1970 UCI Track Cycling World Championships explained

Venue:	Leicester, United Kingdom
Date:	1970
Velodrome:	Saffron Lane Velodrome
Events:	11
Previous:	Antwerp/Brno 1969
Next:	Varese 1971

The 1970 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Leicester, United Kingdom in 1970.^[1] Eleven events were contested, 9 for men (3 for professionals, 6 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Men's Professional Events
Men's sprint	Gordon Johnson	Sante Gaiardoni	Leijn Loevesijn
	Hugh Porter	Lorenzo Bosisio	Charly Grosskost
Men's motor-paced	Ehrenfried Rudolph	Theo Verschueren	Piet de Wit
Men's Amateur Events
	Niels Fredborg	Harry Kent	Anton Tkáč
Men's sprint	Daniel Morelon	Peder Pedersen	Gérard Quintyn
	Xaver Kurmann	Ian Hallam	Viktor Bykov
Men's team pursuit			Stanislav Moskvin Vladimir Kuznetsov Viktor Bykov Vladimir Semenets
Men's motor-paced	Cees Stam	Horst Gnas	Antonio Cerda
Men's tandem			Gérard Quintyn Daniel Morelon
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Galina Tsareva	Galina Ermolaeva	Valentina Savina
Women's individual pursuit	Tamara Garkuchina	Raisa Obodovskaya	Beryl Burton

See also

• 1970 UCI Road World Championships

Notes and References

1. http://www.bikecult.com/bikecultbook/sports_trackWorlds.html World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893