Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	1	1	7
2	Soviet Union	1	0	4	5
3	United Team of Germany	0	4	0	4
4	Belgium	0	1	1	2

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union (URS)	Livio Trapè Italy (ITA)	Willy van den Berghen Belgium (BEL)
Team time trial	Italy (ITA) Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni	United Team of Germany (EUA) Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksey Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov
1000m time trial	Sante Gaiardoni Italy (ITA)	Dieter Gieseler United Team of Germany (EUA)	Rotislav Vargashkin Soviet Union (URS)
Sprint	Sante Gaiardoni Italy (ITA)	Leo Sterckx Belgium (BEL)	Valentino Gasparella Italy (ITA)
Tandem	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Beghetto Sergio Bianchetto	United Team of Germany (EUA) Jürgen Simon Lothar Stäber	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Leonov Boris Vasilyev
Team pursuit	Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin

Events at the 1960 Summer Olympics (Rome)
Athletics • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Cycling at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in cycling (men) and List of Olympic medalists in cycling (women)