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

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

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	TIME
	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

Australia (AUS)

Austria (AUT)

Belgium (BEL)

Rik Van Looy

Bulgaria (BUL)

Boyan Kotsev
Ilya Velchev
Milcho Rosev

Chile (CHI)

Czechoslovakia (TCH)

Finland (FIN)

Paul Backman
Paul Nyman
Ruben Forsblom

France (FRA)

Roland Bezamat

Great Britain (GBR)

Leslie Ingman

Hungary (HUN)

India (IND)

Japan (JPN)

South Korea (KOR)

Gwon Ik-Hyeon
Im Sang-Jo
Kim Ho-Sun

Luxembourg (LUX)

Jean Schmit

Mexico (MEX)

Netherlands (NED)

Jules Maenen

Pakistan (PAK)

Romania (ROU)

Petre Nuță

South Africa (RSA)

Switzerland (SUI)

Kobi Scherer

Sweden (SWE)

Lars Nordwall

Soviet Union (URS)

Uruguay (URU)

Julio Sobrera

United States (USA)

Vietnam (VIE)

Chau Phuoc Vinh
Nguyen Duc Hien
Le Van Phuoc

Germany (GER)

Walter Becker

References

"Cycling: Men's individual road race". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2012.

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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