Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Cycling

at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad

Venues| Artesia Freeway, Streets of Mission Viejo
Olympic Velodrome
Date| July 29–August 3, 1984
Competitors| 359 from 54 nations

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The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.[1]

## Road cycling

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Men's team time trial (Team USA)

### Men's events

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Road race
details | Alexi Grewal
United States | Steve Bauer
Canada | Dag Otto Lauritzen
Norway
Team time trial
details |  Italy (ITA)
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli |  Switzerland (SUI)
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss |  United States (USA)
Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver

### Women's events

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Road race
details | Connie Carpenter
United States | Rebecca Twigg
United States | Sandra Schumacher
West Germany

## Track cycling

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Points race
details | Roger Ilegems
Belgium | Uwe Messerschmidt
West Germany | José Youshimatz
Mexico
Pursuit, individual
details | Steve Hegg
United States | Rolf Gölz
West Germany | Leonard Nitz
United States
Pursuit, team
details |  Australia (AUS)
Michael Grenda
Kevin Nichols
Michael Turtur
Dean Woods |  United States (USA)
David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Nitz
Brent Emery |  West Germany (FRG)
Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Sprint
details | Mark Gorski
United States | Nelson Vails
United States | Tsutomu Sakamoto
Japan
1 km time trial
details | Fredy Schmidtke
West Germany | Curt Harnett
Canada | Fabrice Colas
France

## Participating nations

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359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]

*  Antigua and Barbuda (3)
*  Argentina (8)
*  Australia (12)
*  Austria (9)
*  Barbados (1)
*  Belgium (8)
*  Belize (6)
*  Bermuda (3)
*  Brazil (7)
*  Cameroon (5)
*  Canada (13)
*  Cayman Islands (6)
*  Chile (7)
*  China (7)

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*  Chinese Taipei (2)
*  Colombia (7)
*  Cyprus (1)
*  Denmark (13)
*  Fiji (1)
*  Finland (5)
*  France (17)
*  Great Britain (16)
*  Greece (2)
*  Guatemala (1)
*  Guyana (3)
*  Hong Kong (4)
*  Ireland (5)

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*  Italy (21)
*  Jamaica (5)
*  Japan (9)
*  Lebanon (1)
*  Malaysia (1)
*  Malawi (4)
*  Mexico (8)
*  Morocco (4)
*  Netherlands (16)
*  New Zealand (7)
*  Norway (10)
*  Peru (1)
*  Philippines (4)
*  Puerto Rico (1)

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*  San Marino (1)
*  Saudi Arabia (6)
*  South Korea (10)
*  Spain (4)
*  Sweden (11)
*  Switzerland (12)
*  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
*  Uganda (2)
*  Uruguay (1)
*  United States (20)
*  Venezuela (2)
*  West Germany (20)
*  Yugoslavia (6)

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## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States| 4| 3| 2| 9
2|  West Germany| 1| 2| 2| 5
3|  Australia| 1| 0| 0| 1
Belgium| 1| 0| 0| 1
Italy| 1| 0| 0| 1
6|  Canada| 0| 2| 0| 2
7|  Switzerland| 0| 1| 0| 1
8|  France| 0| 0| 1| 1
Japan| 0| 0| 1| 1
Mexico| 0| 0| 1| 1
Norway| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (11 entries)| 8| 8| 8| 24

## See also

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* Cycling at the Friendship Games

## References

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1. ^ a b "Cycling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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