Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Cycling ; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venues	Artesia Freeway, Streets of Mission Viejo ; Olympic Velodrome
Date	July 29–August 3, 1984
Competitors	359 from 54 nations
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Last updated December 14, 2025

The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.^[1]

Road cycling

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Alexi Grewal United States	Steve Bauer Canada	Dag Otto Lauritzen Norway
Team time trial details	Italy Marcello Bartalini Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Claudio Vandelli	Switzerland Alfred Achermann Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial Benno Wiss	United States Ron Kiefel Clarence Knickman Davis Phinney Andrew Weaver

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Connie Carpenter United States	Rebecca Twigg United States	Sandra Schumacher West Germany

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race details	Roger Ilegems Belgium	Uwe Messerschmidt West Germany	José Youshimatz Mexico
Pursuit, individual details	Steve Hegg United States	Rolf Gölz West Germany	Leonard Nitz United States
Pursuit, team details	Australia Michael Grenda Kevin Nichols Michael Turtur Dean Woods	United States David Grylls Steve Hegg Patrick McDonough Leonard Nitz Brent Emery	West Germany Reinhard Alber Rolf Gölz Roland Günther Michael Marx
Sprint details	Mark Gorski United States	Nelson Vails United States	Tsutomu Sakamoto Japan
1 km time trial details	Fredy Schmidtke West Germany	Curt Harnett Canada	Fabrice Colas France

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.^[1]

Italy (21)
Jamaica (5)
Japan (9)
Lebanon (1)
Malaysia (1)
Malawi (4)
Mexico (8)
Morocco (4)
Netherlands (16)
New Zealand (7)
Norway (10)
Peru (1)
Philippines (4)
Puerto Rico (1)

Medal table

References

1 2 "Cycling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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