The 1976 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Monteroni di Lecce, Italy in 1976.^[1] Due to the 1976 Summer Olympics only seven events were contested, 5 for men (3 for professionals, 2 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's sprint details	John Nicholson  Australia	Giordano Turrini  Italy	Yoshikazu Sugata (菅田順和)  Japan
Men's individual pursuit details	Francesco Moser  Italy	Roy Schuiten  Netherlands	Knut Knudsen  Norway
Men's motor-paced details	Wilfried Peffgen  West Germany	Cees Stam  Netherlands	Walter Avogradi  Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's motor-paced details	Gaby Minneboo  Netherlands	Bartolome Caldentey  Spain	Rainer Podlesch  West Germany
Men's tandem details	Poland Benedykt Kocot Janusz Kotlinski	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Miloš Jelínek	Soviet Union Anatoly Iablunowsky Vladimir Semenets
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Sheila Young  United States	Sue Novara  United States	Iva Zajíčková  Czechoslovakia
Women's individual pursuit details	Keetie van Oosten-Hage  Netherlands	Luigina Bissoli  Italy	Mary Jane Reoch  United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	2	2	0	4
2	Italy (ITA)	1	2	1	4
3	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
5	Australia (AUS)	1	0	0	1
	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
8	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
9	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	7	21