Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Krylatsky Olympic Velodrome.jpg
Krylatskoye Velodrome in 2008
Venues
Road cycling Krylatskoye Sports Complex Cycling Circuit
Track cycling Krylatskoye Sports Complex Velodrome
Dates 20 July – 26 July
Cyclists 230 from 34 countries
Top ranked countries
 Soviet Union: 3 1st  1 2nd  2 3rd  
 East Germany: 2 1st  2 2nd  0 3rd  
 Switzerland: 1 1st  0 2nd  0 3rd  
« 1976 1984 »

Cycling competitions at the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics were split into two categories: Road and Track. Six events were contested (all for men). All four events of the track cycling were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The 100 km team time trial event was held along the Moscow-Minsk highway. It started from 23rd kilometre off Moscow, had a turning point at 73.5 kilometre off Moscow and finished not far from the starting point. The individual road race event (14 laps, 189 kilometres total) was held at the Olympic Cycling Circuit of the Trade Unions Olympic Centre.[1][2]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
details		  Sergei Sukhoruchenkov (URS)  Czesław Lang (POL)  Yuri Barinov (URS)
Team time trial
details		  Soviet Union (URS)
Yury Kashirin
Oleg Logvin
Sergei Shelpakov
Anatoly Yarkin		  East Germany (GDR)
Falk Boden
Bernd Drogan
Olaf Ludwig
Hans-Joachim Hartnick		  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Michal Klasa
Vlastibor Konečný
Alipi Kostadinov
Jiří Škoda

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
1 km time trial
details		  Lothar Thoms (GDR)  Aleksandr Panfilov (URS)  David Weller (JAM)
Individual pursuit
details		  Robert Dill-Bundi (SUI)  Alain Bondue (FRA)  Hans-Henrik Ørsted (DEN)
Team pursuit
details		  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Manakov
Valery Movchan
Vladimir Osokin
Vitaly Petrakov
Aleksandr Krasnov		  East Germany (GDR)
Gerald Mortag
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
Volker Winkler		  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Teodor Černý
Martin Penc
Jiří Pokorný
Igor Sláma
Sprint
details		  Lutz Heßlich (GDR)  Yavé Cahard (FRA)  Sergei Kopylov (URS)

Participating nations

230 cyclists from 34 nations competed.[1]

Medals

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union 3 1 2 6
2  East Germany 2 2 0 4
3  Switzerland 1 0 0 1
4  France 0 2 0 2
5  Poland 0 1 0 1
6  Czechoslovakia 0 0 2 2
7  Denmark 0 0 1 1
 Jamaica 0 0 1 1

References

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