Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

Men's individual road race
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue Käpylä, Finland
Date 2 August 1952
Competitors 154 from 31 nations
Winning time 5:06:03.4
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) André Noyelle  Belgium
2nd, silver medalist(s) Robert Grondelaers  Belgium
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Edi Ziegler  Germany

The Men's Individual Road Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 2 August, the 2nd last day of the Olympics on an 11,2 km course running counter-clockwise from Käpylä through Pakila and Maunula and back to Käpylä. The course was circled seventeen times, so the total length of the competition was 190,4 km. About half of the road was hard-surfaced, the other half sand-surfaced.

There were 154 entries from 31 nations and 112 participants from 30 nations.[1]

Results

Final Classification

RANKNAME ATHLETETIME
 André Noyelle (BEL) 5:06:03.4
 Robert Grondelaers (BEL) 5:06:51.2
 Edi Ziegler (GER) 5:07:47.5
4.  Lucien Victor (BEL) 5:07:52.0
5.  Dino Bruni (ITA) 5:10:54.0
6.  Vincenzo Zucconelli (ITA) 5:11:16.5
7.  Gianni Ghidini (ITA) 5:11:16.8
8.  Oskar Zeissner (GER) 5:11:18.5
9.  Hans Andresen (DEN) 5:11:18.5
10.  Arend van 't Hoft (NED) 5:11:19.0
11.  André Moes (LUX) 5:11:19.0
12.  Jacques Anquetil (FRA) 5:11:19.0
13.  Alfred Tonello (FRA) 5:11:20.0
14.  Roger Ludwig (LUX) 5:11:20.0
15.  Bruno Monti (ITA) 5:11.35.0
16.  Yngve Lundh (SWE) 5:12:15.2
17.  Rolf Graf (SUI) 5:12:45.3
18.  Stig Mårtensson (SWE) 5:13:00.0
19.  Jørgen Frank Rasmussen (DEN) 5:14:09.4
20.  Josef Schraner (SUI) 5:15:06.1
21.  Allan Carlsson (SWE) 5:16:19.1
22.  Jan Plantaz (NED) 5:16:19.1
23.  Claude Rouer (FRA) 5:16:19.1
24.  Odd Berg (NOR) 5:17:30.2
25.  Erling Kristiansen (NOR) 5:17:30.2
26.  Desmond Robinson (GBR) 5:18:08.9
27.  Brian Robinson (GBR) 5:18:08.9
28.  Lorang Christiansen (NOR) 5:20:01.3
29.  Constantin Stănescu (ROU) 5:20:01.4
30.  Alois Lampert (LIE) 5:20:06.6
31.  Graham Vines (GBR) 5:22:33.2
32.  Donald Sheldon (USA) 5:22:33.3
33.  Virgilio Pereyra (URU) 5:22:33.4
34.  Peter Pryor (AUS) 5:22:33.5
35.  Jim Nevin (AUS) 5:22:33.6
36.  Thomas O'Rourke (USA) 5:22:33.7
37.  Wedell Østergaard (DEN) 5:22:34.1
38.  Luis Angel de los Santos (URU) 5:22:34.3
39.  Hugo Machado (URU) 5:23:33.7
40.  Yevgeny Klevtsov (URS) 5:23:34.0
41.  Marin Niculescu (ROU) 5:23:34.1
42.  Raino Koskenkorva (FIN) 5:23:34.6
43.  Ewald Hasler (LIE) 5:23:34.8
44.  Victor Georgescu (ROU) 5:24:27.5
45.  Ángel Romero (MEX) 5:24:33.9
46.  Petar Georgiev (BUL) 5:24:34.0
47.  Luu Quan (VIE) 5:24:34.1
48.  Paul Maue (GER) 5:24:44.5
49.  Adrie Voorting (NED) 5:24:44.6
50.  Fausto Lurati (SUI) 5:24:58.0
51.  Nicolas Morn (LUX) 5:26:25.0
52.  Helge Hansen (DEN) 5:27:08.8

Did not finish

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cycling: Men's individual road race". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-12-29.

Notes

  • Kolkka, Sulo, ed. (1952). The Official Report of The Organising Committee For The Games Of The XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952. Helsinki: The Organising Committee For The XV Olympiad. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015.
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