Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Olympic rings without rims.svg
Venues
Road cycling Artesia Freeway
Track cycling Olympic Velodrome
Dates July 29 - August 3
Cyclists 359 from 54 countries
Top ranked countries
 United States: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 West Germany: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Australia: 1st  2nd  3rd  
« 1980 1988 »
Cycling events at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Cycling (road) pictogram.svg
Road race   men   women
Team time trial men
Track cycling
Cycling (track) pictogram.svg
Individual pursuit men
Team pursuit men
Sprint men
Time trial men
Points race men

The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program, with a single event, the individual road race. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.[1]

The American cyclist Pat McDonough later admitted to blood doping at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.[2] Following the games it was revealed that one-third of the U.S. cycling team had received blood transfusions before the games.[2] Blood doping was banned by the International Olympic Committee in 1985, though no test existed for it at the time.[2]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Individual road race
details
 Alexi Grewal (USA)  Steve Bauer (CAN)  Dag Otto Lauritzen (NOR)
Women's Individual road race
details
 Connie Carpenter (USA)  Rebecca Twigg (USA)  Sandra Schumacher (FRG)
Men's team time trial
details
 Italy (ITA)
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
 Switzerland (SUI)
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
 United States (USA)
Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
details
Roger Ilegems
 Belgium
Uwe Messerschmidt
 West Germany
José Youshimatz
 Mexico
Pursuit, Individual
details
Steve Hegg
 United States
Rolf Gölz
 West Germany
Leonard Nitz
 United States
Pursuit, Team
details
 Australia (AUS)
Michael Grenda
Kevin Nichols
Michael Turtur
Dean Woods
 United States (USA)
David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Nitz
Brent Emery
 West Germany (FRG)
Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Sprint
details
Mark Gorski
 United States
Nelson Vails
 United States
Tsutomu Sakamoto
 Japan
1 km time trial
details
Fredy Schmidtke
 West Germany
Curt Harnett
 Canada
Fabrice Colas
 France

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States 4 3 2 9
2  West Germany 1 2 2 5
3  Australia 1 0 0 1
 Belgium 1 0 0 1
 Italy 1 0 0 1
6  Canada 0 2 0 2
7  Switzerland 0 1 0 1
8  France 0 0 1 1
 Japan 0 0 1 1
 Mexico 0 0 1 1
 Norway 0 0 1 1

See also

References

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