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Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

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Cycling – Men's individual road race
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
The French team: Robert Charpentier, Guy Lapébie, Jean Goujon, Robert Dorgebray
VenueAvus North Curve, Berlin
Date10 August 1936
Competitors99 from 28 nations
Winning time2:33:05.0
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Robert Charpentier
 France
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Guy Lapébie
 France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ernst Nievergelt
 Switzerland
← 1896
1948 →

The men's individual road race cycling event at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place on 10 August over 100 km. Ninety-nine cyclists from 28 nations competed.[1] This was the first time that the cycling road race was conducted as a mass start event since 1896 and was one of six cycling events at the 1936 Olympics.[2] The men's team road race was held in conjunction with this event, with teams having four riders and the team time taken as sum of the team's three best finishers.[2] The individual event was won by Robert Charpentier of France, with his teammate Guy Lapébie in second. Ernst Nievergelt of Switzerland took bronze. They were the first men's mass-start road race medals for both nations, which had not competed in 1896.

Background

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This was the second appearance of the event, previously held in 1896; it would be held at every Summer Olympics after 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). French cyclist Robert Charpentier was the runner-up in the 1935 UCI Road World Championships. Three-speed bikes were innovative at the time, with many riders adopting them.[1]

Germany and Great Britain made their second appearances in the event; the other 26 nations competing in 1936 each made their debut.

Competition format and course

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The race was on a course that covered 100 kilometres, starting and finishing at the North Curve of the Avus motor racing circuit. It followed "relatively flat roads," with elevation shifts limited to between 32 and 80 metres above sea level and the steepest grade at 46.1 metres per kilometre.[1][3]

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Monday, 10 August 1936 8:00 Final

Results

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Some of the cyclists with unknown times may not have finished.[1]

Rank Cyclist National Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Robert Charpentier  France 2:33:05.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Guy Lapébie  France 2:33:05.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ernst Nievergelt  Switzerland 2:33:05.8
4 Fritz Scheller  Germany 2:33:06.0
Charles Holland  Great Britain 2:33:06.0
Robert Dorgebray  France 2:33:06.0
7 Pierino Favalli  Italy 2:33:06.2
8 Auguste Garrebeek  Belgium 2:33:06.6
Armand Putzeyse  Belgium 2:33:06.6
Talat Tunçalp  Turkey 2:33:06.6
11 Edgar Buchwalder  Switzerland 2:33:07.0
12 Frode Sørensen  Denmark 2:33:07.2
August Prosenik  Yugoslavia 2:33:07.2
14 Kurt Ott  Switzerland 2:33:07.6
15 Glauco Servadei  Italy 2:33:07.8
16 Tassy Johnson  Australia 2:33:08.0
Virgilius Altmann  Austria 2:33:08.0
Hans Höfner  Austria 2:33:08.0
Eugen Schnalek  Austria 2:33:08.0
Jean-François Van Der Motte  Belgium 2:33:08.0
Kanyo Dzhambazov  Bulgaria 2:33:08.0
Arne Petersen  Denmark 2:33:08.0
Thor Porko  Finland 2:33:08.0
Jean Goujon  France 2:33:08.0
János Bognár  Hungary 2:33:08.0
István Liszkay  Hungary 2:33:08.0
Corrado Ardizzoni  Italy 2:33:08.0
Jacques Majerus  Luxembourg 2:33:08.0
Franz Neuens  Luxembourg 2:33:08.0
Nico van Gageldonk  Netherlands 2:33:08.0
Wacław Starzyński  Poland 2:33:08.0
Stanisław Zieliński  Poland 2:33:08.0
Hennie Binneman  South Africa 2:33:08.0
Gottlieb Weber  Switzerland 2:33:08.0
Arne Berg  Sweden 2:33:08.0
Josef Lošek  Czechoslovakia 2:33:08.0
Franc Gartner  Yugoslavia 2:33:08.0
39–94 Mārtiņš Mazūrs  Latvia 2:37:08.0
Arvīds Immermanis  Latvia 2:52:08.0
Aleksejs Jurjevs  Latvia 2:52:08.0
Jānis Vītols  Latvia 2:52:08.0
Chris Wheeler  Australia Unknown
Karl Kühn  Austria Unknown
Jef Lowagie  Belgium Unknown
Dertônio Ferrer  Brazil Unknown
José Magnani  Brazil Unknown
Hermógenes Netto  Brazil Unknown
Nikola Nenov  Bulgaria Unknown
Aleksandar Nikolov  Bulgaria Unknown
Gennadi Simov  Bulgaria Unknown
Lionel Coleman  Canada Unknown
George Crompton  Canada Unknown
Rusty Peden  Canada Unknown
George Turner  Canada Unknown
Jesús Chousal  Chile Unknown
Jorge Guerra  Chile Unknown
Rafael Montero  Chile Unknown
Manuel Riquelme  Chile Unknown
Knud Jacobsen  Denmark Unknown
Tage Møller  Denmark Unknown
Tauno Lindgren  Finland Unknown
Jackie Bone  Great Britain Unknown
Willi Meurer  Germany Unknown
Fritz Ruland  Germany Unknown
Emil Schöpflin  Germany Unknown
István Adorján  Hungary Unknown
Károly Nemes-Nótás  Hungary Unknown
Elio Bavutti  Italy Unknown
Adolf Schreiber  Liechtenstein Unknown
Paul Frantz  Luxembourg Unknown
Rudy Houtsch  Luxembourg Unknown
René van Hove  Netherlands Unknown
George Giles  New Zealand Unknown
Manuel Bacigalupo  Peru Unknown
Gregorio Caloggero  Peru Unknown
José Mazzini  Peru Unknown
César Peñaranda  Peru Unknown
Mieczysław Kapiak  Poland Unknown
Wiktor Olecki  Poland Unknown
Ted Clayton  South Africa Unknown
Berndt Carlsson  Sweden Unknown
Ingvar Ericsson  Sweden Unknown
Vilém Jakl  Czechoslovakia Unknown
Hans Leutelt  Czechoslovakia Unknown
Miloslav Loos  Czechoslovakia Unknown
Kirkor Canbazyan  Turkey Unknown
Kazım Bingen  Turkey Unknown
Orhan Suda  Turkey Unknown
Albert Byrd  United States Unknown
Charles Morton  United States Unknown
Paul Nixon  United States Unknown
John Sinibaldi  United States Unknown
Josip Pokupec  Yugoslavia Unknown
Ivan Valant  Yugoslavia Unknown
Bill Messer  Great Britain DNF
Alick Bevan  Great Britain DNF
Gerrit Schulte  Netherlands DNF
Philippus Vethaak  Netherlands DNF
Sven Johansson  Sweden DNF

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Road Race, Individual, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Cycling at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Road Race, Individual". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 932.