Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]
Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |
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Radstadion | |
Venues | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion |
Date | 29 August – 4 September |
Competitors | 359 from 54 nations |
Medal summary
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race |
Hennie Kuiper |
Clyde Sefton |
no medal awarded [2] |
Team time trial |
Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov |
Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda |
no medal awarded [3] |
Track cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual pursuit |
Knut Knudsen |
Xaver Kurmann |
Hans Lutz |
Team pursuit |
Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel |
Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter |
William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble |
Sprint |
Daniel Morelon |
John Nicholson |
Omar Pkhakadze |
Tandem |
Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov |
Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto |
Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot |
Time trial |
Niels Fredborg |
Danny Clark |
Jürgen Schütze |
Participating nations
359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (11 nations) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
Notes
- "Cycling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- Jaime Huelamo
Spain was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle New Zealand was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs. -
Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.
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