1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Host city	Perth, Australia
Date(s)	(1997-08-27 - 1997-08-31)27–31 August 1997
Velodrome	Perth SpeedDome
Events	12
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The 1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Perth, Australia from 27 August 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.

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	6		2	8
2	Italy	2	1	1	4
3	Germany	1	3	1	5
4	Australia	1	2	2	5
5	Russia	1	2	1	4
6	Spain	1	1	1	3
7	South Africa		1		1
	Switzerland		1		1
	Ukraine		1		1
10	Argentina			1	1
	Great Britain			1	1
	Mexico			1	1
	United States			1	1

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's sprint	Florian Rousseau France		Jens Fiedler Germany		Darryn Hill Australia
Men's 1 km time trial	Shane Kelly Australia	1:03.4702	Sören Lausberg Germany	1:03.390	Stefan Nimke Germany	1:03.470
Men's individual pursuit	Philippe Ermenault France	4:23.058	Alexei Markov Russia	4:27.350	Andrea Collinelli Italy	4:27.511
Men's team pursuit	Andrea Capelli Cristiano Citton Andrea Collinelli Mario Benetton Italy	4:10.225	Oleksandr Klymenko Alexander Fedenko Sergiy Matveyev Alexander Symonenko Ukraine	crashed	Carlos Da Cruz Philippe Ermenault Jérôme Neuville Franck Perque France	?
Men's team sprint	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	Frédéric Magné France		Johann Van Zyl South Africa		Marty Nothstein United States
Men's points race	Silvio Martinello Italy	37	Bruno Risi Switzerland	16	Juan Llaneras Spain	15
Men's madison	Miguel Alzamora Juan Llaneras Spain	19	Silvio Martinello Marco Villa Italy	13	Gabriel Curuchet Juan Curuchet Argentina	11
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Félicia Ballanger France		Michelle Ferris Australia		Oksana Grichina Russia
Women's 500 m time trial	Félicia Ballanger France	34.681	Michelle Ferris Australia	35.719	Magali Faure France	35.898
Women's individual pursuit	Judith Arndt Germany	3:38.730	Natalia Karimova Russia	3:40.090	Yvonne McGregor Great Britain
Women's points race	Natalia Karimova Russia	29	Teodora Ruano Spain	29	Belem Guerrero Mexico	19

External links

1997 UCI World Championships

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Championships records

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Cyclists	... 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Countries	Australia Cuba Netherlands (incomplete country list)

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