Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Venues | Satellite Circuit Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome |
Date | 15 –21 October 1968 |
Competitors | 329 from 52 nations |
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
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race details | Pierfranco Vianelli Italy | Leif Mortensen Denmark | Gösta Pettersson Sweden |
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
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pursuit, Individual details | Daniel Rebillard France | Mogens Jensen Denmark | Xaver Kurmann Switzerland |
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 France | Giurdano Turrini Italy | Pierre Trentin France |
Tandem details | Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin (FRA) | Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Jansen (NED) | Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker (BEL) |
Time trial details | Pierre Trentin France | Niels Fredborg Denmark | Janusz Kierzkowski Poland |
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 | 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 | |
Totals (9 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
References
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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Events at the 1968 Summer Olympics (Mexico City)
- Athletics
- Basketball
- Basque pelota (demonstration)
- Boxing
- Canoeing
- Cycling
- Diving
- Equestrian
- Fencing
- Field hockey
- Football
- Gymnastics
- Modern pentathlon
- Rowing
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Swimming
- Tennis (demonstration)
- Volleyball
- Water polo
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling