| Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad | |
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| Venues | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion |
| Date | 29 August – 4 September 1972 |
| Competitors | 359 from 54 nations |
The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race | Hennie Kuiper  Netherlands | Clyde Sefton  Australia | no medal awarded [2] |
| Team time trial |  Soviet Union (URS)Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov |  Poland (POL)Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda | no medal awarded [3] |
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual pursuit | Knut Knudsen  Norway | Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland | Hans Lutz  West Germany |
| Team pursuit |  West Germany (FRG)Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel |  East Germany (GDR)Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter |  Great Britain (GBR)William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble |
| Sprint | Daniel Morelon  France | John Nicholson Australia | Omar Pkhakadze  Soviet Union |
| Tandem | Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union | Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto  East Germany | Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot  Poland |
| Time trial | Niels Fredborg  Denmark | Danny Clark Australia | Jürgen Schütze East Germany |
359 cyclists from 54 nations competed. [1]
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| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Soviet Union | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | West Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 |  Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Australia | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | East Germany | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |  Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 | |
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