Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Cycling; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venues	Satellite Circuit; Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome
Date	15 October – 21 October
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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Pierfranco Vianelli Italy	Leif Mortensen Denmark	Gösta Pettersson Sweden
Team time trial	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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, Individual	Daniel Rebillard France	Mogens Jensen Denmark	Xaver Kurmann Switzerland
Pursuit, Team	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	Daniel Morelon France	Giurdano Turrini Italy	Pierre Trentin France
Tandem	Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin (FRA)	Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Janssen (NED)	Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker (BEL)
Time trial	Pierre Trentin France	Niels Fredborg Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski Poland

329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.[1]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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 nations)		7	7	7	21

"Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.