The 1981 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the seventh annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Grimma, Leipzig, West Germany in August 1981.^[1]

The Championships had five events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit and 1 kilometre time trial.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Events
Sprint[1] details	Olaf Arndt  East Germany	P. Rampazzo  Italy	Bruno Bannes  France
Points race details[1]	Fabio Lana  Italy	Mat Lange  West Germany	Kenneth Bering  Denmark
Individual pursuit details [1]	Reinhard Alber  West Germany	Marat Ganeyev  Soviet Union	Martin Palis  Soviet Union
Kilo details[1]	Marcelo Alexandre  Argentina	Dirk Streicher  East Germany	Stefano Baudino  Italy
Team pursuit details[1]	Soviet Union Dainis Grantinch Martin Palis Marat Ganeyev Yuri Kasakov	East Germany Frank Siggelkowe Carsten Wolf Steven Planitzer Thomas Raddatz	France Pascal Carrara Bruno Wojtinek Christian Noiret Dominique Lecrocq

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	1	2	0	3
2	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	1	3
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	0	2
5	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
6	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
7	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		5	5	5	15

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