Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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| Venues | Satellite Circuit Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome |
| Date | 15 –21 October 1968 |
| Competitors | 329 from 52 nations |
The cycling competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.[1]
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race | Pierfranco Vianelli Italy | Leif Mortensen Denmark | Gösta Pettersson Sweden |
| Team time trial |  Netherlands (NED)Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen | Sweden (SWE) Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson | Italy (ITA) Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti |
Track cycling
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Pursuit, Individual | Daniel Rebillard France | Mogens Jensen Denmark | Xaver Kurmann.svg.png){kind=small} Switzerland |
| Pursuit, Team | Denmark (DEN) Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen | .svg.png){kind=small} West Germany (FRG)Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner | Italy (ITA) Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato |
| Sprint | Daniel Morelon France | Giurdano Turrini Italy | Pierre Trentin France |
| Tandem | Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin (FRA) | Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Jansen (NED) | .svg.png){kind=small} Daniel Goensand Robert van Lancker (BEL) |
| Time trial | Pierre Trentin France | Niels Fredborg Denmark | Janusz Kierzkowski.svg.png){kind=small} Poland |
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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| 1 | France | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Denmark | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (9 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
References
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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