Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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| Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad |
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 Radstadion |
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| Road cycling | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 |
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| Track cycling | Radstadion | ||||||
| Dates | 29 August – 4 September | ||||||
| Cyclists | 359 from 54 countries | ||||||
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 Soviet Union: |
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 West Germany: |
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 Denmark: |
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 France: |
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 Netherlands: |
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The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]
Contents
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race |
 Hennie Kuiper (NED) |
 Clyde Sefton (AUS) |
no medal awarded [2] |
| Team time trial |
 Soviet Union (URS)Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov |
 Poland (POL)Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda |
no medal awarded [3] |
Track cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000m time trial |
 Niels Fredborg (DEN) |
Danny Clark (AUS) |
 Jürgen Schütze (GDR) |
| Individual pursuit |
 Knut Knudsen (NOR) |
 Xaver Kurmann (SUI) |
 Hans Lutz (FRG) |
| Team pursuit |
West Germany (FRG) Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel |
East Germany (GDR) Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter |
 Great Britain (GBR)William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble |
| Sprint |
 Daniel Morelon (FRA) |
John Nicholson (AUS) |
Omar Pkhakadze (URS) |
| Tandem |
Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov (URS) |
Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto (GDR) |
Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot (POL) |
Participating nations
359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union |
2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | West Germany |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Denmark |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| France |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Netherlands |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Norway |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Australia |
0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 |  East Germany |
0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 |  Poland |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |  Switzerland |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 |  Great Britain |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 22x20px Jaime Huelamo (ESP) was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher
Bruce Biddle (NZL) was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs. - ↑ Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.
