Netherlands at the 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
| Netherlands at the 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships | |||||||||
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| IOC code | NED | ||||||||
| in Brno, Czechoslovakia | |||||||||
| Competitors | 24 (20 men and 4 women) in 14 events | ||||||||
| Medals Ranked 3rd |
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| UCI Track Cycling World Championships appearances (overview) | |||||||||
| See Netherlands at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships | |||||||||
The Netherlands competed at the 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1981. The event consisted of 14 disciplines for professional and amateur men and women. The Netherlands sent a team of 4 women, 13 amateur men and 7 professional men cyclists. With 2 gold and one bronze medal, the Netherlands finished third in the medal table.
List of medalists
| Medal | Name | Event |
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 Gold | Mattheus Pronk | Men's amateur motor-paced |
| Gold | René Koos | Men's motor-paced |
 Bronze | Bert Oosterbosch | Men's individual pursuit |
Source[1]
Entrants
The next riders were selected by the KNWU after the Dutch national championships and were published on 10 August 1981.
- Coach Frans Mahn[2] For the men's motor paced Martin Rietveld was relaced by Fred Rompelberg. From the five selected riders for the men's team pursuit Peter Pieters was not selected by the coach after his bad performance in the individual pursuit.
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Results
- Men's amateur points race
- Peter Pieters - DNF [4]
- Men's amateur 1 km time trial
- Rainier Valkenburg - 12th in 1:09.13[5] (9th?)
- Men's amateur sprint
- Reinier Valkenburg - 1st round won (
Isler), lost 2nd round (
Goelasjvili), lost 2nd round repaches (
Platek) - Sjaak Pieters - 1st round lost, 1st round repaches lost
- Tom Vrolijk - 1st round lost, 1st round repaches lost
- Men's Keirin
- Hans Vonk - 1st round did not advance, 1st round repaches did not advance
- Men's amateur team pursuit
- Qualification Ab Harren, Rik Moorman, John Roozenburg, Ab van Asten in 4:39.56 (did not qualify)
- Men's amateur tandem
- Tom Vrolijk/Peter Pieters - Won 1st round (vs. Poland) (qualified for semi final) - Semi final
- Men's individual pursuit
- Roy Schuiten - 2nd in 6:03.42 (qualified for semi final) - Lost semi final - Lost semi final - Lost bronze medal race (vs. Bert Oosterbosch)
- Herman Ponsteen - Qualification in 6:09.46 (did not qualify for quarter finals)
- Bert Oosterbosch - 3rd in 6:06.87 (qualified for semi finals) - Won semi final - Won bronze medal race (vs. Roy Schuiten)
- Men's amateur individual pursuit
The Dutch men Ad van Asten and national champion Peter Pieters finished disappointingly 29th and 35th. Their times were about 5 seconds slower as during the national championships in Nijmegen.
- Ad van Asten - 29th in qualification (did not qualify for next round)
- Peter Pieters - 35th in qualification (did not qualify for next round)
- Men's motor-paced
- Martin Venix - Won qualification (qualified for final)
- René Kos - Qualification (qualified for final) - in final
- Fred Rompelberg - Qualification (did not qualify for final) -
- Men's amateur motor-paced
Both Mathé Pronk and Gaby Minneboo qualified with a second place in the 1st round directly for the final, respectively behind Podlesch from East Germany and Fusarpoli from Italy. Coach Stam was not totally statisfied as Ger Slot and Eric Geserick did not qualify. Minneboo tried to help Slot, but Slot was not good enough. Also the motor of his pacer Van Duivenbode damaged during the race and leaked oil. Just after the start a foot of Geserick came out of his toeclip, and couldn't ride thereafter his qualification well.
- Gaby Minneboo - 2nd in 1st round (qualified for final) - 7th in final
- Marthé Pronk - 2nd in 1st round (qualified for final) - in final (stayer Noppie Koch)
- Eric Geserick - 1st round (did not qualify) - 5th in 1st round repechages heat 1 (did not qualify)
- Ger Slot - 1st round (did not qualify) - 1st in 1st round repechages heat 2 (qualified) (stayer Koch van Pronk) - Disqualified in final (stayer Van Duivenbode)
- Women's sprint
- Erica Oomen - Won qualification, (vs.
Hana Hotova & 
Conny Paraskevin) (qualified) - Lost 2nd round (vs. Sheila Young) (did not qualify) - Lost 2nd round repechages (vs. 
Sue Novarra) (did not qualify) - Sandra de Neef - Lost qualification, (vs. ) (did not qualify for next round)
- Women's individual pursuit
- Petra de Bruin - 9th in qualification (did not qualify)
- Monique Kauffmann - Qualification 4:02.17 (qualified for quarter finals) - Lost quarter finals from Nedegeda Kibardina 4:07.31 vs. 3:56.71
See also
References
- ↑ World Championship Track Cycling 2014-1893
- ↑ Baanploeg voor WK wielrennen Leidse Courant, 10 August 1981 (Dutch)
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