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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.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Elite Events
Men's keirin details	Danny Clark Australia	Daniel Morelon France	Niels Fredborg Denmark
Men's sprint details	Kōichi Nakano Japan	Masahiko Ozaki (尾崎雅彦) Japan	Daniel Morelon France
Men's individual pursuit details	Tony Doyle Great Britain	Herman Ponsteen Netherlands	Hans-Henrik Ørsted Denmark
Men's points race details	Stan Tourné Belgium	Giovanni Mantovani Italy	Heinz Betz West Germany
Men's motor-paced details	Wilfried Peffgen West Germany	René Kos Netherlands	Bruno Vicino Italy
Men's Amateur Events
Men's points race details	Gary Sutton Australia	Viktor Manakov Soviet Union	Josef Kristen West Germany
Men's motor-paced details	Gaby Minneboo Netherlands	Mattheus Pronk Netherlands	Bartolome Caldentey Spain
Men's tandem details	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kučírek Pavel Martinek	France Yvon Cloarec Franck Depine	Italy Giorgio Rossi Floriano Finamore
Women's Events
Women's sprint details	Sue Novara United States	Galina Tsareva Soviet Union	Claudia Lommatzsch West Germany
Women's individual pursuit details	Nadezhda Kibardina Soviet Union	Karen Strong Canada	Petra De Bruin Netherlands


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	3	1	5
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	0	3
4	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	3	4
6	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
10	France (FRA)	0	2	1	3
11	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
12	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
13	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
14	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		10	10	10	30