Cycling_at_the_1960_Summer_Olympics
Quick Facts Cycling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Venues ...
| Cycling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |
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| Venues | Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia Olympic Velodrome |
| Date | 26 –29 August 1960 |
| Competitors | 297 from 48 nations |
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The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.[1] The event was marred by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.
Road cycling
More information Games, Gold ...
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race details |
Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union |
Livio Trapè Italy |
Willy van den Berghen Belgium |
| Time trial, team details |
 Italy (ITA)Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni |
 United Team of Germany (EUA)Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke |
 Soviet Union (URS)Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov |
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Track cycling
More information Games, Gold ...
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297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.[1]
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More information Rank, Nation ...
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Italy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | United Team of Germany | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |  Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
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- "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2014.