1980 Summer Olympics / Cycling

Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Moscow
Competition venue	Krylatskoje Velodrome Krylatskoje Sports Complex Cycling Circuit
Nations	34
Athletes	230 (230 )
date	July 20-26, 1980
decisions	6th
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At the XXII. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , six cycling competitions took place from July 20-28, 1980 . The venue for the track cycling competitions was the Krylatskoje Velodrome .

Competitions and schedule

Krylatskoye Velodrome - the venue for track cycling competitions

000	Elimination round, round of 16 and quarter-finals

VF

Quarter finals

HF

Semifinals

Semifinals and finals

final

Road cycling competitions and schedule
Competitions	July
	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	27.	28.
Road race (189 km)
Team time trial (101 km)
Track cycling competitions and schedule
Competitions	July
	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	27.	28.
sprint						HF
1000 m time trial
4000 m single pursuit				VF
4000 m team pursuit

Street

Road race (189 km)

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space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	URS	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov	4: 48: 28.9
2	POLE	Czeslaw Lang	4: 51: 26.9
3	URS	Yuri Barinov	4: 51: 26.9
4th	GDR	Thomas Barth	4: 56: 12.9
5	POLE	Tadeusz Wojtas	4: 56: 12.9
6th	URS	Anatoly Jarkin	4: 56: 54.9
7th	NED	Adrie van der Poel	4: 56: 54.9
8th	FRA	Christian Faure	4: 56: 54.9

Participants: 115 cyclists from 32 countries.
Final on July 28th

Team time trial (101 km)

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	URS	Yuri Kaschirin Oleg Logwin Sergei Schelpakow Anatoly Jarkin	2: 01: 21.7
2	GDR	Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Olaf Ludwig Hans-Joachim Hartnick	2: 02: 53.2
3	TCH	Michal Klasa Vlastibor Konečný Alipi Kostadinov Jiří Škoda	2: 02: 53.9
4th	POLE	Stefan Ciekanski Jan Jankiewicz Czesław Lang Witold Plutecki	2: 04: 13.8
5	ITA	Mauro De Pellegrin Gianni Giacomini Ivano Maffei Alberto Minetti	2: 04: 36.2
6th	BUL	Borislav Assenow Wenelin Hubenow Jordan Penchev Nentscho Stajkow	2: 05: 55.2
7th	FIN	Harry Hannus Kari Puisto Patrick Wackström Sixten Wackström	2: 05: 58.2
8th	YUG	Bruno Bulić Vinko Polončič Bojan Ropret Bojan Udovič	2: 07: 12.0

Participants: 23 teams
Final on July 20th
The team time trial was held on the Moscow – Minsk motorway. The route length was 101 km. The USSR team was in the front in all intermediate times (25, 50 and 75 km) and in the end won with an hourly average of 49.933 km / h and 1:32 minutes ahead of the GDR. For the USSR it was the third Olympic gold in a row in this discipline. The ČSSR team won the bronze medal and was only 0.7 seconds behind the GDR. Italy was fourth and Bulgaria fifth.

train

sprint

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Lutz Heßlich
2	FRA	Yave Cahard
3	URS	Sergei Kopylov
4th	TCH	Anton Tkáč
5	THE	Henrik Salée
6th	SUI	Heinz Isler
7th	OUT	Kenrick Tucker
8th	ITA	Ottavio Dazzan

Participants: 18 sprinters from 18 countries
Final on July 26th

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	24th July
	Ugly	2
					July 25th
	Salée	0
					Ugly	2
					Kopylov	0
	Kopylov	2
									July 26th
	Dazzan	0
									Ugly	2
									Cahard	1
	Tkáč	2
	Tucker	0
					Tkáč	1			3rd place
					Cahard	2
	Cahard	2							Kopylov	2
	Isler	0							Tkáč	0

1000 m time trial

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GDR	Lothar Thoms	1: 02.955
2	URS	Alexander Panfilov	1: 04.845
3	JAM	David Weller	1: 05.241
4th	ITA	Guido Bontempi	1: 05.478
5	FRA	Yave Cahard	1: 05.584
6th	SUI	Heinz Isler	1: 06.263
7th	TCH	Petr Kocek	1: 06.368
8th	THE	Bjarne Sørensen	1: 07.422

Participants: 19 time trialists from 19 countries.
Final on July 22nd

4000 m single pursuit

space	country	athlete
1	SUI	Robert Dill-Bundi
2	FRA	Alain Bondue
3	THE	Hans-Henrik Ørsted
4th	GDR	Harald Wolf
5	URS	Vladimir Ossokin
6th	GBR	Sean Yates
7th	ITA	Pierangelo Bincoletto
8th	TCH	Martin Penc

Participants: 14 pursuers from 14 countries.
Final on July 24th

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	July 23
	Dill Bundi	4: 34.92
					24th July
	Ossokin	4: 38.17
					Dill Bundi	4: 32.29
					Ørsted	4: 36.85
	Ørsted	4: 38.42
									24th July
	Yates	4: 41.39
									Dill Bundi	4: 35.66
									Bondue	4: 42.96
	Bondue	4: 36.27
	Bincoletto	4: 43.84
					Bondue	4: 36.23			3rd place
					wolf	4: 40.10
	wolf	4: 37.18							Ørsted	4: 36.54
	Penc	4: 47.87							wolf	4: 37.38

4000 m team pursuit

space	country	Athletes
1	URS	Viktor Manakow Valeri Mowchan Vladimir Ossokin Vitali Petrakow to semi-finals: Alexander Krasnow
2	GDR	Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler
3	TCH	Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma
4th	ITA	Pierangelo Bincoletto Guido Bontempi Ivano Maffei Silvestro Milani
5	FRA	Alain Bondue Philippe Chevalier Pascal Poisson Jean-Marc Rebière
6th	OUT	Colin Fitzgerald Kevin Nichols Kelvin Poole Gary Sutton
7th	GBR	Tony Doyle Malcolm Elliott Glen Mitchell Sean Yates
8th	SUI	Robert Dill-Bundi Urs Freuler Hans Känel Hans Ledermann

Participants: 13 teams
final on July 26th

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	July 25th
	Czechoslovakia	4: 18.48
					July 26th
	Society. kingdom	4: 23.45
					Czechoslovakia	4: 32.68
					Soviet Union	4: 26.52
	Soviet Union	4: 14.64
									July 26th
	Australia	4: 22.02
									Soviet Union	4: 15.70
									GDR	4: 19.67
	Italy	4: 18.27
	France	4: 18.58
					Italy	4: 20.13			3rd place
					GDR	4: 18.16
	GDR	4: 17.43							Czechoslovakia
	Switzerland	4: 23.56							Italy	DISQ

Medal table

Medal table cycling
space	country
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6th
2	GDR	2	2	-	4th
3	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
4th	France	-	2	-	2
5	Poland	-	1	-	1
6th	Czechoslovakia	-	-	2	2
8th	Jamaica	-	-	1	1
	Denmark	-	-	1	1
Total		6th	6th	6th	18th

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport80. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 298 .
• New Germany . No. 170-177 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1980, ISSN  0323-3375 .
• German cycling federation of the GDR (Hrsg.): The cyclist. "Like 1960: GDR defeated only by the host" . July 1980, p. 1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schedule and results of the competitions, pp.198–213 (PDF; 27.59 MB)

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 1980 / cycling in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )