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{{Infobox cycling championship
| image = 1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships logo.png
|     venue = [[Bordeaux]], [[France]] {{flagicon|France}}
|      date = August 26–30, 1998
| velodrome = [[Vélodrome de Bordeaux]]
|   nations = 32
|  cyclists =
|    events = 12
|  previous = [[1997 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Perth 1997]]
|      next = [[1999 UCI Track Cycling World Championships|Berlin 1999]]
|image_size=150}}

The '''1998 [[UCI Track Cycling World Championships]]''' were the World Championship for [[track cycling]]. They took place in [[Bordeaux]], [[France]] from August 26 to August 30, 1998. Twelve events were contested, eight for the men and four for the women. France dominated most of the events, taking home half of the gold medals on offer.

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = 
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 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_FRA = 6 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 2
 | gold_ESP = 2 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 0
 | gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 3 | bronze_GER = 4
 | gold_AUS = 1 | silver_AUS = 3 | bronze_AUS = 1
 | gold_BEL = 1 | silver_BEL = 0 | bronze_BEL = 0
 | gold_UKR = 1 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 0
 | gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 2
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 1 | bronze_CAN = 1
 | gold_LAT = 0 | silver_LAT = 1 | bronze_LAT = 0
 | gold_MEX = 0 | silver_MEX = 1 | bronze_MEX = 0
 | gold_NED = 0 | silver_NED = 1 | bronze_NED = 0
 | gold_RUS = 0 | silver_RUS = 0 | bronze_RUS = 1
 | gold_USA = 0 | silver_USA = 0 | bronze_USA = 1
}}

==Medal summary==
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
 |- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=7 | '''Men's Events'''
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's sprint|Men's sprint]] <br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's sprint}}
|'''[[Florian Rousseau]]'''<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||
|[[Jens Fiedler (cyclist)|Jens Fiedler]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}||
|[[Laurent Gané]]<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||
|-
|{{nowrap|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial|Men's 1 km time trial]]}}<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial}}
|'''[[Arnaud Tournant]]'''<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}} ||1:01.879
|[[Shane Kelly]]<br>{{small|{{AUS}}}} ||1:02.261
|[[Erin Hartwell]]<br>{{small|{{USA}}}} ||1:02.637
|-
|{{nowrap|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit|Men's individual pursuit]]}}<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's individual pursuit}}
|'''[[Philippe Ermenault]]'''<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}} ||4:20.627
|[[Francis Moreau]]<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||4:21.466
|[[Robert Bartko]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}||4:26.890
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit|Men's team pursuit]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team pursuit}}
|'''[[Alexander Symonenko]]<br>[[Sergiy Matveyev]]<br>[[Oleksandr Fedenko]]<br>[[Oleksandr Klymenko (cyclist)|Oleksandr Klymenko]]'''<br>{{small|{{UKR}}}}||4:02.895
|[[Christian Lademann]]<br>[[Daniel Becke]]<br>[[Robert Bartko]]<br>[[Guido Fulst]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}||4:08.160
|[[Andrea Collinelli]]<br>[[Adler Capelli]]<br>[[Cristiano Citton]]<br>[[Mario Benetton]]<br>{{small|{{ITA}}}}||
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team sprint|Men's team sprint]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's team sprint}}
|'''[[Vincent Le Quellec]]<br>[[Florian Rousseau]]<br>[[Arnaud Tournant]]'''<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||44.338
|[[Danny Day]]<br>[[Shane Kelly]]<br>[[Graham Sharman (cyclist)|Graham Sharman]]<br>{{small|{{AUS}}}}||45.464
|[[Sören Lausberg]]<br>[[Stefan Nimke]]<br>[[Eyk Pokorny]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}|| 45.210
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin|Men's keirin]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's keirin}}
|'''[[Jens Fiedler (cyclist)|Jens Fiedler]]'''<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}||
|[[Ainārs Ķiksis]]<br>{{small|{{LAT}}}}||
|[[Laurent Gané]]<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's points race|Men's points race]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's points race}}
|'''[[Joan Llaneras]]'''<br>{{small|{{ESP}}}}||
|[[Andreas Kappes]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}||
|[[Silvio Martinello]]<br>{{small|{{ITA}}}}||
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's madison|Men's madison]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's madison}}
|'''[[Etienne De Wilde]]'''<br>'''[[Matthew Gilmore]]'''<br>{{small|{{BEL}}}}||
|[[Silvio Martinello]]<br>[[Andrea Collinelli]]<br>{{small|{{ITA}}}}||
|[[Andreas Kappes]]<br>[[Stefan Steinweg]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}||
|- bgcolor="#cccccc"
| colspan=7 | '''Women's Events'''
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's sprint|Women's sprint]] <br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's sprint}}
|'''[[Félicia Ballanger]]'''<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||
|[[Michelle Ferris]]<br>{{small|{{AUS}}}}||
|[[Tanya Dubnicoff]]<br>{{small|{{CAN}}}}||
|-
|{{nowrap|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's 500 m time trial|Women's 500 m time trial]]}}<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's 500 m time trial}}
|'''[[Félicia Ballanger]]'''<br>{{small|{{FRA}}}}||34.010<br>''W.R.''
|[[Tanya Dubnicoff]]<br>{{small|{{CAN}}}}||35.415
|[[Michelle Ferris]]<br>{{small|{{AUS}}}}||35.451
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's individual pursuit|Women's individual pursuit]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's individual pursuit}}
|'''[[Lucy Tyler-Sharman]]'''<br>{{small|{{AUS}}}}|| 3:35.255
|[[Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel]]<br>{{small|{{NED}}}}|| 3:27.291
|[[Judith Arndt]]<br>{{small|{{GER}}}}|| 3:35.676
|-
|[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race|Women's points race]]<br>{{DetailsLink|1998 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's points race}}
|'''[[Teodora Ruano]]'''<br>{{small|{{ESP}}}}||
|[[Belem Guerrero]]<br>{{small|{{MEX}}}}||
|[[Olga Slioussareva]]<br>{{small|{{RUS}}}}||
|-
|}

==External links==
*[http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/1998/aug98/worldtrack981.html 1998 World Cycling Track Championships Bordeaux, France, August 26-30, 1998] cyclingnews.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110722083639/http://oldsite.uci.ch/english/track/worlds_mondiale/wchamps_98/worlds_index_98.htm 1998 results on the UCI website]

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