Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial

Cycling - Men's team time trial at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Artesia Freeway, Buena Park, California
Dates	5 August
Competitors	104 from 26 nations
Medalists
Marcello Bartalini Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Claudio Vandelli Italy   Alfred Achermann Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial Benno Wiss Switzerland   Ron Kiefel Clarence Knickman Davis Phinney Andrew Weaver United States

Cycling events at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men		women
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men
Time trial		men
Points race		men

The men's team time trial cycling event at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place on 5 August and was one of eight cycling events at the 1984 Olympics. The qualification and quarter finals were on 2 August and the semi finals and finals on 3 August.^[1]

The Italian team recorded a dominant victory by winning by 4:10 over Switzerland. The Italian team was one of the first teams to use modern carbon-fiber disc wheels, which are now commonly used in time trials. Their time of 1h 58:28 was the fastest time ever recorded over 100 km in a team time trial, and would have been faster without a flat tire that cost them 20 seconds to change the wheel. The venue was a 15½-mile stretch of the Artesia Freeway.

Results

Rank	Cyclists	Nation	Time
	Marcello Bartalini Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Claudio Vandelli	Italy	1:58:28
	Alfred Achermann Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial Benno Wiss	Switzerland	2:02:38
	Ron Kiefel Clarence Knickman Davis Phinney Andrew Weaver	United States	2:02:57
4	Jos Alberts Erik Breukink Maarten Ducrot Gert Jakobs	Netherlands	2:04:46
5	Bengt Asplund Per Christiansson Magnus Knutsson Håkan Larsson	Sweden	2:05:07
6	Jean-François Bernard Philippe Bouvatier Thierry Marie Denis Pelizzari	France	2:05:31
7	John Carlsen Kim Eriksen Lars Jensen Søren Lilholt	Denmark	2:05:31
8	Steven Poulter Keith Reynolds Peter Sanders Darryl Webster	Great Britain	2:05:51
9	Bruno Bulić Primož Čerin Janez Lampič Bojan Ropret	Yugoslavia	2:05:55
10	Dag Hopen Hans Petter Ødegård Arnstein Raunehaug Morten Sæther	Norway	2:07:05
11	Karl Krenauer Johann Lienhart Peter Muckenhuber Helmut Wechselberger	Austria	2:08:08
12	Hartmut Bölts Thomas Freienstein Bernd Gröne Michael Maue	West Germany	2:08:15
13	Harry Hannus Kari Myyryläinen Patrick Wackström Sixten Wackström	Finland	2:08:17
14	Pierre Harvey Alain Masson Robert Pulfer Martin Willock	Canada	2:09:44
15	Jeff Leslie Michael Lynch Gary Trowell John Watters	Australia	2:10:20
16	Philip Cassidy Martin Earley Paul Kimmage Gary Thomson	Ireland	2:10:52
17	Raúl Alcalá Félipe Enríquez Guillermo Gutiérrez Cuauthémoc Muñoz	Mexico	2:13:16
18	Gilson Alvaristo Jair Braga Renan Ferraro Marcos Mazzaron	Brazil	2:15:37
19	Choy Yiu Chung Hung Chung Yam Law Siu On Leung Hung Tak	Hong Kong	2:17:24
20	Jo Geon-haeng Jang Yun-ho Kim Cheol-seok Lee Jin-ok	South Korea	2:17:25
21	Han Shuxiang Liu Fu Wang Wanqiang Zeng Bo	China	2:17:34
22	David Dibben Alfred Ebanks Craig Merren Aldyn Wint	Cayman Islands	2:22:49
23	Alain Ayissi Lucas Feutsa Joseph Kono Dieudonné Ntep	Cameroon	2:25:26
24	Hassan Al-Absi Ahmed Al-Saleh Mohammed Al-Shanqiti Rajab Moqbil	Saudi Arabia	2:28:28
25	Joslyn Chavarria Warren Coye Kurt Cutkelvin Merlyn Dawson	Belize	2:36:55
26	Dyton Chimwaza Daniel Kaswanga George Nayeja Amadu Yusufu	Malawi	2:37:32

References

1. "Cycling at the 1984 Summer Games: Men's team time trial". Sports Reference. Retrieved 7 January 2015.