Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Appearance
Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |
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Radstadion | |
Venues | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion |
Date | 29 August – 4 September 1972 |
Competitors | 359 from 54 nations |
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[edit]
Road cycling[edit]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race |
Hennie Kuiper |
Clyde Sefton |
no medal awarded [2] |
Team time trial |
Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov |
Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda |
no medal awarded [3] |
Track cycling[edit]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual pursuit |
Knut Knudsen |
Xaver Kurmann |
Hans Lutz |
Team pursuit |
Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel |
Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter |
William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble |
Sprint |
Daniel Morelon |
John Nicholson |
Omar Pkhakadze |
Tandem |
Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov |
Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto |
Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot |
Time trial |
Niels Fredborg |
Danny Clark |
Jürgen Schütze |
Participating nations[edit]
359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table[edit]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ 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.
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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.