Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venues
Road cycling Hachiōji City
Track cycling Hachioji Velodrome
Dates 14 October – 20 October
Cyclists 303 from 40 countries
Top ranked countries
Italy: 3 1st  5 2nd  0 3rd  
Belgium: 1 1st  0 2nd  1 3rd  
Netherlands: 1 1st  0 2nd  1 3rd  
Germany: 1 1st  0 2nd  1 3rd  
« 1960 1968 »

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

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race
 Mario Zanin (ITA)  Kjeld Rodian (DEN)  Walter Godefroot (BEL)
Team time trial
 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
Sprint
 Giovanni Pettenella (ITA)  Sergio Bianchetto (ITA)  Daniel Morelon (FRA)
1000m time trial
 Patrick Sercu (BEL)  Giovanni Pettenella (ITA)  Pierre Trentin (FRA)
Tandem
 Italy (ITA)
Sergio Bianchetto
Angelo Damiano
 Soviet Union (URS)
Imants Bodnieks
Viktor Logunov
 Germany (EUA)
Willi Fuggerer
Klaus Kobusch
Individual pursuit
 Jiří Daler (TCH)  Giorgio Ursi (ITA)  Preben Isaksson (DEN)
Team pursuit
 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

Participating nations

303 cyclists from 40 nations competed.[1]

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
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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Cycling at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

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