Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Radstadion-72.jpg
Radstadion
Venues
Road cycling Grünwald
Bundesautobahn 96
Track cycling Radstadion
Dates 29 August – 4 September
Cyclists 359 from 54 countries
Top ranked countries
 Soviet Union: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 West Germany: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Denmark: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 France: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Netherlands: 1st  2nd  3rd  
« 1968 1976 »

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
Individual road race
details
 Hennie Kuiper (NED)  Clyde Sefton (AUS) 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

Event Gold Silver Bronze
1000m time trial
details
 Niels Fredborg (DEN)  Danny Clark (AUS)  Jürgen Schütze (GDR)
Individual pursuit
details
 Knut Knudsen (NOR)  Xaver Kurmann (SUI)  Hans Lutz (FRG)
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 (FRA)  John Nicholson (AUS)  Omar Pkhakadze (URS)
Tandem
details
 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]

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

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  2. 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.
  3.  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