Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XX Olympiad

Radstadion
Venues
Road cycling Grünwald
Bundesautobahn 96
Track cycling Radstadion
Dates 29 August – 4 September
Cyclists 359 from 54 countries
Top ranked countries
Soviet Union: 2 1st  0 2nd  1 3rd  
West Germany: 1 1st  0 2nd  1 3rd  
Denmark: 1 1st  0 2nd  0 3rd  
France: 1 1st  0 2nd  0 3rd  
Netherlands: 1 1st  0 2nd  0 3rd  
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The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
 Hennie Kuiper
 Netherlands		 Clyde Sefton
 Australia		 no medal awarded [2]
Team time trial
  Soviet Union (URS)
Valery Yardy
Gennady Komnatov
Valery Likhachov
Boris Shukov		  Poland (POL)
Ryszard Szurkowski
Edward Barcik
Lucjan Lis
Stanisław Szozda		 no medal awarded [3]

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual pursuit
 Knut Knudsen
 Norway		 Xaver Kurmann
 Switzerland		 Hans Lutz
 West Germany
Team pursuit
  West Germany (FRG)
Günther Schumacher
Jürgen Colombo
Günter Haritz
Udo Hempel		  East Germany (GDR)
Uwe Unterwalder
Thomas Huschke
Heinz Richter
Herbert Richter		  Great Britain (GBR)
William Moore
Michael Bennett
Ian Hallam
Ronald Keeble
Sprint
 Daniel Morelon
 France		 John Nicholson
 Australia		 Omar Pkhakadze
 Soviet Union
Tandem
 Vladimir Semenets
and Igor Tselovalnykov
 Soviet Union		 Jürgen Geschke
and Werner Otto
 East Germany		 Andrzej Bek
and Benedykt Kocot
 Poland
1000m time trial
 Niels Fredborg
 Denmark		 Danny Clark
 Australia		 Jürgen Schütze
 East Germany

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union 2 0 1 3
2 West Germany 1 0 1 2
3 Denmark 1 0 0 1
France 1 0 0 1
Netherlands 1 0 0 1
Norway 1 0 0 1
7 Australia 0 3 0 3
8 East Germany 0 2 1 3
9 Poland 0 1 1 2
10 Switzerland 0 1 0 1
11 Great Britain 0 0 1 1

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Cycling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Jaime Huelamo
     Spain was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle
     New Zealand was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs.
  3. ↑ Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.

References

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