Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
The Seoul Olympic Velodrome in 2008
Venues	Tongillo Road Course Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Date	8–24 September 1988
Competitors	422 from 62 nations
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The cycling competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul consisted of two different categories: road cycling and track cycling. Nine events were contested, including the first women's sprint event at the Olympics. ^[1]

Road cycling

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Olaf Ludwig   East Germany	Bernd Gröne   West Germany	Christian Henn   West Germany
Team time trial details	East Germany  (GDR) Jan Schur Uwe Ampler Mario Kummer Maik Landsmann	Poland  (POL) Andrzej Sypytkowski Joachim Halupczok Zenon Jaskuła Marek Leśniewski	Sweden  (SWE) Michel Lafis Anders Jarl Björn Johansson Jan Karlsson

Women's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Monique Knol   Netherlands	Jutta Niehaus   West Germany	Laima Zilporite   Soviet Union

Track cycling

Men's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race details	Dan Frost   Denmark	Leo Peelen   Netherlands	Marat Ganeyev   Soviet Union
Individual pursuit details	Gintautas Umaras   Soviet Union	Dean Woods   Australia	Bernd Dittert   East Germany
Team pursuit details	Soviet Union  (URS) Viatcheslav Ekimov Artūras Kasputis Dmitry Nelyubin Gintautas Umaras	East Germany  (GDR) Carsten Wolf Steffen Blochwitz Roland Hennig Dirk Meier	Australia  (AUS) Scott McGrory Dean Woods Brett Dutton Wayne McCarney Stephen McGlede
Sprint details	Lutz Heßlich   East Germany	Nikolay Kovsh   Soviet Union	Gary Neiwand   Australia
1 km time trial details	Aleksandr Kirichenko   Soviet Union	Martin Vinnicombe   Australia	Robert Lechner   West Germany

Women's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint details	Erika Salumäe   Soviet Union	Christa Luding-Rothenburger   East Germany	Connie Young   United States

Participating nations

422 cyclists from 62 nations competed. ^[1]

Algeria  (2)   Andorra  (2)   Antigua and Barbuda  (2)   Argentina  (7)   Australia  (17)   Austria  (7)   Barbados  (2)   Belgium  (6)   Belize  (5)   Bolivia  (1)   Brazil  (8)   Canada  (11)   Cayman Islands  (6)   China  (9)   Chinese Taipei  (2)   Colombia  (7)

Zaire  (4)   Czechoslovakia  (13)   Denmark  (9)   East Germany  (17)   Ecuador  (1)   Finland  (4)   France  (16)   Great Britain  (17)   Guatemala  (5)   Guyana  (2)   Hong Kong  (5)   Hungary  (1)   Iran  (7)   Ireland  (5)   Italy  (18)

Jamaica  (3)   Japan  (12)   Lebanon  (2)   Libya  (2)   Liechtenstein  (3)   Malawi  (4)   Malaysia  (2)   Mexico  (5)   Monaco  (1)   Netherlands  (13)   New Zealand  (13)   Norway  (5)   Philippines  (3)   Poland  (11)   Sierra Leone  (1)   South Korea  (15)

Soviet Union  (18)   Spain  (13)   Suriname  (1)   Sweden  (8)   Switzerland  (9)   Trinidad and Tobago  (2)   United Arab Emirates  (6)   United States  (19)   Virgin Islands  (1)   Uruguay  (3)   Venezuela  (4)   Vietnam  (1)   West Germany  (15)   Yugoslavia  (6)   Zimbabwe  (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	1	2	7
2	East Germany	3	2	1	6
3	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
4	Denmark	1	0	0	1
5	Australia	0	2	2	4
	West Germany	0	2	2	4
7	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27

References

1. "Cycling at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

External links

• Official Report