The World Track Cycling Championship of 1968 , which was held from August 22 to 27, was first held separately for professionals and amateurs. Professionals competed from August 26 to 29, 1968 in Rome , Italy, and amateurs - in November in Montevideo , Uruguay. In total, 11 sets of awards were played - 9 for men and 2 for women.
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Medalists
Men
Professionals
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sprint | Giuseppe Begetto | Patrick Serku | Giovanni Pettenella |
| Individual Pursuit | Hugh porter | Ole ritter | Leandro Fagin |
| Leader Race | Leo Proust | Pete de wit | Ehrenfried Rudolph |
Lovers
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sprint | Luigi Borgetti | Nils fredborg | Robert Van Lanker |
| 1000 m | Nils fredborg | Jack simes | Gianni Sartori |
| Individual Pursuit | Mogens frey | Xavier Kurman | Lorenzo Bosisio |
| Team Race Retake | Italy Cipriano Kemello Lorenzo Bosisio Giorgio Morbiato Luigi Roncaglia | Argentina Carlos Alvarez Seibanes Juan Alves Gordon Ernesto Contreras Vazquez Juan Alberto Merlos Toledo | Sweden Eric Pettersson Thomas Pettersson Josta Pettersson Joseph Ripfel |
| Tandem Sprint | Italy Giordano Turrini Walter Gorini | Belgium Daniel Goens Robert Van Lanker | Japan Sanji inoue Takao Madameme |
| Leader Race | Giuseppe Grassi | Sees Stam | Benny Herger |
Women
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sprint | Alla Bagiyants | Irina Kirichenko | Galina Vasilyeva |
| Individual Pursuit | Raisa Obodovskaya | Beryl Burton | Keti van Oosten-Gache |
Overall medal standings
| A place | A country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | Italy | five | 0 | four | 9 |
| 2 | the USSR | 2 | one | one | four |
| 3 | Denmark | 2 | one | 0 | 3 |
| four | Belgium | one | 2 | one | four |
| five | Great Britain | one | one | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 0 | 3 | one | four |
| 7 | Switzerland | 0 | one | one | 2 |
| eight | USA | 0 | one | 0 | one |
| Argentina | 0 | one | 0 | one | |
| ten | Germany | 0 | 0 | one | one |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | one | one | |
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | one | one | |
| Total | eleven | eleven | eleven | 33 |