Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Olympic rings without rims.svg
Venues
Road cycling Satellite Circuit
Track cycling Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome
Dates 15 October – 21 October
Cyclists 329 from 52 countries
Top ranked countries
 France: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Denmark: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Italy: 1st  2nd  3rd  
« 1964 1972 »

The cycling competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
details
 Pierfranco Vianelli (ITA)  Leif Mortensen (DEN)  Gösta Pettersson (SWE)
Team time trial
details
 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
1000m time trial
details
 Pierre Trentin (FRA)  Niels Fredborg (DEN)  Janusz Kierzkowski (POL)
Pursuit, Individual
details
 Daniel Rebillard (FRA)  Mogens Jensen (DEN)  Xaver Kurmann (SUI)
Pursuit, Team
details
 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
details
 Daniel Morelon (FRA)  Giurdano Turrini (ITA)  Pierre Trentin (FRA)
Tandem
details
 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]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
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

References

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