1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

Host city	Bordeaux, France
Date(s)	(1998-08-26 - 1998-08-30)August 26–30, 1998
Velodrome	Vélodrome de Bordeaux
Nations participating	32
Events	12
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The 1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Bordeaux, France from August 26 to August 30, 1998. 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	1	2	9
2	Spain	2			2
3	Germany	1	3	4	8
4	Australia	1	3	1	5
5	Belgium	1			1
5	Ukraine	1			1
7	Italy		1	2	3
8	Canada		1	1	2
9	Latvia		1		1
	Mexico		1		1
	Netherlands		1		1
12	Russia			1	1
12	United States			1	1

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Events
Men's sprint	Florian Rousseau France		Jens Fiedler Germany		Laurent Gané France
Men's 1 km time trial	Arnaud Tournant France	1:01.879	Shane Kelly Australia	1:02.261	Erin Hartwell United States	1:02.637
Men's individual pursuit	Philippe Ermenault France	4:20.627	Francis Moreau France	4:21.466	Robert Bartko Germany	4:26.890
Men's team pursuit	Alexander Symonenko Sergiy Matveyev Oleksandr Fedenko Olexandr Klimenko Ukraine	4:02.895	Christian Lademann Daniel Becke Robert Bartko Guido Fulst Germany	4:08.160	Andrea Colinelli Adler Capelli Cristiano Citton Mario Benetton Italy
Men's team sprint	Vincent Le Quellec Florian Rousseau Arnaud Tournant France	44.338	Danny Day Shane Kelly Graham Sharman Australia	45.464	Sören Lausberg Stefan Nimke Eyk Pokorny Germany	45.210
Men's keirin	Jens Fiedler Germany		Ainars Kiksis Latvia		Laurent Gané France
Men's points race	Joan Llaneras Spain		Andrea Kappes Germany		Silvio Martinello Italy
Men's madison	Etienne De Wilde Matthew Gilmore Belgium		Silvio Martinello Andrea Collinelli Italy		Andreas Kappes Stefan Steinweg Germany
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Félicia Ballanger France		Michelle Ferris Australia		Tanya Dubnicoff Canada
Women's 500 m time trial	Félicia Ballanger France	34.010 W.R.	Tanya Dubnicoff Canada	35.415	Michelle Ferris Australia	35.451
Women's individual pursuit	Lucy Tyler-Sharman Australia	3:35.255	Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel Netherlands	3:27.291	Judith Arndt Germany	3:35.676
Women's points race	Teodora Ruano Spain		Belem Guerrero Mexico		Olga Slioussareva Russia

External links

1998 UCI World Championships

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Championships records

Years	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915–1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Countries	Australia Cuba Netherlands (incomplete country list)

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