Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial

Men's cycling team time trial at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Mexico City 100.00 km (62.1 mi)
Date	15 October 1968
Competitors	120 from 30 nations
Winning time	2:07:49.06
Medalists
Fedor den Hertog, Jan Krekels, René Pijnen, Joop Zoetemelk   Netherlands   Erik Pettersson, Gösta Pettersson, Sture Pettersson, Tomas Pettersson   Sweden   Giovanni Bramucci, Vittorio Marcelli, Mauro Simonetti, Pierfranco Vianelli   Italy

Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men
1000 m time trial		men
Tandem		men

These are the official results of the Men's Team Time Trial at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, held on 15 October 1968. There were 120 participants from 30 nations.^[1]

Final classification

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen Joop Zoetemelk	Netherlands	2:07:49.06
02 !	Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson	Sweden	2:09:26.60
03 !	Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti Pierfranco Vianelli	Italy	2:10:18.74
4	Verner Blaudzun Jørgen Emil Hansen Ole Højlund Pedersen Leif Mortensen	Denmark	2:12:41.41
5	Thorleif Andresen Ørnulf Andresen Tore Milsett Leif Yli	Norway	2:14:32.85
6	Jan Magiera Zenon Czechowski Marian Kegel Andrzej Bławdzin	Poland	2:14:40.98
7	Juan Alberto Merlos Carlos Miguel Álvarez Roberto Breppe Ernesto Contreras	Argentina	2:15:34.24
8	Burkhard Ebert Jürgen Tschan Ortwin Czarnowski Dieter Koslar	West Germany	2:15:37.25
9	Boris Shukhov Aleksandr Dokhlyakov Yury Dmitriyev Valery Yardy	Soviet Union	2:15:39.58
10	Agustín Alcántara Adolfo Belmonte Roberto Brito Radamés Treviño	Mexico	2:16:08.44
11	John Bettison Roy Cromack Pete Smith John Watson	Great Britain	2:16:38.60
12	Nemesio Jiménez José Gómez José González Miguel Lasa	Spain	2:16:38.90
13	Klaus Ampler Günter Hoffmann Dieter Grabe Axel Peschel	East Germany	2:17:51.29
14	Donald Wilson Kevin Morgan Peter McDermott Dave Watson	Australia	2:18:09.09
15	Jean-Pierre Boulard Robert Bouloux Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Claude le Chatellier	France	2:18:35.82
16	Cvitko Bilić Rudi Valenčič Tanasije Kuvalja Franc Škerlj	Yugoslavia	2:18:52.20
17	András Takács András Mészáros Imre Géra Tibor Magyar	Hungary	2:20:30.36
18	Michel Coulon Frans Mintjens Marcel Grifnée Englebert Opdebeeck	Belgium	2:20:52.93
19	Mauno Uusivirta Ole Wackström Raimo Honkanen Raimo Suikkanen	Finland	2:20:55.47
20	John Howard Oliver Martin John Allis Jim Van Boven	United States	2:24:13.50
21	Evaristo Oliva Francisco Cuque Jorge Inés Saturnino Rustrián	Guatemala	2:24:20.7
22	Arnulfo Pozo Hipólito Pozo Noé Medina Victor Morales	Ecuador	2:25:15.26
23	Neil Lyster Richie Thomson John Dean Des Thomson	New Zealand	2:25:46.47
24	Luis Sosa Walter Garre Jorge Jukich René Deceja	Uruguay	2:25:47.20
25	Joe Jones Jules Béland Marcel Roy Yves Landry	Canada	2:27:18.14
26	Yemane Negassi Fisihasion Ghebreyesus Mikael Saglimbeni Tekeste Woldu	Ethiopia	2:30:36.79
27	Adrián Solano José Sánchez José Manuel Soto Miguel Ángel Sánchez	Costa Rica	2:36:25.79
28	Roberto García Francisco Funes Juan Molina Mauricio Bolaños	El Salvador	2:39:38.39
29	Deng Chueng-hwai Liu Cheng-tao Shue Ming-shu Jiang Guang-nan	Chinese Taipei	2:42:13.88
30	Constantin Kabemba François Ombanzi Jean Barnabe Samuel Kibamba	DR Congo	2:42:57.58

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