Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.

Medal table

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Hennie Kuiper Netherlands	Clyde Sefton Australia	no medal awarded ^[1]
Team time trial details	Soviet Union (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda	no medal awarded ^[2]
1000m time trial details	Niels Fredborg Denmark	Daniel Clark Australia	Jürgen Schütze East Germany
Sprint details	Daniel Morelon France	John Nicholson Australia	Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union
Tandem details	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Semenets Igor Tselovalnykov	East Germany (GDR) Jürgen Geschke Werner Otto	Poland (POL) Andrzej Bek Benedykt Kocot
Individual pursuit details	Knut Knudsen Norway	Xaver Kurmann Switzerland	Hans Lutz West Germany
Team pursuit details	West Germany (FRG) Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel	East Germany (GDR) Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter	Great Britain (GBR) William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble

^ Jaime Huelamo (ESP) was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle (NZL) was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs.
^ Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.