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 | ||||||
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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]
Medal summary
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race |
Pierfranco Vianelli |
Leif Mortensen |
Gösta Pettersson |
Team time trial |
Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen |
Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson |
Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti |
Track cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pursuit, Individual |
Daniel Rebillard |
Mogens Jensen |
Xaver Kurmann |
Pursuit, Team |
Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen |
Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner |
Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato |
Sprint |
Daniel Morelon |
Giurdano Turrini |
Pierre Trentin |
Tandem |
Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin |
Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Janssen |
Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker |
1000m time trial |
Pierre Trentin |
Niels Fredborg |
Janusz Kierzkowski |
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 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (9 nations) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
References
- 1 2 "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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