1980 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

The 1980 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the sixth annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Mexico City, Mexico in August 1980.^[1] It was the third successive championship to be held in the Americas.

1980 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships

Venue	Mexico City,  Mexico
Date(s)	(1980-08)August 1980
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The Championships had five events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit and 1 kilometre time trial. Maic Malchow of East Germany and Dainis Leipinch of the Soviet Union were the most successful cyclists, winning the sprint double and pursuit double respectively.

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's events
Sprint[2] details	Maic Malchow  East Germany	Olaf Arndt  East Germany	El Guilachvli  Soviet Union
Points race details[2]	Uwe Messerschmidt  West Germany	Mat Lange  West Germany	José Youshimatz  Mexico
Pursuit details [2]	Dainis Liepiņš  Soviet Union	Mario Kummer  East Germany	Uwe Tromer  East Germany
Kilo details[2]	Maic Malchow  East Germany	Andris Lotsmelis  Soviet Union	Rob Werner  West Germany
Team pursuit details[2]	Soviet Union Andris Lotsmelis Dainis Liepiņš Martin Palis Sergei Agupov	East Germany Mario Kummer Frank Kuhn Uwe Tromer Gerald Buder	Great Britain Pierce Hewitt Gary Sadler Darryl Webster Anthony Mayer

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	2	3	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	1	3
4	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		5	5	5	15

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