Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venues
Road cycling Artesia Freeway, Streets of Mission Viejo
Track cycling Olympic Velodrome
Dates July 29 - August 3
Cyclists 359 from 54 countries
Top ranked countries
 United States: 4 1st, gold medalist(s)  3 2nd, silver medalist(s)  2 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
 West Germany: 1 1st, gold medalist(s)  2 2nd, silver medalist(s)  2 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
 Australia: 1 1st, gold medalist(s)  0 2nd, silver medalist(s)  0 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
« 1980 1988 »

The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program, with a single event, the individual road race. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.[1]

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
Alexi Grewal
 United States
Steve Bauer
 Canada
Dag Otto Lauritzen
 Norway
Men's team time trial
 Italy (ITA)
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
 Switzerland (SUI)
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
 United States (USA)
Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
Women's road race
Connie Carpenter
 United States
Rebecca Twigg
 United States
Sandra Schumacher
 West Germany

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
Roger Ilegems
 Belgium
Uwe Messerschmidt
 West Germany
José Youshimatz
 Mexico
Pursuit, Individual
Steve Hegg
 United States
Rolf Gölz
 West Germany
Leonard Nitz
 United States
Pursuit, Team
 Australia (AUS)
Michael Grenda
Kevin Nichols
Michael Turtur
Dean Woods
 United States (USA)
David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Nitz
Brent Emery
 West Germany (FRG)
Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Sprint
Mark Gorski
 United States
Nelson Vails
 United States
Tsutomu Sakamoto
 Japan
1 km time trial
Fredy Schmidtke
 West Germany
Curt Harnett
 Canada
Fabrice Colas
 France

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States4329
2 West Germany1225
3 Australia1001
 Belgium1001
 Italy1001
6 Canada0202
7 Switzerland0101
8 France0011
 Japan0011
 Mexico0011
 Norway0011
Totals (11 nations)88824


See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cycling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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