Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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Road cycling | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 |
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Dates | 29 August – 4 September | ||||||
Cyclists | 359 from 54 countries | ||||||
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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 |
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Individual road race |
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no medal awarded [2] |
Team time trial |
![]() Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov |
![]() Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda |
no medal awarded [3] |
Track cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1000m time trial |
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Individual pursuit |
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Team pursuit |
![]() Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel |
![]() Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter |
![]() William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble |
Sprint |
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Tandem |
![]() and Igor Tselovalnykov (URS) |
![]() and Werner Otto (GDR) |
![]() 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 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
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0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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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.
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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.