Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit

These are the official results of the men's individual pursuit at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, held on 17 and 18 October 1968. There were 28 participants from 28 nations.[1]

Men's cycling individual pursuit at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Velodrome, Mexico City
Date	17 to 18 October 1968
Competitors	28 from 28 nations
Medalists
Daniel Rébillard  France Mogens Frey  Denmark Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland

Competition format

The individual pursuit competition consisted of a qualifying round and a 3-round knockout tournament, including a bronze medal race. Each race, in both the qualifying round and the knock-out rounds, consisted of a pair of cyclists starting from opposite sides of the track. The cyclists raced for 4,000 metres, attempting to finish with the fastest time and, if possible, catch the other cyclist. For the qualifying round, the eight fastest times overall (regardless of whether the cyclist finished first or second in his heat, though any cyclist who was overtaken was eliminated) earned advancement to the knockout rounds. In the knockout rounds, the winner of each heat advanced to the next round.[2]

Results

Qualifying round

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Xaver Kurmann	Switzerland	4:40.41	Q
2	John Bylsma	Australia	4:41.10	Q
3	Daniel Rébillard	France	4:42.15	Q
4	Mogens Frey	Denmark	4:42.30	Q
5	Cipriano Chemello	Italy	4:43.58	Q
6	Rupert Kratzer	West Germany	4:43.84	Q
7	Radamés Treviño	Mexico	4:44.12	Q
8	Paul Crapez	Belgium	4:44.93	Q
9	Martín Emilio Rodríguez	Colombia	4:45.38
10	Rajmund Zieliński	Poland	4:46.03
11	Knut Knudsen	Norway	4:46.70
12	Juan Alberto Merlos	Argentina	4:47.81
13	Daniel Yuste	Spain	4:50.36
14	Jiří Daler	Czechoslovakia	4:50.50
15	Ian Hallam	Great Britain	4:50.62
16	Ole Wackström	Finland	4:50.76
17	Gösta Pettersson	Sweden	4:51.37
18	David Brink	United States	4:55.40
19	Vernon Stauble	Trinidad and Tobago	5:07.80
20	Benjamin Evangelista	Philippines	5:22.12
21	Tarek Abou Al Dahab	Lebanon	5:35.42
22	Colin Forde	Barbados	5:35.60
–	Inocente Lizano	Cuba	4:51.09	Overtaken
–	Fedor den Hertog	Netherlands	4:54.32	Overtaken
–	Emil Rusu	Romania	4:56.45	Overtaken
–	Gwon Jung-hyeon	South Korea	5:09.90	Overtaken
–	Pakanit Boriharnvanakhet	Thailand	5:34.50	Overtaken
–	Denfield McNab	Belize	6:12.96	Overtaken

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Xaver Kurmann	Switzerland	4:45.94	Q
2	Paul Crapez	Belgium	4:49.99

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	John Bylsma	Australia	4:41.66	Q
2	Radamés Treviño	Mexico	4:42.40

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Daniel Rébillard	France	4:39.87	Q
2	Rupert Kratzer	West Germany	4:41.43

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Mogens Frey	Denmark	4:37.54	Q
2	Cipriano Chemello	Italy	4:42.29

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Mogens Frey	Denmark	4:42.05	Q
2	Xaver Kurmann	Switzerland	4:44.26	B

Semifinal 2

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Daniel Rébillard	France	4:41.80	Q
2	John Bylsma	Australia	4:48.73	B

Finals

Bronze medal match

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time
	Xaver Kurmann	Switzerland	4:39.42
4	John Bylsma	Australia	4:41.60

Final

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time
	Daniel Rébillard	France	4:41.71
	Mogens Frey	Denmark	4:42.43

Final classification

Rank	Name	Nation
	Daniel Rébillard	France
	Mogens Frey	Denmark
	Xaver Kurmann	Switzerland
4	John Bylsma	Australia
5	Cipriano Chemello	Italy
	Paul Crapez	Belgium
	Rupert Kratzer	West Germany
	Radamés Treviño	Mexico
9	Martín Rodríguez	Colombia
10	Rajmund Zieliński	Poland
11	Knut Knudsen	Norway
12	Juan Alberto Merlos	Argentina
13	Daniel Yuste	Spain
14	Jiří Daler	Czechoslovakia
15	Ian Hallam	Great Britain
16	Ole Wackström	Finland
17	Gösta Pettersson	Sweden
18	David Brink	United States
19	Vernon Stauble	Trinidad and Tobago
20	Benjamin Evangelista	Philippines
21	Tarek Abou Al Dahab	Lebanon
22	Colin Forde	Barbados
AC	Inocente Lizano	Cuba
	Fedor den Hertog	Netherlands
	Emil Rusu	Romania
	Gwon Jung-hyeon	South Korea
	Pakanit Boriharnvanakhet	Thailand
	Denfield McNab	Belize

References

1. "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's Individual Pursuit". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
2. Official Report, vol. 3, p. 626.