Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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 |
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.
Medal summary
Road cycling
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 |
Track cycling
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Pursuit, team details | Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto | United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin |
Sprint details | Sante Gaiardoni Italy | Leo Sterckx Belgium | Valentino Gasparella Italy |
Tandem details | Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto Italy | Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber United Team of Germany | Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev Soviet Union |
Time trial details | Sante Gaiardoni Italy | Dieter Gieseler United Team of Germany | Rostislav Vargashkin Soviet Union |
Participating nations
297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
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 |
References
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
External links
- Official Olympic Report