Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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Cycling at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Cycling at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Venues	Hachiōji City Hachioji Velodrome
Date	14 –20 October 1964
Competitors	303 from 40 nations
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The cycling competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only. The 4000m individual pursuit event was introduced at these Games.^[1]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Mario Zanin  Italy	Kjeld Rodian  Denmark	Walter Godefroot  Belgium
Team time trial details	Netherlands (NED) Bart Zoet Evert Dolman Gerben Karstens Jan Pieterse	Italy (ITA) Ferruccio Manza Severino Andreoli Luciano Dalla Bona Pietro Guerra	Sweden (SWE) Sture Pettersson Sven Hamrin Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit details	Jiří Daler  Czechoslovakia	Giorgio Ursi  Italy	Preben Isaksson  Denmark
Team pursuit details	United Team of Germany (EUA) Ernst Streng Lothar Claesges Karlheinz Henrichs Karl Link	Italy (ITA) Franco Testa Cencio Mantovani Carlo Rancati Luigi Roncaglia	Netherlands (NED) Cor Schuuring Henk Cornelisse Gerard Koel Jaap Oudkerk
Sprint details	Giovanni Pettenella  Italy	Sergio Bianchetto  Italy	Daniel Morelon  France
Tandem details	Angelo Damiano and Sergio Bianchetto  Italy	Imants Bodnieks and Viktor Logunov  Soviet Union	Willi Fuggerer and Klaus Kobusch  United Team of Germany
Time trial details	Patrick Sercu  Belgium	Giovanni Pettenella  Italy	Pierre Trentin  France

Participating nations

303 cyclists from 40 nations competed.^[1]

Argentina (10)  Australia (14)  Belgium (10)  Bulgaria (1)  Cambodia (6)  Colombia (8)  Czechoslovakia (9)  Denmark (12)  Ethiopia (4)  France (14)

United Team of Germany (13)  Great Britain (12)  Hong Kong (4)  Hungary (7)  India (5)  Iran (4)  Italy (14)  Japan (15)  Luxembourg (2)  Malaysia (9)

Mexico (9)  Mongolia (4)  Netherlands (12)  New Zealand (5)  Pakistan (4)  Peru (1)  Philippines (4)  Poland (8)  Taiwan (4)  Romania (5)

South Korea (6)  Soviet Union (12)  Spain (6)  Sweden (4)  Switzerland (5)  Thailand (8)  Trinidad and Tobago (3)  United States (16)  Uruguay (8)  Vietnam (6)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	3	5	0	8
2	Belgium	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
	United Team of Germany	1	0	1	2
5	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
6	Denmark	0	1	1	2
7	Soviet Union	0	1	0	1
8	France	0	0	2	2
9	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Cycling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

External links

• Official Olympic Report