| Venue: | Besançon, France  |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Velodrome: | Stade Léo Lagrange |
| Events: | 10 |
| Previous: | Amsterdam 1979 |
| Next: | Brno 1981 |
The 1980 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Besançon, France in 1980.[1] Due to the 1980 Summer Olympics only ten events were contested, 8 for men (5 for professionals, 3 for amateurs) and 2 for women.
| Men's Elite Events | ||||||
| Men's keirin | Danny Clark | Daniel Morelon | Niels Fredborg | |||
| Men's sprint | Kōichi Nakano | Masahiko Ozaki (尾崎雅彦) | Daniel Morelon | |||
| Tony Doyle | Herman Ponsteen | Hans-Henrik Ørsted | ||||
| Men's points race | Stan Tourné | Giovanni Mantovani | Heinz Betz | |||
| Men's motor-paced | Wilfried Peffgen | René Kos | Bruno Vicino | |||
| Men's Amateur Events | ||||||
| Men's points race | Gary Sutton | Viktor Manakov | Josef Kristen | |||
| Men's motor-paced | Gaby Minneboo | Mattheus Pronk | Bartolome Caldentey | |||
| Men's tandem | Giorgio Rossi Floriano Finamore | |||||
| Women's Events | ||||||
| Women's sprint | Sue Novara | Galina Tsareva | Claudia Lommatzsch | |||
| Women's individual pursuit | Nadezhda Kibardina | Karen Strong | Petra De Bruin | |||