Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad | |
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The Seoul Olympic Velodrome in 2008 | |
Venues | Tongillo Road Course Seoul Olympic Velodrome |
Date | 8–24 September 1988 |
Competitors | 422 from 62 nations |
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The cycling competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul consisted of two different categories: road cycling and track cycling. Nine events were contested, including the first women's sprint event at the Olympics.[1]
Road cycling
Men's
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Road race details | Olaf Ludwig East Germany | Bernd Gröne West Germany | Christian Henn West Germany |
Team time trial details | East Germany (GDR) Jan Schur Uwe Ampler Mario Kummer Maik Landsmann | Poland (POL) Andrzej Sypytkowski Joachim Halupczok Zenon Jaskuła Marek Leśniewski | Sweden (SWE) Michel Lafis Anders Jarl Björn Johansson Jan Karlsson |
Women's
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Road race details | Monique Knol Netherlands | Jutta Niehaus West Germany | Laima Zilporite Soviet Union |
Track cycling
Men's
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Points race details | Dan Frost Denmark | Leo Peelen Netherlands | Marat Ganeyev Soviet Union |
Individual pursuit details | Gintautas Umaras Soviet Union | Dean Woods Australia | Bernd Dittert East Germany |
Team pursuit details | Soviet Union (URS) Viatcheslav Ekimov Artūras Kasputis Dmitry Nelyubin Gintautas Umaras | East Germany (GDR) Carsten Wolf Steffen Blochwitz Roland Hennig Dirk Meier | Australia (AUS) Scott McGrory Dean Woods Brett Dutton Wayne McCarney Stephen McGlede |
Sprint details | Lutz Heßlich East Germany | Nikolay Kovsh Soviet Union | Gary Neiwand Australia |
1 km time trial details | Aleksandr Kirichenko Soviet Union | Martin Vinnicombe Australia | Robert Lechner West Germany |
Women's
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Sprint details | Erika Salumäe Soviet Union | Christa Luding-Rothenburger East Germany | Connie Young United States |
Participating nations
422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
2 | East Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Australia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
West Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
7 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (9 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |
References
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
External links
- Official Report