Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
| Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad |
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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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 France: |
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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]
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race |
Hennie Kuiper Netherlands |
Clyde Sefton Australia |
no medal awarded [2] |
| Team time trial |
Soviet Union (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov |
.svg.png){kind=small} Poland (POL)Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda |
no medal awarded [3] |
Track cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual pursuit |
Knut Knudsen Norway |
Xaver Kurmann Switzerland |
Hans Lutz West Germany |
| 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 France |
John Nicholson Australia |
Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union |
| Tandem |
Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union |
Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto East Germany |
Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot Poland |
| 1000m time trial |
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 |
Notes
- 1 2 "Cycling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ Jaime Huelamo
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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
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