Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Road cycling | Satellite Circuit | ||||||
Track cycling | Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome | ||||||
Dates | 15 October – 21 October | ||||||
Cyclists | 329 from 52 countries | ||||||
Top ranked countries | |||||||
France: | 4 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Denmark: | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||
Italy: | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
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The cycling competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]
Contents
Medal summary
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race |
Pierfranco Vianelli (ITA) | Leif Mortensen (DEN) | Gösta Pettersson (SWE) |
Team time trial |
Netherlands (NED) Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen |
Sweden (SWE) Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson |
Italy (ITA) Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti |
Track cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1000m time trial |
Pierre Trentin (FRA) | Niels Fredborg (DEN) | Janusz Kierzkowski (POL) |
Pursuit, Individual |
Daniel Rebillard (FRA) | Mogens Jensen (DEN) | Xaver Kurmann (SUI) |
Pursuit, Team |
Denmark (DEN) Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen |
West Germany (FRG) Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner |
Italy (ITA) Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato |
Sprint |
Daniel Morelon (FRA) | Giurdano Turrini (ITA) | Pierre Trentin (FRA) |
Tandem |
Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin (FRA) |
Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Janssen (NED) |
Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker (BEL) |
Participating nations
329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | France | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
2 | Denmark | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
5 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |