Cycling at the Friendship Games
The cycling competition at the Friendship Games consisted of two road cycling and five track cycling events (all men's). The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.
Medal summary
[edit]Road cycling
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's road race |  Alexandr Zinovyev (URS) |
4:44.21 |  Uwe Raab (GDR) |
4:44.21 |  Andrzej Mierzejewski (POL) |
4:44.21 |
| Men's team road race | East Germany (GDR) Uwe Ampler Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Mario Kummer |
2:01.35 | Soviet Union (URS) Sergei Navolokin Alexandr Zinovyev Yevgeniy Korolkov Asiat Saitov |
2:01.46 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)Milan Křen Milan Jurčo Vlastibor Konečný Michal Klasa |
2:03.54 |
Track cycling
[edit]| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points race (50 km) |
 Miklós Somogyi (HUN) |
81 points | Martin Penc (TCH) |
77 points | Jonas Romanovas (URS) |
73 points |
| Individual pursuit (4 km) |
Gintautas Umaras (URS) |
4:33.66 | Bernd Dittert (GDR) |
4:33.88 | Ryszard Dawidowicz (POL) |
4:40.21 |
| Team pursuit (4 km) |
East Germany (GDR) Bernd Dittert Mario Hernig Volker Winkler Carsten Wolf Gerald Mortag |
Soviet Union (URS) Marat Ganeyev Aleksandr Krasnov Valery Movchan Vasily Shpundov |
Czechoslovakia (TCH) Teodor Černý František Raboň Aleš Trčka Pavel Soukup František Klouček |
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| Sprint | Lutz Hesslich (GDR) |
Sergei Kopylov (URS) |
Vratislav Šustr (TCH) |
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| 1 km time trial | Sergei Kopylov (URS) |
1:03.56 | Maic Malchov (GDR) |
1:04.17 | Milan Hájek (TCH) |
1:05.67 |
Medal table
[edit]* Host nation (Soviet Union)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS)* | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR)* | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 193–195, 212–213. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
- Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 86–87. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.