Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The cycling competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The 2000m tandem event, contested at the previous 13 Games since 1908, was dropped from the Olympic cycling program.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Bernt Johansson  Sweden	Giuseppe Martinelli  Italy	Mieczysław Nowicki  Poland
Team time trial	Soviet Union (URS) Aavo Pikkuus Valery Chaplygin Anatoly Chukanov Vladimir Kaminsky	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Tadeusz Mytnik Mieczysław Nowicki Stanisław Szozda	Denmark (DEN) Jørn Lund Verner Blaudzun Gert Frank Jørgen Hansen
1000m time trial	Klaus-Jürgen Grünke  East Germany	Michel Vaarten  Belgium	Niels Fredborg  Denmark
Sprint	Anton Tkáč  Czechoslovakia	Daniel Morelon  France	Jürgen Geschke  East Germany
Individual pursuit	Gregor Braun  West Germany	Herman Ponsteen  Netherlands	Thomas Huschke  East Germany
Team pursuit	West Germany (FRG) Peter Vonhof Gregor Braun Hans Lutz Günther Schumacher	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Sokolov Vladimir Osokin Aleksandr Perov Vitaly Petrakov	Great Britain (GBR) Ian Hallam Ian Banbury Michael Bennett Robin Croker

Medal table

1	West Germany	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
3	East Germany	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
6	Poland	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark	0	0	2	2
12	Great Britain	0	0	1	1

References

• Official Olympic Report