Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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.

Cycling
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
VenuesVia Cassia
Via Cristoforo Colombo
Via di Grottarossa
Via Flaminia
Olympic Velodrome
Date26 –29 August 1960
Competitors297 from 48 nations
← 1956
1964 →

Medal summary

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Road cycling

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
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Viktor Kapitonov
  Soviet Union
Livio Trapè
  Italy
Willy van den Berghen
  Belgium
Time trial, team
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  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

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Pursuit, team
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  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
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Sante Gaiardoni
  Italy
Leo Sterckx
  Belgium
Valentino Gasparella
  Italy
Tandem
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Giuseppe Beghetto
and Sergio Bianchetto
  Italy
Jürgen Simon
and Lothar Stäber
  United Team of Germany
Vladimir Leonov
and Boris Vasilyev
  Soviet Union
Time trial
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Sante Gaiardoni
  Italy
Dieter Gieseler
  United Team of Germany
Rostislav Vargashkin
  Soviet Union

Participating nations

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297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Italy5117
2  Soviet Union1045
3  United Team of Germany0404
4  Belgium0112
Totals (4 entries)66618

References

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  1. ^ a b "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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