Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad

Krylatskoye Velodrome in 2008
Venues
Road cycling Krylatskoye Sports Complex Cycling Circuit
Track cycling Krylatskoye Sports Complex Velodrome
Dates 20 July – 26 July
Cyclists 230 from 34 countries
Top ranked countries
Soviet Union: 3 1st, gold medalist(s)  1 2nd, silver medalist(s)  2 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
East Germany: 2 1st, gold medalist(s)  2 2nd, silver medalist(s)  0 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
Switzerland: 1 1st, gold medalist(s)  0 2nd, silver medalist(s)  0 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
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Cycling competitions at the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics were split into two categories: Road and Track. Six events were contested (all for men). All four events of the track cycling were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The 100 km team time trial event was held along the Moscow-Minsk highway. It started from 23rd kilometre off Moscow, had a turning point at 73.5 kilometre off Moscow and finished not far from the starting point. The individual road race event (14 laps, 189 kilometres total) was held at the Olympic Cycling Circuit of the Trade Unions Olympic Centre.[1][2]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
 Sergei Sukhoruchenkov
 Soviet Union		 Czesław Lang
 Poland		 Yuri Barinov
 Soviet Union
Team time trial
  Soviet Union (URS)
Yury Kashirin
Oleg Logvin
Sergei Shelpakov
Anatoly Yarkin		  East Germany (GDR)
Falk Boden
Bernd Drogan
Olaf Ludwig
Hans-Joachim Hartnick		  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Michal Klasa
Vlastibor Konečný
Alipi Kostadinov
Jiří Škoda

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual pursuit
 Robert Dill-Bundi
 Switzerland		 Alain Bondue
 France		 Hans-Henrik Ørsted
 Denmark
Team pursuit
  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Manakov
Valery Movchan
Vladimir Osokin
Vitaly Petrakov
Aleksandr Krasnov		  East Germany (GDR)
Gerald Mortag
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
Volker Winkler		  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Teodor Černý
Martin Penc
Jiří Pokorný
Igor Sláma
Sprint
 Lutz Heßlich
 East Germany		 Yavé Cahard
 France		 Sergei Kopylov
 Soviet Union
1 km time trial
 Lothar Thoms
 East Germany		 Aleksandr Panfilov
 Soviet Union		 David Weller
 Jamaica

Participating nations

230 cyclists from 34 nations competed.[1]

Medals

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union 3 1 2 6
2 East Germany 2 2 0 4
3 Switzerland 1 0 0 1
4 France 0 2 0 2
5 Poland 0 1 0 1
6 Czechoslovakia 0 0 2 2
7 Denmark 0 0 1 1
Jamaica 0 0 1 1

References

  1. 1 2 "Cycling at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Official Report". (nb: Country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.). Archived from the original on 27 January 2012.
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