Cycling at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Venues
Road cycling Paris and surrounding area
Track cycling Vélodrome de Vincennes
Dates 23 July – 27 July
Cyclists 139 from 24 countries
Top ranked countries
France: 4 1st  0 2nd  2 3rd  
Netherlands: 1 1st  1 2nd  1 3rd  
Italy: 1 1st  0 2nd  0 3rd  
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The cycling competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.[1] The 50 km track event was held for the last time at these Games, having only been introduced in 1920.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual time trial
 Armand Blanchonnet (FRA)  Henri Hoevenaers (BEL)  René Hamel (FRA)
Team time trial
 France (FRA)
Armand Blanchonnet
René Hamel
Georges Wambst		  Belgium (BEL)
Henri Hoevenaers
Alphonse Parfondry
Jean van den Bosch		  Sweden (SWE)
Gunnar Sköld
Erik Bohlin
Ragnar Malm

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 km
 Ko Willems (NED)  Cyril Alden (GBR)  Harry Wyld (GBR)
Sprint
 Lucien Michard (FRA)  Jacob Meijer (NED)  Jean Cugnot (FRA)
Tandem
 Lucien Choury
and Jean Cugnot (FRA)		  Edmund Hansen
and Willy Hansen (DEN)		  Gerard Bosch van Drakestein
and Maurice Peeters (NED)
Team pursuit
 Italy (ITA)
Francesco Zucchetti
Angelo De Martini
Alfredo Dinale
Aurelio Menegazzi		  Poland (POL)
Tomasz Stankiewicz
Franciszek Szymczyk
Józef Lange
Jan Lazarski		  Belgium (BEL)
Jean van den Bosch
Léonard Daghelinckx
Henri Hoevenaers
Fernand Saive

Participating nations

Finish of the men's 50 kilometres

A total of 139 cyclists from 24 nations competed at the Paris Games:[1]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  France (FRA) 4 0 2 6
2  Netherlands (NED) 1 1 1 3
3  Italy (ITA) 1 0 0 1
4  Belgium (BEL) 0 2 1 3
5  Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 1 2
6  Denmark (DEN) 0 1 0 1
 Poland (POL) 0 1 0 1
8  Sweden (SWE) 0 0 1 1

References

  1. 1 2 "Cycling at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
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