Cycling at the 1983 Summer Universiade

The Cycling Tournament at the 1983 Summer Universiade took place in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) in July 1983. Cycling was included in the Summer Universiade programme as an optional sport.[1] There were 12 cycling events; 8 for track cycling and 4 for road cycling.[2] The venue for track cycling was the Argyll Velodrome. The finish of the road races were in Hawerlark Park.

Events

Track time trials

In the afternoon competition on 4 July under the sun at the Argyll Velodrome, two cyclists from the Soviet Union won men's and women's 1 km time trial. Aleksandr Panfilov took the men's event in 1:06.874 seconds, 1.015 sec ahead of the silver medalist Stefano Baudino from Italy and 1.1667 sec faster than Andris Zelch-Lotchmelis of the Soviet Union. In the women's time trial Erika Salumäe of the USSR captured the gold with a time of 1:14.554. Isabelle Nicoloso of France, who was 1.316 seconds slower, won the silver medal and Soviet Nadezhda Kibardina finished third.

Women's road race

The team of the Soviet Union rode with their team throughout the race very strong. At the end there was a front group of three riders, two from the Soviet Union (Nadezhda Kibardina and Tamara Poliakova) and Jeannie Longo from France. On the finish in Hawerlark Park Kibardina won the sprint ahead of Poliakova and Longo.

Medalists

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union106521
2 France1326
3 Italy1113
4 Netherlands0101
5 Romania0101
6 Canada0011
7 China0011
7 Cuba0011
7 South Korea0011
Total 12 12 12 36

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Road cycling

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Event[3] Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race[4]  Sergio Scremin (ITA)  Pavel Muzhitskiy (URS)  Shin Dea Cheul (KOR)
Men's team time trial Soviet Union Soviet Union Netherlands Netherlands Italy Italy
Women's road race[5]  Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)  Tamara Poliakova (URS)  Jeannie Longo (FRA)

Track cycling

Event[6] Gold Silver Bronze
Men's sprint  Aleksey Dotsenko (URS)  Yemzar Guelachvili (URS)  Almenares Triana (CUB)
Men's 1 km time trial  Aleksandr Panfilov (URS)
1:06.874
 Stefano Baudino (ITA)
+ 1.015
 Andris Zelch-Lotchmelis (URS)
+ 1.1667
Men's individual pursuit  Aleksandr Krasnov (URS)  Viktor Manakov (URS)  Alex Stieda (CAN)
Men's points race  Viktor Manakov (URS)  Gheorghe Lautara (ROM)  Robert Spezzatti (FRA)
Women's sprint  Erika Salumäe (URS)  Isabelle Nicoloso (FRA)  Yang Guiling (CHN)
Women's 1 km time trial  Erika Salumäe (URS)
1:14.554
 Isabelle Nicoloso (FRA)
+ 1.316
 Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)
Women's individual pursuit  Nadezhda Kibardina (URS)  Jeannie Longo (FRA)  Tamara Polyakova (URS)
Women's points race  Isabelle Nicoloso (FRA)  Erika Salumäe (URS)  Yekaterina Starikova (URS)

References

  1. "FISU". FISU. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  2. 1 2 Results on HickoSports.com
  3. Medalists
  4. "Men's results on Cyclingarchives". Cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 2012-10-26.
  5. "Jeannie vs the Soviet Machine". cyclingart.com. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  6. Cycling Universiade
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