Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venues	Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia Olympic Velodrome
Date	26 –29 August 1960
Competitors	297 from 48 nations

The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.^[1] The event was marred by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Viktor Kapitonov  Soviet Union	Livio Trapè  Italy	Willy van den Berghen  Belgium
Time trial, team details	Italy (ITA) Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni	United Team of Germany (EUA) Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, team details	Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin
Sprint details	Sante Gaiardoni  Italy	Leo Sterckx  Belgium	Valentino Gasparella  Italy
Tandem details	Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto  Italy	Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber  United Team of Germany	Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev  Soviet Union
Time trial details	Sante Gaiardoni  Italy	Dieter Gieseler  United Team of Germany	Rostislav Vargashkin  Soviet Union

Participating nations

297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.^[1]

Argentina (8)  Australia (9)  Austria (8)  Belgium (13)  Brazil (1)  Bulgaria (5)  Canada (2)  Colombia (7)  Czechoslovakia (6)  Denmark (8)  Ethiopia (5)  Finland (4)

France (14)  United Team of Germany (14)  Great Britain (12)  Hungary (5)  Indonesia (4)  Iraq (2)  Ireland (5)  Israel (2)  Italy (14)  Japan (5)  Liechtenstein (1)  Luxembourg (6)

Malta (3)  Mexico (10)  Morocco (4)  Netherlands (13)  New Zealand (1)  Norway (1)  Pakistan (2)  Poland (5)  Portugal (4)  Romania (6)  San Marino (4)  South Korea (4)

South Africa (5)  Soviet Union (13)  Spain (9)  Ceylon (1)  Sweden (4)  Switzerland (14)  Tunisia (4)  United States (14)  Uruguay (5)  Venezuela (5)  British West Indies (1)  Yugoslavia (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	1	1	7
2	Soviet Union	1	0	4	5
3	United Team of Germany	0	4	0	4
4	Belgium	0	1	1	2
Totals (4 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

1. "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2014.

External links

• Official Olympic Report