Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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| Road cycling | Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia |
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| Track cycling | Olympic Velodrome | ||||||
| Dates | 26 August – 29 August | ||||||
| Cyclists | 297 from 48 countries | ||||||
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 Germany: |
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The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.[1] The event was marked by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race |
Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union |
Livio Trapè Italy |
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| Time trial, team |
Italy (ITA) Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni |
Germany (EUA) Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke |
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov |
Track cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Pursuit, team |
Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto |
Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme |
Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin |
| Sprint |
Sante Gaiardoni Italy |
Leo Sterckx Belgium |
Valentino Gasparella Italy |
| Tandem |
Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto Italy |
Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber Germany |
Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev Soviet Union |
| 1000m time trial |
Sante Gaiardoni Italy |
Dieter Gieseler Germany |
Rostislav Vargashkin Soviet Union |
Participating nations
297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Italy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Germany | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
References
- 1 2 "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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