Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venues	Mont Royal Park; Montreal Olympic Velodrome
Date	18 -24 July 1976
Competitors	295 from 49 nations
	← 1972 1980 →

The cycling competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The 2000m tandem event, contested at the previous 13 Games since 1908, was dropped from the Olympic cycling program.^[1]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Bernt Johansson Sweden	Giuseppe Martinelli Italy	Mieczysław Nowicki Poland
Team time trial details	Soviet Union (URS) Aavo Pikkuus Valery Chaplygin Anatoly Chukanov Vladimir Kaminsky	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Tadeusz Mytnik Mieczysław Nowicki Stanisław Szozda	Denmark (DEN) Jørn Lund Verner Blaudzun Gert Frank Jørgen Hansen

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit details	Gregor Braun West Germany	Herman Ponsteen Netherlands	Thomas Huschke East Germany
Team pursuit details	West Germany (FRG) Peter Vonhof Gregor Braun Hans Lutz Günther Schumacher	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Sokolov Vladimir Osokin Aleksandr Perov Vitaly Petrakov	Great Britain (GBR) Ian Hallam Ian Banbury Michael Bennett Robin Croker
Sprint details	Anton Tkáč Czechoslovakia	Daniel Morelon France	Jürgen Geschke East Germany
1 km time trial details	Klaus-Jürgen Grünke East Germany	Michel Vaarten Belgium	Niels Fredborg Denmark

Participating nations

295 cyclists from 49 nations competed.^[1]

Antigua and Barbuda (2)
Argentina (4)
Australia (12)
Austria (6)
Barbados (2)
Belgium (7)
Bolivia (1)
Bulgaria (6)
Cameroon (4)
Canada (11)
Chile (2)
Colombia (11)
Costa Rica (1)

Cuba (6)
Czechoslovakia (11)
Denmark (11)
East Germany (11)
Finland (1)
France (14)
Great Britain (11)
Greece (1)
Hong Kong (4)
Hungary (1)
Iran (7)
Ireland (2)

Italy (14)
Jamaica (3)
Japan (5)
Luxembourg (2)
Malaysia (1)
Mexico (2)
Netherlands (12)
New Zealand (4)
Nicaragua (4)
Norway (8)
Poland (11)
San Marino (1)

Soviet Union (12)
Spain (4)
Sweden (6)
Switzerland (6)
Thailand (6)
Trinidad and Tobago (2)
Turkey (1)
United States (13)
Uruguay (5)
Venezuela (6)
West Germany (12)
Yugoslavia (2)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
3	East Germany	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
4	Sweden	1	0	0	1
6	Poland	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark	0	0	2	2
12	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

^ ^a ^b "Cycling at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.

[sports-reference-1] "Cycling at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.

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