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Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

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Men's cycling road race
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Viktor Kapitonov
VenueGrottarossa Circuit, Rome
175.38 km (109.0 mi)
Date30 August 1960
Competitors142 from 42 nations
Winning time4:20:37
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Kapitonov
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Livio Trapè
 Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Willy Vanden Berghen
 Belgium
← 1956
1964 →

The men's individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, was held on 30 August 1960. There were 142 participants from 42 nations. Each nation could enter up to four cyclists. Of the 142 starters 76 rode the distance to the end.[1] The event was won by Viktor Kapitonov of the Soviet Union, the nation's first medal in the event. Livio Trapè of Italy took silver, putting that country on the podium for the second consecutive Games. Willy Vanden Berghen's bronze gave Belgium its fourth medal in four Games (one in 1948, two in 1952, none in 1956).

Background

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This was the sixth appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932 (and which would be reintroduced alongside the road race in 1996). The favorites were the German riders Gustav-Adolf Schur (1958 and 1959 world champion) and Bernhard Eckstein (1960 world champion).[2]

For the first time since the reintroduction of the event in 1936, there was no corresponding team event (it had been replaced by a separate team time trial). The Danish riders entered in the individual event withdrew after the death of Knud Enemark Jensen in the team time trial.

The British West Indies, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Tunisia each made their debut in the men's individual road race; East and West Germany competed as the United Team of Germany. Great Britain made its sixth appearance in the event, the only nation to have competed in each appearance to date.

Competition format and course

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The mass-start race was on a course that covered 12 laps of a 14.615 kilometres circuit known as the "Grottarossa Circuit," for a total of 175.38 kilometres. The course ran along the Via Flaminia, the Via Di Grottarossa, and the Via Cassia. Each lap included "a slightly steep climb, and a series of switchbacks, just after the 6 km. point, and then ascended gently for the next 2½ km."[2][3]

Schedule

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All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

The day was hot, despite the morning start, with temperatures at 38 degrees Celsius.

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 30 August 1960 9:00 Final

Results

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The first break was by van Kreuningen in lap 2. He led by himself until lap 5 when his teammate Hugens joined him. In lap 7, however, the pair was caught by a pack of seven cyclists. Additional cyclists moved up into the lead group in laps 7 and 8. The next significant breakaway from that bunch was by Trapè and Kapitonov in lap 10. Kapitonov broke into a sprint to finish lap 11, apparently confused as to how many laps had been completed. Trapè caught up to him, with a large (39 cyclists) chase pack bearing down on the pair in the actual final lap, lap 12. Kapitonov successfully repeated his sprint to beat Trapè, and the chase pack ultimately did not come within 20 seconds of the pair.[2]

The Official Report lists only the finishers, requiring historians to put together a list of non-finishers from other sources. Further, the finish-line judge left to have lunch and the placement of the finishers is suspect based on photographs and personal reports from the cyclists.[2]

Rank Cyclist Nation Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Kapitonov  Soviet Union 4:20:37
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Livio Trapè  Italy 4:20:37
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Willy Vanden Berghen  Belgium 4:20:57
4 Yury Melikhov  Soviet Union 4:20:57
5 Ion Cosma  Romania 4:20:57
6 Stanisław Gazda  Poland 4:20:57
7 Benoni Beheyt  Belgium 4:20:57
8 Janez Žirovnik  Yugoslavia 4:20:57
9 Jacques Gestraut  France 4:20:57
10 Antonio Bailetti  Italy 4:20:57
11 Bogusław Fornalczyk  Poland 4:20:57
12 Erwin Jaisli  Switzerland 4:20:57
13 Roland Lacombe  France 4:20:57
14 Roby Hentges  Luxembourg 4:20:57
15 François Hamon  France 4:20:57
16 José Antonio Momeñe  Spain 4:20:57
17 Paul Nyman  Finland 4:20:57
18 Jim Hinds  Great Britain 4:20:57
19 Giuseppe Tonucci  Italy 4:20:57
20 Egon Adler  United Team of Germany 4:20:57
21 Erich Hagen  United Team of Germany 4:20:57
22 Bernhard Eckstein  United Team of Germany 4:20:57
23 Gustav-Adolf Schur  United Team of Germany 4:20:57
24 Michael Hiltner  United States 4:20:57
25 René Andring  Luxembourg 4:20:57
26 Gunnar Göransson  Sweden 4:20:57
27 Rubén Darío Gómez  Colombia 4:20:57
28 Hernán Medina  Colombia 4:20:57
29 Arsenio Chirinos  Venezuela 4:20:57
30 Ivan Levačić  Yugoslavia 4:20:57
31 Nevenko Valčić  Yugoslavia 4:20:57
32 Emil Beeler  Switzerland 4:20:57
33 Yevgeny Klevtsov  Soviet Union 4:20:57
34 Gainan Saidkhuzhin  Soviet Union 4:20:57
35 Arnold Ruiner  Austria 4:20:57
36 Bill Bradley  Great Britain 4:20:57
37 William Holmes  Great Britain 4:20:57
38 Jan Hugens  Netherlands 4:20:57
39 Henry Ohayon  Israel 4:20:57
40 Salvatore Palmucci  San Marino 4:20:57
41 Paul Camilleri  Malta 4:20:57
42 Kurt Postl  Austria 4:21:58
43 Frank Brazier  Australia 4:21:58
44 Ricardo Senn  Argentina 4:21:58
45 Mohamed Ben Mohamed  Morocco 4:21:58
46 Mohamed Ghandora  Morocco 4:21:58
47 Osvald Johansson  Sweden 4:21:58
48 Ramón Hoyos  Colombia 4:21:58
49 Robert Lelangue  Belgium 4:22:02
50 Raymond Reaux  France 4:23:57
51 Roger Thull  Luxembourg 4:25:34
52 Stoyan Georgiev Demirev  Bulgaria 4:25:44
53 Ken Laidlaw  Great Britain 4:25:44
54 Jan Chtiej  Poland 4:25:44
55 Raimo Honkanen  Finland 4:25:44
56 Ignacio Astigarraga  Spain 4:25:44
57 Abdallah Lahoucine  Morocco 4:25:44
58 Jan Janssen  Netherlands 4:26:05
59 Unto Hautalahti  Finland 4:26:05
60 Matti Herronen  Finland 4:26:05
61 Luis Zárate  Mexico 4:26:05
62 Emilio Vidal  Venezuela 4:26:05
63 José Ferreira  Venezuela 4:28:24
64 Lars Zebroski  United States 4:28:40
65 Max Wechsler  Switzerland 4:28:40
66 Wes Chowen  United States 4:31:12
67 Alan Grindal  Australia 4:31:12
68 Jacinto Brito  Mexico 4:31:12
69 Alojz Bajc  Yugoslavia 4:31:12
70 Fritz Inthaler  Austria 4:31:23
71 Per Digerud  Norway 4:31:23
72 Hubert Bächli  Switzerland 4:31:37
73 Owe Adamson  Sweden 4:31:37
74 Mohamed Touati  Tunisia 4:35:56
75 Bob Tetzlaff  United States 4:35:56
76 Gheorghe Calcişcă  Romania 4:40:29
Garry Jones  Australia DNF
Robert Whetters  Australia DNF
Kurt Schweiger  Austria DNF
Joseph Geurts  Belgium DNF
Dimitar Kotev  Bulgaria DNF
Boyan Kotsev  Bulgaria DNF
Ognyan Toshev  Bulgaria DNF
Luigi Bartesaghi  Canada DNF
Alessandro Messina  Canada DNF
Pablo Hurtado  Colombia DNF
Juan Sánchez  Spain DNF
Ventura Díaz  Spain DNF
Kouflu Alazar  Ethiopia DNF
Guremu Demboba  Ethiopia DNF
Amousse Tessema  Ethiopia DNF
Megra Admassou  Ethiopia DNF
Ferenc Stámusz  Hungary DNF
János Dévai  Hungary DNF
Ferenc Horváth  Hungary DNF
Győző Török  Hungary DNF
Hendrik Brocks  Indonesia DNF
Rusli Hamsjin  Indonesia DNF
Theo Polhaupessy  Indonesia DNF
Sanusi  Indonesia DNF
Peter Crinnion  Ireland DNF
Sonny Cullen  Ireland DNF
Séamus Herron  Ireland DNF
Mahmood Munim  Iraq DNF
Hamid Oraibi  Iraq DNF
Itzhak Ben David  Israel DNF
Vendramino Bariviera  Italy DNF
Masashi Omiya  Japan DNF
Jo Jae-hyeon  South Korea DNF
Lee Seung-hun  South Korea DNF
Pak Jong-hyeon  South Korea DNF
No Do-cheon  South Korea DNF
Adolf Heeb  Liechtenstein DNF
Louis Grisius  Luxembourg DNF
Ahmed Omar  Morocco DNF
Mauricio Mata  Mexico DNF
Filiberto Mercado  Mexico DNF
John Bugeja  Malta DNF
Joseph Polidano  Malta DNF
René Lotz  Netherlands DNF
Lex van Kreuningen  Netherlands DNF
Wiesław Podobas  Poland DNF
Ramiro Martins  Portugal DNF
José Pacheco  Portugal DNF
Mário Silva  Portugal DNF
Francisco Valada  Portugal DNF
Gabriel Moiceanu  Romania DNF
Aurel Şelaru  Romania DNF
Domenico Cecchetti  San Marino DNF
Sante Ciacci  San Marino DNF
Vito Corbelli  San Marino DNF
Maurice Coomarawel  Ceylon DNF
Gösta Pettersson  Sweden DNF
Ali Ben Ali  Tunisia DNF
Mohamed El-Kemissi  Tunisia DNF
Bechir Mardassi  Tunisia DNF
Rubén Etchebarne  Uruguay DNF
Rodolfo Rodino  Uruguay DNF
Juan José Timón  Uruguay DNF
Alberto Velázquez  Uruguay DNF
Francisco Mujica  Venezuela DNF
Clyde Rimple  British West Indies DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's Road Race, Individual". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Road Race, Individual, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 318.