1972 Summer Olympics / Cycling

Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Munich , Starnberg , Grünwald ,
Competition venue	Olympia-Radstadion Grünwald-Rundkurs , Bundesautobahn 95
Nations	54
Athletes	359 (359 )
date	August 29 to September 7, 1972
decisions	7th
← Mexico City 1968 Montréal 1976 →

At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , seven cycling competitions took place from August 29th to September 7th, 1972 . The venue for the track cycling competitions was the Munich Olympic cycling stadium .

Competitions and schedule

Olympic cycling stadium - the venue for track cycling competitions

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qualification

final

Road cycling competitions and schedule
Competitions	August September
	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th
Road Race (182.4 km)
Team time trial (100 km)
Track cycling competitions and schedule
Competitions	August September
	29	30th	31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th
sprint
1000 m time trial
tandem
4000 m single pursuit
4000 m team pursuit

Street

Road Race (182.4 km)

→ Main article : 1972 Summer Olympics / Cycling - road racing (men)

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	NED	Hennie Kuiper	4:14:37
2	OUT	Clyde Sefton	4:15:04
3	-----	not forgiven	-----
4th	NZL	Bruce Biddle	4:15:04
5	GBR	Philip Bayton	4:15:07
6th	GBR	Philip Edwards	4:15:13
7th	FRG	Wilfried Trott	4:15:13
8th	ITA	Francesco Moser	4:15:13

Participants: 163 cyclists from 48 countries
Final on September 7th

Third-placed Jaime Huélamo from Spain was the doping transferred and his medal revoked . This left third place vacant.

Team time trial (100 km)

→ Main article : 1972 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Road Team Time Trial (Men)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	URS	Boris Shukhov Valery Jardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachev	2: 11: 17.8
2	POLE	Lucjan Lis Edward Barcik Stanisław Szozda Ryszard Szurkowski	2: 11: 47.5
3	-----	not forgiven	-----
4th	BEL	Ludo Delcroix Gustaaf Hermans Gustaaf Van Cauter Louis Verreydt	2: 12: 36.7
5	NOR	Thorleif Andresen Arve Haugen Knut Knudsen Magne Orre	2: 13: 20.7
6th	SWE	Lennart Fagerlund Tord Filipsson Leif Hansson Sven-Åke Nilsson	2: 13: 36.9
7th	HUN	Tibor Debreceni Imre Géra József Peterman András Takács	2: 14: 18.8
8th	SUI	Gilbert Bishop Bruno Hubschmid Roland Schär Ueli Sutter	2: 14: 33.6

Participants: 35 teams
Final on August 29th

The third-placed Dutch ( Hertog , Kuiper , Priem and van den Hoek ) were disqualified and their medals revoked because Aad van den Hoek had been doped . This left third place vacant.

train

sprint

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Daniel Morelon
2	OUT	John Nicholson
3	URS	Omar Pchakadze
4th	NED	Klaas Balk
5	NED	Peter van Doorn
	THE	Niels Fredborg
	ITA	Massimo Marino
	GDR	Jürgen Geschke

Participants: 51 sprinters from 30 countries
Final on September 2nd

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	September 2nd
	Morelon	2
					September 2nd
	van Doorn	0
					Morelon	2
					Balk	0
	Gifts	1
									September 2nd
	Balk	2
									Morelon	2
									Nicholson	0
	Nicholson	2
	Fredborg	0
					Nicholson	2			3rd place
					Pchakadze	0
	Pchakadze	2							Balk	1
	Marino	1							Pchakadze	2

1000 m time trial

→ Main article : 1972 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Time Trial Track (Men)

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	THE	Niels Fredborg	1: 06.44
2	OUT	Danny Clark	1: 06.87
3	GDR	Jürgen Schütze	1: 07.02
4th	FRG	Karl Köther	1: 07.21
5	POLE	Janusz Kierzkowski	1: 07.22
6th	BUL	Dimo Angelow	1: 07.55
7th	SUI	Christian Brunner	1: 07.71
8th	URS	Eduard Rapp	1: 07.73

Participants: 32 time trial
final on August 31st

tandem

→ Main article : 1972 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Tandem (men)

space	country	Athletes
1	URS	Vladimir Semenez Igor Zelowalnikow
2	GDR	Jürgen Geschke Werner Otto
3	POLE	Andrzej Bek Benedykt Kocot
4th	FRA	Daniel Morelon Pierre Trentin
5	TCH	Ivan Kucírek Vladimir Popelka
	BEL	Manu Snellinx Noël Soetaert
	FRG	Jürgen Barth Rainer Müller
	NED	Klaas Balk Peter van Doorn

Participants: 14 teams
final on September 4th

4000 m single pursuit

space	country	athlete
1	NOR	Knut Knudsen
2	SUI	Xaver Kurmann
3	FRG	Hans Lutz
4th	OUT	John Christopher Bylsma
5	COL	Luis Diaz
	ITA	Luciano Borgognoni
	ARG	Carlos Miguel Alvarez
	NED	Roy Schuiten

Participants: 28 pursuers
final on September 1st

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	August 31
	Kurmann	4: 50.54
					September 1
	Borgognoni	4: 52.31
					Kurmann	4: 47.04
					Bylsma	4: 47.41
	Bylsma	4: 50.47
									September 1
	Schools	4: 52.16
									Kurmann	4: 51.96
									Knudsen	4: 45.74
	Lutz	4: 56.17
	Alvarez	4: 57.09
					Lutz	caught up			3rd place
					Knudsen	4: 45.57
	Knudsen	4: 47.43							Bylsma	4: 54.93
	Diaz	caught up							Lutz	4: 50.80

4000 m team pursuit

space	country	Athletes
1	FRG	Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel Günther Schumacher Semi-finals: Peter Vonhof
2	GDR	Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter Uwe Unterwalder
3	GBR	Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble William Moore
4th	POLE	Bernard Kręczyński Paweł Kaczorowski Janusz Kierzkowski Mieczysław Nowicki Prelude : Jerzy Glowacki
5	BUL	Nikifor Petrow Plamen Tintchew Dimo Angelow Ivan Stanoew
	SUI	Martin Steger Xaver Kurmann René Savary Christian Brunner
	NED	Ad Dekkers Gerard Kamper Herman Ponsteen Roy Schuiten
	URS	Viktor Bykov Vladimir Kuznetsow Anatoly Stepanenko Alexander Yudin

Participants: 22 teams
final on September 3rd

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	September 2nd
	Society. kingdom	4: 25.23
					September 3
	Netherlands	4: 26.11
					Society. kingdom	caught up
					BR Germany
	BR Germany	4: 24.49
									September 3
	Bulgaria	4: 31.55
									BR Germany	4: 22.14
									GDR	4: 25.25
	Poland	4: 25.72
	Soviet Union	4: 26.75
					Poland	4: 26.39			3rd place
					GDR	4: 23.14
	GDR	4: 23.26							Society. kingdom	4: 23.78
	Switzerland	4: 26.44							Poland	4: 26.06

Medal table

Medal table cycling
space	country
1	Soviet Union	2	-	1	3
2	BR Germany	1	-	1	2
3	Netherlands	1	-	-	1
	France	1	-	-	1
	Denmark	1	-	-	1
	Norway	1	-	-	1
7th	Australia	-	3	-	3
8th	GDR	-	2	1	3
9	Poland	-	1	1	2
10	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
11	Great Britain	-	-	1	1
Total		7th	7th	5	19th

literature

• Kicker-Sportmagazin : Born 1972: Issue No. 69–73, Olympia-Verlag GmbH

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 1972 / Cycling in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schedule and results of the competitions in cycling p.206–220 (PDF; 28.1 MB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 411 .