Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
The Seoul Olympic Velodrome in 2008
VenuesTongillo Road Course
Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Date8–24 September 1988
Competitors422 from 62 nations
at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road racemenwomen
Team time trialmen
Track cycling
Track time trialmen
Individual pursuitmen
Team pursuitmen
Sprintmenwomen
Points racemen

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
 Olaf Ludwig
 East Germany 		Bernd Gröne
 West Germany 		Christian Henn
 West Germany
Team time trial
  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
 Monique Knol
 Netherlands 		Jutta Niehaus
 West Germany 		Laima Zilporite
 Soviet Union

Track cycling

Men's

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
 Dan Frost
 Denmark 		Leo Peelen
 Netherlands 		Marat Ganeyev
 Soviet Union
Individual pursuit
 Gintautas Umaras
 Soviet Union 		Dean Woods
 Australia 		Bernd Dittert
 East Germany
Team pursuit
  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
 Lutz Heßlich
 East Germany 		Nikolay Kovsh
 Soviet Union 		Gary Neiwand
 Australia
1 km time trial
 Aleksandr Kirichenko
 Soviet Union 		Martin Vinnicombe
 Australia 		Robert Lechner
 West Germany

Women's

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

Participating nations

422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union4127
2 East Germany3216
3 Netherlands1102
4 Denmark1001
5 Australia0224
 West Germany0224
7 Poland0101
8 Sweden0011
 United States0011
Totals (9 entries)99927

References

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