Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
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]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Pierfranco Vianelli   Italy	Leif Mortensen   Denmark	Gösta Pettersson   Sweden
Team time trial details	Netherlands Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen	Sweden Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson	Italy Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, Individual details	Daniel Rebillard   France	Mogens Jensen   Denmark	Xaver Kurmann   Switzerland
Pursuit, Team details	Denmark Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen	West Germany Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner	Italy Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato
Sprint details	Daniel Morelon   France	Giurdano Turrini   Italy	Pierre Trentin   France
Tandem details	Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin  (FRA)	Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Jansen  (NED)	Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker  (BEL)
Time trial details	Pierre Trentin   France	Niels Fredborg   Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski   Poland

Participating nations

329 cyclists from 52 nations competed. ^[1]

Argentina  (9)   Australia  (9)   Barbados  (4)   Belgium  (15)   British Honduras  (2)   Canada  (6)   Taiwan  (5)   Colombia  (10)   Congo-Kinshasa  (5)   Costa Rica  (5)   Cuba  (6)   Czechoslovakia  (8)   Denmark  (13)

East Germany  (10)   Ecuador  (4)   El Salvador  (5)   Ethiopia  (5)   Finland  (4)   France  (14)   Great Britain  (14)   Guatemala  (4)   Guyana  (1)   Hungary  (7)   Iraq  (1)   Ireland  (3)   Italy  (16)

Japan  (1)   Lebanon  (1)   Luxembourg  (1)   Madagascar  (1)   Malaysia  (2)   Mexico  (12)   Netherlands  (10)   New Zealand  (5)   Norway  (6)   Philippines  (3)   Poland  (10)   Puerto Rico  (1)   Romania  (1)

San Marino  (2)   South Korea  (2)   Soviet Union  (15)   Spain  (7)   Sweden  (6)   Switzerland  (4)   Thailand  (7)   Trinidad and Tobago  (7)   United States  (15)   Uruguay  (5)   Vietnam  (2)   West Germany  (14)   Yugoslavia  (4)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

References

1. "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.