Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venues	Amsterdam and surrounding area; Amsterdam Olympic Stadium
Date	4 –6 August 1928
Competitors	149 from 27 nations
	← 1924 1932 →

The cycling competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.^[1] The individual event in road cycling was a time trial over a distance of 168 km; the team competition was decided by aggregating the times of the three fastest riders from each nation. The 50 km track event held in 1920 and 1924 was replaced by a 1 km time trial.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual time trial details	Henry Hansen (DEN)	Frank Southall (GBR)	Gösta Carlsson (SWE)
Team time trial details	Denmark (DEN) Henry Hansen Orla Jørgensen Leo Nielsen	Great Britain (GBR) Jack Lauterwasser John Middleton Frank Southall	Sweden (SWE) Gösta Carlsson Erik Jansson Georg Johnsson

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, Team details	Italy (ITA) Cesare Facciani Giacomo Gaioni Mario Lusiani Luigi Tasselli	Netherlands (NED) Johannes Maas Piet van der Horst Janus Braspennincx Jan Pijnenburg	Great Britain (GBR) George Southall Harry Wyld Leonard Wyld Percy Wyld
Sprint details	Roger Beaufrand (FRA)	Antoine Mazairac (NED)	Willy Hansen (DEN)
Tandem details	Bernhard Leene and Daan van Dijk (NED)	Ernest Chambers and John Sibbit (GBR)	Hans Bernhardt and Karl Köther (GER)
Track time trial details	Willy Hansen (DEN)	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein (NED)	Dunc Gray (AUS)

Participating nations

149 cyclists from 27 nations competed.^[1] Ireland, Spain, and Turkey competed in cycling for the first time.

Argentina (6)
Australia (2)
Austria (2)
Belgium (8)
Canada (6)
Chile (5)
Czechoslovakia (4)
Denmark (5)
Finland (1)

France (8)
Germany (10)
Great Britain (12)
Ireland (2)
Italy (12)
Latvia (5)
Lithuania (4)
Luxembourg (4)
Netherlands (11)

Norway (4)
Poland (11)
South Africa (1)
Spain (1)
Sweden (4)
Switzerland (9)
Turkey (4)
United States (4)
Yugoslavia (4)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Denmark (DEN)	3	0	1	4
2	Netherlands (NED)	1	3	0	4
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
3	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	3	1	4
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
7	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

^ ^a ^b "Cycling at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2014.

External links

"Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 January 2007.

[sports-reference-1] "Cycling at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2014.

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