Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the XX Olympiad
	Cycling pictogram
Venues	Grünwald; Bundesautobahn 96; Radstadion
Date	29 August – 4 September 1972
Competitors	359 from 54 nations
	← 1968 1976 →

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.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Hennie Kuiper Netherlands	Clyde Sefton Australia	no medal awarded ^[2]
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 ^[3]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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
Sprint details	Daniel Morelon France	John Nicholson Australia	Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union
Tandem details	Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union	Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto East Germany	Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot Poland
Time trial details	Niels Fredborg Denmark	Danny Clark Australia	Jürgen Schütze East Germany

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.^[1]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	0	1	3
2	West Germany	1	0	1	2
3	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
7	Australia	0	3	0	3
8	East Germany	0	2	1	3
9	Poland	0	1	1	2
10	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
11	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	5	19

^ ^a ^b "Cycling at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
^ Jaime Huelamo
Spain was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher Bruce Biddle
New Zealand 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.