Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Road cycling | Satellite Circuit | ||||||
Track cycling | Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome | ||||||
Dates | 15 October – 21 October | ||||||
Cyclists | 329 from 52 countries | ||||||
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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
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race |
Pierfranco Vianelli![]() |
Leif Mortensen![]() |
Gösta Pettersson![]() |
Team time trial |
![]() Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen |
![]() Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson |
![]() Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti |
Track cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pursuit, Individual |
Daniel Rebillard![]() |
Mogens Jensen![]() |
Xaver Kurmann![]() |
Pursuit, Team |
![]() Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen |
![]() Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner |
![]() Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato |
Sprint |
Daniel Morelon![]() |
Giurdano Turrini![]() |
Pierre Trentin![]() |
Tandem |
Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin ![]() |
Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Janssen ![]() |
Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker ![]() |
1000m time trial |
Pierre Trentin![]() |
Niels Fredborg![]() |
Janusz Kierzkowski![]() |
Participating nations
329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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References
- 1 2 "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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