Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Template:Infobox Olympic Cycling The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.[1] The event was marked by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race |
Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union
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Livio Trapè Italy
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Willy van den Berghen Belgium
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| Time trial, team |
 Italy (ITA)Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni |
 United Team of Germany (EUA)Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke |
 Soviet Union (URS)Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov |
Track cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pursuit, team |
Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto |
United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme |
Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin |
| Sprint |
Sante Gaiardoni Italy
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Leo Sterckx Belgium
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Valentino Gasparella Italy
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| Tandem |
Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto Italy
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Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber  United Team of Germany
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Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev Soviet Union
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| 1000m time trial |
Sante Gaiardoni Italy
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Dieter Gieseler United Team of Germany
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Rostislav Vargashkin Soviet Union
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Participating nations
297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
| 1 | Italy |
5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union |
1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | United Team of Germany |
0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |  Belgium |
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
References
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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