Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Road cycling | Satellite Circuit | ||||||
Track cycling | Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome | ||||||
Dates | 15 October – 21 October | ||||||
Cyclists | 329 from 52 countries | ||||||
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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]
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Medal summary
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race |
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Team time trial |
![]() Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen |
![]() Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson |
![]() Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti |
Track cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1000m time trial |
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Pursuit, Individual |
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Pursuit, Team |
![]() Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen |
![]() Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner |
![]() Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato |
Sprint |
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Tandem |
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![]() and Jan Janssen (NED) |
![]() and Robert van Lancker (BEL) |
Participating nations
329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
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1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
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1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |