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Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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Olympic Velodrome in Krylatskoye

Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics was split into two categories: Road and Track. 6 events were contested (all for men). All 4 events of the track cycling were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). 100 km team time trial event was held along the Moscow-Minsk highway. It started from 23rd kilometre off Moscow, had a turning point at 73.5 kilometre off Moscow and finished not far from the starting point. Individual road race event (14 laps, 189 kilometres total) was held at the Olympic Cycling Circuit of the Trade Unions Olympic Centre.

Medals

1  Soviet Union 3 1 2 6
2  East Germany 2 2 0 4
3  Switzerland 1 0 0 1
4  France 0 2 0 2
5  Poland 0 1 0 1
6  Czechoslovakia 0 0 2 2
7  Denmark 0 0 1 1
 Jamaica 0 0 1 1

Track cycling events

Men's Individual Time Trial

Final
Rank
Name Country Time
1 Lothar Thoms  East Germany 1'02"955 (OR, WR)
2 Aleksandr Panfilov  Soviet Union 1'04"845
3 David Weller  Jamaica 1'05"241
4 Guido Bontempi  Italy 1'05"478
5 Yave Cahard  France 1'05"584
6 Heinz lsler  Switzerland 1'06"273

Men's Sprint

Final
Rank
Name Country
1 Lutz Heßlich  East Germany
2 Yave Cahard  France
3 Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union
4 Anton Tkáč  Czechoslovakia
5 Henrik Salee  Denmark
6 Heinz lsler  Switzerland

Men's Individual Pursuit

Final
Rank
Name Country Time
1 Robert Dill-Bundi  Switzerland 4'35"66
2 Alain Bondue  France 4'42"96
3 Hans-Henrik Ørsted  Denmark 4'36"54
4 Harald Wolf  East Germany
5 Vladimir Osokin  Soviet Union
6 Sean Yates  Great Britain

Men's Team Pursuit

Final
Rank
Name Country Time
1 Viktor Manakov, Valery Movchan, Vladimir Osokin and Vitaly Petrakov  Soviet Union 4'15"70
2 Gerald Mortag, Uwe Unterwalder, Matthias Wiegand and Volker Winkler  East Germany 4'19"67
3 Teodor Černý, Martin Penc, Jiří Pokorný, Igor Sláma  Czechoslovakia
4 Pierangelo Bincoletto, Guido Bontempi, lvano Maffei and Silvestro Milani  Italy
5 Alain Bondue, Philippe Chevalier, Pascal Poisson and Jean-Marc Rebière  France
6 Colin Fitzgerald, Kevin Nichols, Kelvin Poole and Gary Sutton  Australia

Road cycling events

Final
Rank
Name Country Time
1 Sergei Sukhoruchenkov  Soviet Union 4h48'28"9
2 Czesław Lang  Poland + 2'58"0
3 Yury Barinov  Soviet Union Group
4 Thomas Barth  East Germany + 7'44"0
5 Tadeusz Wojtas  Poland Group
6 Anatoly Yarkin  Soviet Union + 8'26"0

Men's Team Time Trial

Final
Rank
Name Country Time
1 Yury Kashirin, Oleg Logvin, Sergei Shelpakov and Anatoly Yarkin  Soviet Union 2h01'21"7
2 Falk Boden, Bernd Drogan, Olaf Ludwig and Hans-Joachim Hartnick  East Germany 2h02'53"2
3 Michal Klasa, Vlastibor Konečný, Alipi Kostadinov and Jiří Škoda  Czechoslovakia 2h02'53"9
4 Stefan Ciekanski, Jan Jankiewicz, Czesław Lang and Witold Plutecki  Poland 2h04'13"8
5 Mauro de Pellegrin, Gianni Giacomini, lvano Maffei and Alberto Minetti  Italy 2h04'36"2
6 Borislav Assenov, Venelin Khoubenov, Yordan Pentchev and Nentcha Staikov  Bulgaria 2h05'55"2

References

Remark: country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.