Cycling_at_the_1968_Summer_Olympics
Quick Facts Cycling at the Games of the XIX Olympiad, Venues ...
| Cycling at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |
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| Venues | Satellite Circuit Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome |
| Date | 15 –21 October 1968 |
| Competitors | 329 from 52 nations |
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The cycling competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]
Road cycling
More information Games, Gold ...
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race details |
Pierfranco Vianelli Italy |
Leif Mortensen Denmark |
Gösta Pettersson Sweden |
| Team time trial details |
 Netherlands (NED)Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen |
 Sweden (SWE)Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson |
 Italy (ITA)Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti |
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Track cycling
More information Games, Gold ...
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Pursuit, Individual details |
Daniel Rebillard France |
Mogens Jensen Denmark |
Xaver Kurmann Switzerland |
| Pursuit, Team details |
 Denmark (DEN)Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen |
 West Germany (FRG)Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner |
Italy (ITA) Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato |
| Sprint details |
Daniel Morelon France |
Giurdano Turrini Italy |
Pierre Trentin France |
| Tandem details |
 Daniel Morelonand Pierre Trentin (FRA) |
Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Jansen (NED) |
 Daniel Goensand Robert van Lancker (BEL) |
| Time trial details |
Pierre Trentin France |
Niels Fredborg Denmark |
Janusz Kierzkowski Poland |
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329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.[1]
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More information Rank, Nation ...
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | France | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Denmark | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (9 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
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- "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.