Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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Venues | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion |
Date | 29 August – 4 September 1972 |
Competitors | 359 from 54 nations |
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]
Medal summary
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race details | Hennie Kuiper Netherlands | Clyde Sefton Australia | no medal awarded [2] |
Team time trial details | 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
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual pursuit details | Knut Knudsen Norway | Xaver Kurmann Switzerland | Hans Lutz West Germany |
Team pursuit details | 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 details | Daniel Morelon France | John Nicholson Australia | Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union |
Tandem details | Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union | Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto East Germany | Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot Poland |
Time trial details | Niels Fredborg Denmark | Danny Clark Australia | Jürgen Schütze East Germany |
Participating nations
359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 |
Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
Notes
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ Jaime Huelamo
Spain was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle
New Zealand 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.
References
- International Olympic Committee results database
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Events at the 1972 Summer Olympics (Munich)
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- Basketball
- Badminton (demonstration)
- Boxing
- Canoeing
- Cycling
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- Fencing
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- Gymnastics
- Handball
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- Modern pentathlon
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- Shooting
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- Water skiing (demonstration)
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling