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| Venues | Los Angeles and surrounding area Rose Bowl |
| Date | August 1 –3, 1932 |
| Competitors | 66 from 13 nations |
The cycling competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. [1]
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual time trial | Attilio Pavesi  Italy | Guglielmo Segato Italy | Bernhard Britz  Sweden |
| Team time trial |  Italy (ITA)Giuseppe Olmo Attilio Pavesi Guglielmo Segato |  Denmark (DEN)Henry Hansen Leo Nielsen Frode Sørensen |  Sweden (SWE)Arne Berg Bernhard Britz Sven Höglund |
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Pursuit, team | Italy (ITA) Paolo Pedretti Nino Borsari Marco Cimatti Alberto Ghilardi |  France (FRA)Henri Mouillefarine Paul Chocque Amédée Fournier René Legrèves |  Great Britain (GBR)Frank Southall William Harvell Charles Holland Ernest Johnson |
| Sprint | Jacobus van Egmond  Netherlands | Louis Chaillot  France | Bruno Pellizzari Italy |
| Tandem | Louis Chaillot and Maurice Perrin (FRA) | Ernest Chambers and Stanley Chambers (GBR) | Harald Christensen and Willy Gervin (DEN) |
| 1000 m time trial | Dunc Gray  Australia | Jacobus van Egmond Netherlands | Charles Rampelberg France |
66 cyclists from 13 nations competed. [1]
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| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 |  Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  Australia (AUS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 7 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
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