| Venue: | Zürich, Switzerland  |
| Date: | 1983 |
| Velodrome: | Oerlikon Velodrome |
| Events: | 14 |
| Previous: | Leicester 1982 |
| Next: | Barcelona 1984 |
The 1983 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Zürich, Switzerland in 1983.[1] Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 2 for women.
| Men's Professional Events | ||||||
| Men's keirin | Urs Freuler | Danny Clark | Gilbert Hatton | |||
| Men's sprint | Kōichi Nakano | Yavé Cahard | Ottavio Dazzan | |||
| Steele Bishop | Robert Dill-Bundi | Hans-Henrik Ørsted | ||||
| Men's points race | Urs Freuler | Guido Bontempi | Gary Sutton | |||
| Men's motor-paced | Bruno Vicino | René Koos | Martin Havik | |||
| Men's Amateur Events | ||||||
| Sergei Kopylov | Gerhard Scheller | Lothar Thoms | ||||
| Men's sprint | Lutz Hesslich | Sergei Kopylov | Michael Hübner | |||
| Viktor Kupovets | Bernd Dittert | Dainis Liepiņš | ||||
| Men's team pursuit | Pavel Soukup Aleš Trčka František Raboň Robert Štěrba | |||||
| Men's points race | Michael Marcussen | Hans-Joachim Pohl | Ivan Romanov | |||
| Men's motor-paced | Rainer Podlesch | Mattheus Pronk | Walter Baumgartner | |||
| Men's tandem | Dieter Giebken Fredy Schmidtke[2] [3] | |||||
| Women's Events | ||||||
| Women's sprint | Connie Paraskevin | Claudia Lommatzsch | Isabelle Nicoloso | |||
| Women's individual pursuit | Connie Carpenter | Cynthia Olavarri | Jeannie Longo | |||