1960 Summer Olympics / Cycling

Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Rome
Competition venue	Velodromo Olimpico Grottarossa Circuit , Via Cristoforo Colombo
Nations	48
Athletes	297 (297 )
date	August 26-29, 1960
decisions	6th
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At the XVII. Six cycling competitions were held at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome .

train

The railway competitions were held on the newly built Velodromo Olimpico in the EUR district. The Velodrome was built by Cesare Lingini , Dagoberto Ortensi and Silvano Ricci for the Olympic Games and held 17,600 spectators. The plans for the wooden railway came from the Münster specialist Herbert Schürmann .

sprint

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Sante Gaiardoni
2	BEL	Leo Sterckx
3	ITA	Valentino Gasparella

Semi-finals and finals on August 29th from 8.45pm

1000 m time trial

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Sante Gaiardoni	1: 07.27 min ( WR )
2	EUA	Dieter Gieseler	1: 08.75 min
3	URS	Rostislav Wargashkin	1: 08.86 min

Final on August 26th

tandem

space	country	Athletes
1	ITA	Giuseppe Beghetto / Sergio Bianchetto
2	EUA	Jürgen Simon / Lothar Stäber
3	URS	Vladimir Leonov / Boris Wassiljew

Semi-finals and finals on August 27th from 8.45pm

4000 m team pursuit

space	country	Athletes
1	ITA	Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto Marino Vigna
2	EUA	Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme Siegfried Koehler
3	URS	Arnold Belgard Stanislaw Moskvin Leonid Columbet Viktor Romanov

Final on August 29th

Street

Road race (175.3 km)

→ Main article : 1960 Summer Olympics / Cycling - road racing (men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Viktor Kapitonov	4:20:37 h
2	ITA	Livio Trapè	4:20:37 h
3	BEL	Willy Vanden Berghen	4:20:57 h

Start on August 30th at 9.00 a.m.
There were 12 laps to be covered on a 14.615 km long circuit in the Flaminio district. Trapè and Kapitonow broke away from the leading group four laps before the end. Kapitonow started a sprint after eleven laps and crossed the finish line jubilantly, one lap early. But even one lap later he was able to beat Trapè by the width of a tire.

Team time trial (100 km)

space	country	Athletes	time
1	ITA	Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni Livio Trapè	2: 14: 33.53 h
2	EUA	Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke Gustav-Adolf Schur	2: 16: 56.31 h
3	URS	Viktor Kapitonow Yevgeny Klewzow Yuri Melichow Alexei Petrov	2: 18: 41.67 h

Start on August 26th at 9.00 a.m.
Start and finish were opposite the Velodrome. Three times there were 16.6 kilometers there and back on the Viale Cristofero Colombo motorway towards the Tyrrhenian Sea. During the race, the thermometer rose to 40 ° in the shade, with little shade to be found on the highway. The time of the third driver of each team was counted for the placement.

In the third lap, the Danish four gave up after Knud Enemark Jensen fell unconscious from his bike. Jensen died in hospital, the cause of death was given as a brain injury that Jensen sustained in a fall as a result of heat stroke. It was found that Jensen had taken methamphetamine and pyridile carbinol .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• 1960 Summer Olympics / Cycling in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )