1962 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 1962 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Milan, Italy from 24 to 28 August 1962.[1] Nine events were contested, 7 for men (3 for professionals, 4 for amateurs) and 2 for women.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Professional Events
Men's sprint	Antonio Maspes Italy	Sante Gaiardoni Italy	Oscar Plattner Switzerland
Men's individual pursuit	Henk Nijdam Netherlands	Leandro Faggin Italy	Peter Post Netherlands
Men's motor-paced	Guillermo Timoner Spain	Paul Depaepe Belgium	Leo Wickihalder Switzerland
Men's Amateur Events
Men's sprint	Sergio Bianchetto Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto Italy	Pierre Trentin France
Men's individual pursuit	Kaj Jensen Denmark	Herman Van Loo Belgium	Jaap Oudkerk Netherlands
Men's team pursuit	West Germany Ehrenfried Rudolph Bernd Rohr Klaus May Lothar Claesges	Denmark Deut Hansen Preben Isaksson Kaj E. Jensen Kurt Vid-Stein	Soviet Union Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin Viktor Romanov
Men's motor-paced	Romain De Loof Belgium	Hans Lauppi Switzerland	Christian Giscos France
Women's Events
Women's sprint	Valentina Savina Soviet Union	Irina Kirichenko Soviet Union	Jean Dunn Great Britain
Women's individual pursuit	Beryl Burton Great Britain	Yvonne Reynders Belgium	Lidiya Tikhomirova Soviet Union


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	2	3	0	5
2	Belgium (BEL)	1	3	0	4
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	2	4
4	Denmark (DEN)	1	1	0	2
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	2	3
6	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
7	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
7	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	0	1
9	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	2	3
10	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (10 nations)		9	9	9	27

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