Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
The Seoul Olympic Velodrome in 2008
Venues
Road cycling	Tongillo Road Course
Track cycling	Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Dates	8 September - 24 September
Cyclists	422 from 62 countries
Top ranked countries
Soviet Union:			4	1	2
East Germany:			3	2	1
Netherlands:			1	1	0
« 1984	1992 »

Cycling events at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men		women
Time trial		men
Points race		men

The cycling competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul consisted of two different categories: road cycling and track cycling. Nine events were contested, including the first women's sprint event at the Olympics.

Road cycling

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
road race	Olaf Ludwig (GDR)	Bernd Gröne (FRG)	Christian Henn (FRG)
team time trial	East Germany (GDR) Jan Schur Uwe Ampler Mario Kummer Maik Landsmann	Poland (POL) Andrzej Sypytkowski Joachim Halupczok Zenon Jaskuła Marek Lesniewski	Sweden (SWE) Michel Lafis Anders Jarl Björn Johansson Jan Karlsson

Women's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
road race	Monique Knol (NED)	Jutta Niehaus (FRG)	Laima Zilporite (URS)

Track cycling

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
points race	Dan Frost  Denmark	Leo Peelen  Netherlands	Marat Ganeyev  Soviet Union
individual pursuit	Gintautas Umaras  Soviet Union	Dean Woods  Australia	Bernd Dittert  East Germany
team pursuit	Soviet Union (URS) Viatcheslav Ekimov Artūras Kasputis Dmitry Nelyubin Gintautas Umaras	East Germany (GDR) Carsten Wolf Steffen Blochwitz Roland Hennig Dirk Meier	Australia (AUS) Scott McGrory Dean Woods Brett Dutton Wayne McCarney Stephen McGlede
sprint	Lutz Heßlich  East Germany	Nikolay Kovsh  Soviet Union	Gary Neiwand  Australia
1 km time trial	Aleksandr Kirichenko  Soviet Union	Martin Vinnicombe  Australia	Robert Lechner  West Germany

Women's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
sprint	Erika Salumäe (URS)	Christa Luding-Rothenburger (GDR)	Connie Young (USA)

Participating nations

422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.

Algeria (2)  Andorra (2)  Antigua and Barbuda (2)  Argentina (7)  Australia (17)  Austria (7)  Barbados (2)  Belgium (6) 23x15px Belize (5)  Bolivia (1)  Brazil (8)  Canada (11)  Cayman Islands (6)  China (9)  Chinese Taipei (2)  Colombia (7)

23x15px Democratic Republic of the Congo (4)  Czechoslovakia (13)  Denmark (9)  East Germany (17) 23x15px Ecuador (1)  Finland (4)  France (16)  Great Britain (17)  Guatemala (5)  Guyana (2) 23x15px Hong Kong (5)  Hungary (1)  Iran (7)  Ireland (5)  Italy (18)

Jamaica (3)  Japan (12)  Lebanon (2) 23x15px Libya (2)  Liechtenstein (3)  Malawi (4)  Malaysia (2)  Mexico (5)  Monaco (1)  Netherlands (13)  New Zealand (13)  Norway (5) 23x15px Philippines (3)  Poland (11)  Sierra Leone (1)  South Korea (15)

Soviet Union (18)  Spain (13)  Suriname (1)  Sweden (8)  Switzerland (9)  Trinidad and Tobago (2)  United Arab Emirates (6)  United States (19)  Virgin Islands (1)  Uruguay (3) 23x15px Venezuela (4)  Vietnam (1)  West Germany (15)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zimbabwe (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	1	2	7
2	East Germany	3	2	1	6
3	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
4	Denmark	1	0	0	1
5	Australia	0	2	2	4
	West Germany	0	2	2	4
7	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1

External links

• Official Report