Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venues
Road cycling Artesia Freeway, Streets of Mission Viejo
Track cycling Olympic Velodrome
Dates July 29 - August 3
Cyclists 359 from 54 countries
Top ranked countries
United States: 4 1st, gold medalist(s)  3 2nd, silver medalist(s)  2 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
West Germany: 1 1st, gold medalist(s)  2 2nd, silver medalist(s)  2 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
Australia: 1 1st, gold medalist(s)  0 2nd, silver medalist(s)  0 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
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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 cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program, with a single event, the individual road race. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.[1]

The American cyclist Pat McDonough later admitted to blood doping at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.[2] Following the games it was revealed that one-third of the U.S. cycling team had received blood transfusions before the games.[2] Blood doping was banned by the International Olympic Committee in 1985, though no test existed for it at the time.[2]

Road cycling

Men's team time trial (USA team)
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
 Alexi Grewal
 United States		 Steve Bauer
 Canada		 Dag Otto Lauritzen
 Norway
Men's team time trial
  Italy (ITA)
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli		  Switzerland (SUI)
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss		  United States (USA)
Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
Women's road race
 Connie Carpenter
 United States		 Rebecca Twigg
 United States		 Sandra Schumacher
 West Germany

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
 Roger Ilegems
 Belgium		 Uwe Messerschmidt
 West Germany		 José Youshimatz
 Mexico
Pursuit, Individual
 Steve Hegg
 United States		 Rolf Gölz
 West Germany		 Leonard Nitz
 United States
Pursuit, Team
  Australia (AUS)
Michael Grenda
Kevin Nichols
Michael Turtur
Dean Woods 		 United States (USA)
David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Nitz
Brent Emery		  West Germany (FRG)
Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Sprint
 Mark Gorski
 United States		 Nelson Vails
 United States		 Tsutomu Sakamoto
 Japan
1 km time trial
 Fredy Schmidtke
 West Germany		 Curt Harnett
 Canada		 Fabrice Colas
 France

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 4 3 2 9
2 West Germany 1 2 2 5
3 Australia 1 0 0 1
Belgium 1 0 0 1
Italy 1 0 0 1
6 Canada 0 2 0 2
7 Switzerland 0 1 0 1
8 France 0 0 1 1
Japan 0 0 1 1
Mexico 0 0 1 1
Norway 0 0 1 1

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cycling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Steven B. Kayne (2006). Sport And Exercise Medicine For Pharmacists. Pharmaceutical Press. pp. 232–. ISBN 978-0-85369-600-1. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
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