Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Template:Infobox Olympic Cycling The cycling competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Pierfranco Vianelli  Italy	Leif Mortensen  Denmark	Gösta Pettersson  Sweden
Team time trial	Netherlands (NED) Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen	Sweden (SWE) Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson	Italy (ITA) Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti

Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, Individual	Daniel Rebillard  France	Mogens Jensen  Denmark	Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland
Pursuit, Team	Denmark (DEN) Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen	West Germany (FRG) Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner	Italy (ITA) Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato
Sprint	Daniel Morelon  France	Giurdano Turrini  Italy	Pierre Trentin  France
Tandem	Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin  France	Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Janssen  Netherlands	Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker  Belgium
1000m time trial	Pierre Trentin  France	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski  Poland

Participating nations

329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.

Argentina (9)  Australia (9)  Barbados (4)  Belgium (15)  Belize (2)  Canada (6)  Chinese Taipei (5)  Colombia (10)  Congo-Kinshasa (5)  Costa Rica (5)  Cuba (6)  Czechoslovakia (8)  Denmark (13)

East Germany (10)  Ecuador (4)  El Salvador (5)  Ethiopia (5)  Finland (4)  France (14)  Great Britain (14)  Guatemala (4)  Guyana (1)  Hungary (7)  Iraq (1)  Ireland (3)  Italy (16)

Japan (1)  Lebanon (1)  Luxembourg (1)  Madagascar (1)  Malaysia (2)  Mexico (12)  Netherlands (10)  New Zealand (5)  Norway (6)  Philippines (3)  Poland (10)  Puerto Rico (1)  Romania (1)

San Marino (2)  South Korea (2)  South Vietnam (2)  Soviet Union (15)  Spain (7)  Sweden (6)  Switzerland (4)  Thailand (7)  Trinidad and Tobago (7)  United States (15)  Uruguay (5)  West Germany (14)  Yugoslavia (4)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	4	0	1	5
2	Denmark	1	3	0	4
3	Italy	1	1	2	4
4	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
5	Sweden	0	1	1	2
6	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21