Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venues
Road cycling	Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia
Track cycling	Olympic Velodrome
Dates	26 August – 29 August
Cyclists	297 from 48 countries
Top ranked countries
Italy:			5	1	1
Soviet Union:			1	0	4
United Team of Germany:			0	4	0
« 1956	1964 »

The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The event was marked by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Viktor Kapitonov (URS)	Livio Trapè (ITA)	Willy van den Berghen (BEL)
Time trial, team	Italy (ITA) Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni	United Team of Germany (EUA) Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov

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Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1000m time trial	Sante Gaiardoni (ITA)	Dieter Gieseler (EUA)	Rostislav Vargashkin (URS)
Pursuit, team	Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin
Sprint	Sante Gaiardoni (ITA)	Leo Sterckx (BEL)	Valentino Gasparella (ITA)
Tandem	Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto (ITA)	Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber (EUA)	Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev (URS)

Participating nations

297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.

Argentina (8)  Australia (9)  Austria (8)  Belgium (13)  Brazil (1)  Bulgaria (5) 23x15px Canada (2)  Colombia (7)  Czechoslovakia (6)  Denmark (8) 23x15px Ethiopia (5)  Finland (4)

France (14)  Germany (14)  Great Britain (12)  Hungary (5)  Indonesia (4)  Iraq (2)  Ireland (5)  Israel (2)  Italy (14)  Japan (5) 23x15px Liechtenstein (1)  Luxembourg (6)

Malta (3)  Mexico (10)  Morocco (4)  Netherlands (13)  New Zealand (1)  Norway (1)  Pakistan (2)  Poland (5)  Portugal (4)  Romania (6)  San Marino (4) 23x15px South Korea (4)

23x15px South Africa (5)  Soviet Union (13) 23x15px Spain (9)  Ceylon (1)  Sweden (4)  Switzerland (14) 23x15px Tunisia (4)  United States (14)  Uruguay (5) 23x15px Venezuela (5)  British West Indies (1)  Yugoslavia (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	1	1	7
2	Soviet Union	1	0	4	5
3	United Team of Germany	0	4	0	4
4	Belgium	0	1	1	2

External links

• Official Olympic Report