Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venues	Satellite Circuit Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome
Date	15 –21 October 1968
Competitors	329 from 52 nations

The cycling competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.^[1]

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Pierfranco Vianelli  Italy	Leif Mortensen  Denmark	Gösta Pettersson  Sweden
Team time trial details	Netherlands (NED) Joop Zoetemelk Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen	Sweden (SWE) Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson	Italy (ITA) Pierfranco Vianelli Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, Individual details	Daniel Rebillard  France	Mogens Jensen  Denmark	Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland
Pursuit, Team details	Denmark (DEN) Per Jørgensen Reno Olsen Gunnar Asmussen Mogens Jensen	West Germany (FRG) Karl Link Udo Hempel Karlheinz Henrichs Jürgen Kissner	Italy (ITA) Luigi Roncaglia Lorenzo Bosisio Cipriano Chemello Giorgio Morbiato
Sprint details	Daniel Morelon  France	Giurdano Turrini  Italy	Pierre Trentin  France
Tandem details	Daniel Morelon and Pierre Trentin (FRA)	Leijn Loevesijn and Jan Jansen (NED)	Daniel Goens and Robert van Lancker (BEL)
Time trial details	Pierre Trentin  France	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski  Poland

Participating nations

329 cyclists from 52 nations competed.^[1]

Argentina (9)  Australia (9)  Barbados (4)  Belgium (15)  British Honduras (2)  Canada (6)  Taiwan (5)  Colombia (10)  Congo-Kinshasa (5)  Costa Rica (5)  Cuba (6)  Czechoslovakia (8)  Denmark (13)

East Germany (10)  Ecuador (4)  El Salvador (5)  Ethiopia (5)  Finland (4)  France (14)  Great Britain (14)  Guatemala (4)  Guyana (1)  Hungary (7)  Iraq (1)  Ireland (3)  Italy (16)

Japan (1)  Lebanon (1)  Luxembourg (1)  Madagascar (1)  Malaysia (2)  Mexico (12)  Netherlands (10)  New Zealand (5)  Norway (6)  Philippines (3)  Poland (10)  Puerto Rico (1)  Romania (1)

San Marino (2)  South Korea (2)  Soviet Union (15)  Spain (7)  Sweden (6)  Switzerland (4)  Thailand (7)  Trinidad and Tobago (7)  United States (15)  Uruguay (5)  Vietnam (2)  West Germany (14)  Yugoslavia (4)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	4	0	1	5
2	Denmark	1	3	0	4
3	Italy	1	1	2	4
4	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
5	Sweden	0	1	1	2
6	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

1. "Cycling at the 1968 Mexico Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.