1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Perth, Western Australia from 27 to 31 August 1997. Twelve events were contested, eight for the men and four for the women. France dominated most of the events, taking home half of the gold medals on offer.

1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Venue	Perth, Western Australia
Date(s)	(1997-08-27 - 1997-08-31)27–31 August 1997
Velodrome	Perth SpeedDome
Events	12
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	6	0	2	8
2	Italy (ITA)	2	1	1	4
3	Germany (GER)	1	3	1	5
4	Australia (AUS)	1	2	2	5
5	Russia (RUS)	1	2	1	4
6	Spain (ESP)	1	1	1	3
7	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
10	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's sprint details	Florian Rousseau  France		Jens Fiedler  Germany		Darryn Hill  Australia
Men's 1 km time trial details	Shane Kelly  Australia	1:03.156	Sören Lausberg  Germany	1:03.397	Stefan Nimke  Germany	1:03.470
Men's individual pursuit details	Philippe Ermenault  France	4:23.058	Alexei Markov  Russia	4:27.350	Andrea Collinelli  Italy	4:27.511
Men's team pursuit details	Andrea Capelli Cristiano Citton Andrea Collinelli Mario Benetton  Italy	4:10.225	Oleksandr Klymenko Olexandr Fedenko Sergiy Matveyev Alexander Symonenko  Ukraine	crashed	Carlos Da Cruz Philippe Ermenault Jérôme Neuville Franck Perque  France	?
Men's team sprint details	Vincent Le Quellec Florian Rousseau Arnaud Tournant  France	44.926	Sören Lausberg Eyk Pokorny Jan van Eijden  Germany	46.257	Danny Day Sean Eadie Shane Kelly  Australia	46.268
Men's keirin details	Frédéric Magné  France		Jean-Pierre van Zyl  South Africa		Marty Nothstein  United States
Men's points race details	Silvio Martinello  Italy	37	Bruno Risi  Switzerland	16	Juan Llaneras  Spain	15
Men's madison details	Miguel Alzamora Juan Llaneras  Spain	19	Silvio Martinello Marco Villa  Italy	13	Gabriel Curuchet Juan Curuchet  Argentina	11
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Félicia Ballanger  France		Michelle Ferris  Australia		Oksana Grichina  Russia
Women's 500 m time trial details	Félicia Ballanger  France	34.681	Michelle Ferris  Australia	35.719	Magali Faure  France	35.898
Women's individual pursuit details	Judith Arndt  Germany	3:38.730	Natalia Karimova  Russia	3:40.090	Yvonne McGregor  Great Britain
Women's points race details	Natalia Karimova  Russia	29	Teodora Ruano  Spain	29	Belem Guerrero  Mexico	19

External links

• Official event website
• UCI website
• 1997 reports and results at cycclingnews.com