  Belgium
Men's individual pursuit details	Mogens Frey  Denmark	Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland	Lorenzo Bosisio  Italy
Men's team pursuit details	Italy Cipriano Chemello Lorenzo Bosisio Giorgio Morbiato Luigi Roncaglia	Argentina Carlos Miguel Álvarez Juan Alves Ernesto Contreras Juan Alberto Merlos	Sweden Erik Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Gösta Pettersson Josef Ripfel
Men's motor-paced details	Giuseppe Grassi  Italy	Cees Stam  Netherlands	Benny Herger  Switzerland
Men's tandem details	Italy Walter Gorini Giordano Turrini	Belgium Daniel Goens Robert Van Lancker	Japan Sanji Inoue Takao Mandarame
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Alla Baguiniantz  Soviet Union	Irina Kiritchenko  Soviet Union	Galina Ermolaeva  Soviet Union
Women's individual pursuit details	Raisa Obodovskaya  Soviet Union	Beryl Burton  Great Britain	Keetie van Oosten-Hage  Netherlands

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	5	0	4	9
2	Denmark (DEN)	2	2	0	4
3	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
4	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	1	4
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
6	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	1	3
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
8	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		11	11	11	33

See also

• 1968 UCI Road World Championships