The 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1981.^[1] Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's keirin details	Danny Clark  Australia	Guido Bontempi  Italy	Chiyoshi Kuno (久保千代志)  Japan
Men's sprint details	Kōichi Nakano  Japan	Gordon Singleton  Canada	Kenji Takahashi (高橋健二)  Japan
Men's individual pursuit details	Alain Bondue  France	Hans-Henrik Ørsted  Denmark	Bert Oosterbosch  Netherlands
Men's points race details	Urs Freuler  Switzerland	Danny Clark  Australia	Giuseppe Saronni  Italy
Men's motor-paced details	René Kos  Netherlands	Bruno Vicino  Italy	Wilfried Peffgen  West Germany
Men's Amateur Events
Men's 1 km time trial details	Lothar Thoms  East Germany 1:05.85	Fredy Schmidtke  West Germany 1:06.02	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union 1:06.56
Men's sprint details	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union	Lutz Hesslich  East Germany	Detlef Uibel  East Germany
Men's individual pursuit details	Detlef Macha  East Germany 4:47.78	Dainis Liepiņš  Soviet Union 4:55.19	Maurizio Bidinost  Italy 4:49.40
Men's team pursuit details	East Germany Detlef Macha Bernd Dittert Axel Grosser Volker Winkler	Soviet Union Alexandre Krasnov Viktor Manakov Alexandre Kulikov Nikolai Kuznetzov	Czechoslovakia Martin Penc Aleš Trčka František Raboň Jiří Pokorný
Men's points race details	Lutz Haueisen  East Germany	Leonard Harvey Nitz  United States	Michael Marcussen  Denmark
Men's motor-paced details	Mattheus Pronk  Netherlands	Rainer Podlesch  West Germany	Max Hurzeler  Switzerland
Men's tandem details	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martínek	West Germany Dieter Giebken Fredy Schmidtke	Poland Ryszard Konkolewski Zbigniew Piątek
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Sheila Young  United States	Claudine Vierstraete  Belgium	Claudia Lommatzsch  West Germany
Women's individual pursuit details	Nadezhda Kibardina  Soviet Union	Tamara Polyakova  Soviet Union	Jeannie Longo  France

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (RDA)	4	1	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	1	6
3	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	1	3
4	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
6	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	1	2
	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
10	West Germany (FRG)	0	3	2	5
11	Italy (ITA)	0	2	2	4
12	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
15	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		14	14	14	42

Competitors

The Netherlands

The next riders were selected by the KNWU after the Dutch national championships and were published on 10 August 1981.^[2]

Australia

Men's professional

Danny Clark - men's keirin

Belgium

Women

Claudine Vierstraete - women's sprint (eliminated Galina Tsareva in earlier round)

Gerda Sierens - women's individual pursuit

Canada

Men's amateurs

? - men's team pursuit

? - men's team pursuit

? - men's team pursuit

? - men's team pursuit

Denmark

Men's professional

Oersted - individual pursuit

Czech Republic

Women

? - women's sprint (won her qualification heat)

Hana Hotova - women's sprint (finished 2nd in qualification heat)

East Germany

Men's amateur

Detlaf Macha - amateur individual pursuit (won qualification in 4:46.71, won final in 4:47.78)

France

Men's amateur

Cahard - sprint (felt and broke two ribs)

Men's professional

Patrick Clerc - keirin (felt in 1st round repaches and was taken away with a brancard)

West Germany

Women

Claudia Lommatzsch - women's sprint (qualified 1st round, qualified 2nd round, won 3rd round from Sue Novarra (2-0), quarter final.., won bronze final from Natalya Kroetsjeniskaja after 3 races)

Men's amateur

Rainer Podlesch - motor-paced (qualified for final after winning qualification heat)

Schutz - motor-paced

Men's professional

Schultz - motor-paced

Italy

Men's amateur

Fusarpoli - motor-paced (qualified for final after winning qualification heat)

Men's professional

Borgognoni - individual pursuit

Morandi - individual pursuit

Vicino - motor-paced

Women

Rosella Gabiati - women's sprint (won 1st round from Sue Novarra)

Lebanon

Men's amateur

Ahmed Abdussal Gariani - sprint (lost from Rainier Valkenburg in 1st round)

Poland

Men's amateur

Jan Jankiewicz - individual pursuit (lost bronze medal race from Maurizio Bidinost (5:52.01 vs 4:49.40))

Platek - sprint (won 2nd round repaches from Rainier Valkenburg)

Konkoleweski - tandem (lost from the Netherlands in first round, won the repechages)

? - tandem (lost from the Netherlands in first round, won the repechages)

Brazil

? - men's amateur individual pursuit

Soviet Union

Women's

Galina Tsareva - women's sprint (eliminated by Claudine Vierstraete)

Natalya Kroetsjeniskaja - women's sprint (lost bronze final from Claudia Lommatzsch after 3 races)

Olga Kibardina - women's individual pursuit

Men's amateur

Goelasjvili - sprint (won 2nd round from Rainier Valkenburg)

Switzerland

Men's amateur

Max Hurzeler - motor-paced

Isler - sprint (lost from Rainier Valkenburg in 1st round)

Men's professional

Urs Freuler - keirin

United States

Women

Conny Paravaskin - sprint (finished 3rd in her qualification heat)

Sheila Young - sprint (qualified 1st round, won 2nd round from Erica Oomen, qualified 3rd round, result quarter final?)

Sue Novarra - sprint (lost 1st round from Rosella Gabiati, lost 2nd round, won 2nd round repechages from Erica Oomen, lost 3rd round from Lommatzsch (0-2))

Men's professional

Eric Heiden - individual pursuit (finished 19th and last)