Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

Men's individual road race at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Käpylä, Finland
Date	2 August 1952
Competitors	154 from 31 nations
Winning time	5:06:03.4
Medalists
André Noyelle   Belgium   Robert Grondelaers   Belgium   Edi Ziegler   Germany

The Men's Individual Road Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 2 August, the 2nd last day of the Olympics on an 11,2 km course running counter-clockwise from Käpylä through Pakila and Maunula and back to Käpylä. The course was circled seventeen times, so the total length of the competition was 190,4 km. About half of the road was hard-surfaced, the other half sand-surfaced.

There were 154 entries from 31 nations and 112 participants from 30 nations.^[1]

Results

Final Classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	TIME
	André Noyelle (BEL)	5:06:03.4
	Robert Grondelaers (BEL)	5:06:51.2
	Edi Ziegler (GER)	5:07:47.5
4.	Lucien Victor (BEL)	5:07:52.0
5.	Dino Bruni (ITA)	5:10:54.0
6.	Vincenzo Zucconelli (ITA)	5:11:16.5
7.	Gianni Ghidini (ITA)	5:11:16.8
8.	Oscar Zeissner (GER)	5:11:18.5
9.	Hans Andresen (DEN)	5:11:18.5
10.	Arend van 't Hoft (NED)	5:11:19.0
11.	André Moes (LUX)	5:11:19.0
12.	Jacques Anquetil (FRA)	5:11:19.0
13.	Alfred Tonello (FRA)	5:11:20.0
14.	Roger Ludwig (LUX)	5:11:20.0
15.	Bruno Monti (ITA)	5:11.35.0
16.	Yngve Lundh (SWE)	5:12:15.2
17.	Rolf Graf (SUI)	5:12:45.3
18.	Stig Mårtensson (SWE)	5:13:00.0
19.	Jørgen Frank Rasmussen (DEN)	5:14:09.4
20.	Josef Schraner (SUI)	5:15:06.1
21.	Allan Carlsson (SWE)	5:16:19.1
22.	Jan Plantaz (NED)	5:16:19.1
23.	Claude Rouer (FRA)	5:16:19.1
24.	Odd Berg (NOR)	5:17:30.2
25.	Erling Kristiansen (NOR)	5:17:30.2
26.	Desmond Robinson (GBR)	5:18:08.9
27.	Brian Robinson (GBR)	5:18:08.9
28.	Lorang Christiansen (NOR)	5:20:01.3
29.	Constantin Stănescu (ROU)	5:20:01.4
30.	Alois Lampert (LIE)	5:20:06.6
31.	Graham Vines (GBR)	5:22:33.2
32.	Donald Sheldon (USA)	5:22:33.3
33.	Virgilio Pereyra (URU)	5:22:33.4
34.	Peter Pryor (AUS)	5:22:33.5
35.	Jim Nevin (AUS)	5:22:33.6
36.	Thomas O'Rourke (USA)	5:22:33.7
37.	Wedell Østergaard (DEN)	5:22:34.1
38.	Luis Angel de los Santos (URU)	5:22:34.3
39.	Hugo Machado (URU)	5:23:33.7
40.	Yevgeny Klevtsov (URS)	5:23:34.0
41.	Marin Niculescu (ROU)	5:23:34.1
42.	Raino Koskenkorva (FIN)	5:23:34.6
43.	Ewald Hasler (LIE)	5:23:34.8
44.	Victor Georgescu (ROU)	5:24:27.5
45.	Ángel Romero (MEX)	5:24:33.9
46.	Petar Georgiev (BUL)	5:24:34.0
47.	Luu Quan (VIE)	5:24:34.1
48.	Paul Maue (GER)	5:24:44.5
49.	Adrie Voorting (NED)	5:24:44.6
50.	Fausto Lurati (SUI)	5:24:58.0
51.	Nicolas Morn (LUX)	5:26:25.0
52.	Helge Hansen (DEN)	5:27:08.8

Did not finish

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Australia (AUS) Ken Caves Peter Nelson  Austria (AUT) Walter Bortel Franz Wimmer Arthur Mannsbarth  Belgium (BEL) Rik Van Looy  Bulgaria (BUL) Boyan Kotsev Ilya Velchev Milcho Rosev  Chile (CHI) Hernán Masanés Héctor Droguett Héctor Mellado Hugo Miranda  Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jan Veselý Karel Nesl Milan Perič Stanislav Svoboda  Finland (FIN) Paul Backman Paul Nyman Ruben Forsblom  France (FRA) Roland Bezamat

Great Britain (GBR) Leslie Ingman  Hungary (HUN) István Lang István Schillerwein Lajos Látó  India (IND) Raj Kumar Mehra Netai Bysack Pradip Bode Suprovat Chakravarty  Japan (JPN) Kihei Tomioka Masazumi Tajima Tadashi Kato Tamotsu Chikanari  South Korea (KOR) Gwon Ik-Hyeon Im Sang-Jo Kim Ho-Sun  Luxembourg (LUX) Jean Schmit  Mexico (MEX) Francisco Lozano Julio Cepeda Ricardo García  Netherlands (NED) Jules Maenen

Pakistan (PAK) Muhammad Naqi Mallick Imtiaz Bhatti  Romania (ROU) Petre Nuță  South Africa (RSA) George Estman Alfred Swift Robert Fowler  Switzerland (SUI) Kobi Scherer  Sweden (SWE) Lars Nordwall  Soviet Union (URS) Anatoly Kolesov Nikolay Bobarenko Vladimir Kryuchkov  Uruguay (URU) Julio Sobrera  United States (USA) David Rhoads Ronald Rhoads  Vietnam (VIE) Chau Phuoc Vinh Nguyen Duc Hien Le Van Phuoc  Germany (GER) Walter Becker

See also

• Men's Team Road Race

References

1. "Cycling: Men's individual road race". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-12-29.

Notes

• Kolkka, Sulo, ed. (1952). The Official Report of The Organising Committee For The Games Of The XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. Helsinki: The Organising Committee For The XV Olympiad.