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Olympic Games Road Cycling

Olympic Games Road Cycling events were held only for Amateur Men since 1896;
Mens Team title, awarded from 1912 to 1956, based on each nation's top four Road Race placings;
Womens events began in 1984; Professional Men allowed since 1996.

2004 Athens, Greece (GRE)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
224.4 km
Paolo Bettini (ITA)
5:41:44 at 39.4 kph
Sergio Paulinho (POR)
at :01
Axel Merckx (BEL)
at :08
WOMENS ROAD RACE
118.8 km
Sara Carrigan (AUS)
3:24:24 at 34.8 kph
Judith Arndt (GER)
at :07
Olga Slyusareva (RUS)
at :39
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
48 km
Tyler Hamilton (USA)
57:31.74 at 50.06 kph
Viacheslav Ekimov (RUS)
at :18.8
Bobby Julich (USA)
at :26.4
WOMENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
24 km
Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel (NED)
31:11.53 at 46.1 kph
Deirdre Demet-Barry (USA)
at :24.0
Karin Thürig (SUI)
at :43.3

2000 Sydney, Australia (AUS)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
240 km
Jan Ullrich (GER)
5:29:08 at 43.7 kph
Alexandr Vinokurov (KAZ)
at :09
Andreas Kloden (GER)
at :12
WOMENS ROAD RACE
120 km
Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel (NED)
3:06:31 at kph
Hanka Kupfernagel (GER)
at same time
Diana Ziluté (LTU)
at same time
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
45.8 km
Viacheslav Ekimov (RUS)
57:40 at kph
Jan Ullrich (GER)
at :08
Lance E. Armstrong (USA)
at :34
WOMENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
31.2 km
Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel (NED)
42:00 at kph
Mari Holden (USA)
at :37
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (FRA)
at :52

1996 Atlanta, United States (USA)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
221 km
Pascal Richard (SUI)
4:53:56 at 45 kph
Rolf Sorensen (DEN)
at same time
Max Sciandri (GBR)
at :02
WOMENS ROAD RACE
104 km
Jeannie Longo (FRA)
2:36:13 at 40 kph
Imelda Chiappa (ITA)
at :25
Clara Hughes (CAN)
at :31
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
52 km
Miguel Indurain (ESP)
1:04:05 at 48 kph
Abraham Olano (ESP)
at :12
Christopher Miles Boardman (GBR)
at :31
WOMENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
26 km
Zulfiya Zabirova (RUS)
36:40 at 42 kph
Jeannie Longo (FRA)
at :27
Clara Hughes (CAN)
at :33

1992 Barcelona, Spain (ESP)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
194 km
Fabio Casartelli (ITA)
4:35:21 at 42 kph
Erik Dekker (NED)
at :01
Dainis Ozols (LAT)
at :03
WOMENS ROAD RACE
81 km
Kathryn Watt (AUS)
2:04:42 at 39 kph
Jeannie Longo (FRA)
at :20
Monica Knol (NED)
at :21
MENS ROAD TEAM TIME TRIAL
102 km
GERMANY in 2:01:39 at 50 kph
Bernd Dittert
Christian Meyer
Uwe Peschel
Michael Rich
ITALY at 1:00
Flavio Anastasia
Luca Colombo
Gianfranco Contri
Andrea Peron
FRANCE at 3:46
Herve Boussard
Didier Faivre-Pierret
Philippe Gaumont
Jean-Louis Harel

1988 Seoul, Korea (KOR)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
196 km
Olaf Ludwig (DDR)
4:32:22 at 43 kph
Bernd Gröne (GER)
at :03
Christian Henn (GER)
at :24
WOMENS ROAD RACE
82 km
Monica Knol (NED)
2:00:52 at 41 kph
Jutta Niehaus (GER)
at same time
Lila Zilporite (URS)
at same time
MENS ROAD TEAM TIME TRIAL
100 km
EAST GERMANY in 1:57:47 at 51 kph
Uwe Ampler
Mario Kummer
Maik Landsmann
Jan Schur
POLAND at :07
Joachim Halupczok
Zenon Jaskula
Marek Lesniewski
Andrezej Sypytkowski
SWEDEN at 2:00
Bjorn Johansson
Jan Karlsson
Michel Lafis
Anders Jarl

1984 Los Angeles, United States (USA)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
190 km
Alexi S. Grewal (USA)
4:35:21 at 38 kph
Stephen Bauer (CAN)
at same time
Dag-Otto Lauritzen (NOR)
at :21
WOMENS ROAD RACE
79 km
Connie Carpenter (USA)
2:11:14 at 33 kph
Rebecca Lynne Twigg (USA)
at same time
Sandra Schumacher (GER)
at same time
MENS ROAD TEAM TIME TRIAL
100 km
ITALY in 1:58:28 at 50 kph
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
SWITZERLAND at 4:10
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
UNITED STATES at 4:18
Ronald Kiefel
Roy Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver

1980 Moscow, Russia (URS)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
189 km
Sergei Soukhoroutchenkov (URS)
4:48:28 at 42 kph
Czeslaw Lang (POL)
at 1:58
Yuri Barinov (URS)
at 2:01
MENS TEAM TIME TRIAL
100 km
SOVIET UNION in 2:01:21.7 at 49 kph
Yuri Kashirin
Oleg Logvin
Sergei Shelpakov
Anatoli Yarkin
EAST GERMANY at 1:02
Falk Boden
Bernd Drogan
Olaf Ludwig
Hans-Joachim Hartnick
CZECHOSLOVAKIA at 1:03
Michal Klasa
Vlastibor Konecny
Alipi Kostadinov
Jiri Skoda

1976 Montreal, Canada (CAN)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
175 km
Bernt Johansson (SWE)
4:46:52 at 36 kph
Giuseppe Martinelli (ITA)
at :31
Mieczyslaw Nowicki (POL)
at :31
MENS TEAM TIME TRIAL
100 km
SOVIET UNION in 2:08:53 at 46 kph
Anatoli Chukanov
Valeri Chaplygin
Vladimir Kaminski
Aavo Pikkuus
POLAND at :20
Tadeusz Mytnik
Mieczyslaw Nowicki
Stanislaw Szozda
Ryszard Szurkowski
DENMARK at 3:27
Verner Blaudzun
Gert Frank
Jorgen Hansen
Jorn Lund

1972 Munich, West Germany (GER)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
182 km
Hennie Kuiper (NED)
4:14:37 at 42 kph
Kevin Clyde Sefton (AUS)
at :27
[X] Jaime Huelamo (ESP)
at :27
MENS TEAM TIME TRIAL
100 km
SOVIET UNION in 2:11:17.8 at 45 kph
Boris Shukhov
Valery Yardy
Gennadi Komnatov
Valery Likhachev
POLAND at :30
Edward Barcik
Lucjan Lis
Stanislaw Szozda
Ryszard Szurkowski
NETHERLANDS
[X]

1968 Mexico City, Mexico (MEX)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
196 km
Pierfranco Vianelli (ITA)
4:41:25.24 at 40 kph
Leif Mortensen (DEN)
4:42:49.71A
Gosta Pettersson (SWE)
4:43:15.24
MENS TEAM TIME TRIAL
101 km
NETHERLANDS in 2:07:49.06 at 47 kph
Fedor Den Hertog
Jan Krekels
Rene Pijnen
Hendrik Joop Zoetmelk
SWEDEN at 2:09:26.60
Gosta Pettersson
Erik Faglum-Petersson
Sture Faglum-Petersson
Tomas Faglum-Petersson
ITALY at 2:10:18.74
Giovanni Bramucci
Vittorio Marcelli
Mauro Simonetti
Pierfranco Vianelli

1964 Tokyo, Japan (JPN)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
194 km
Mario Zanin (ITA)
4:39:51.63 at 41 kph
Kjell Rodian (DEN)
at same time
Walter Godefroot (BEL)
at same time
MENS TEAM TIME TRIAL
109 km
NETHERLANDS in 2:26:31.19 at 45 kph
Evert Dolman
Gerben Karstens
Johannes Aloysius Pieterse
Hubertus Balthazar Zoet
ITALY at :24
Severino Andreoli
Luciano Dalla Bona
Pietro Guerra
Ferruccio Manza
SWEDEN at :40
Gosta Pettersson
Erik Faglum-Petersson
Sture Faglum-Petersson
Sven Hamrin

1960 Rome, Italy (ITA)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
175 km
Viktor Kapitonov (URS)
4:20:37 at 40 kph
Livio Trape (ITA)
at same time
Willy Van den Berghen (BEL)
at :20
MENS TEAM TIME TRIAL
100 km
ITALY in 2:14:33.53 at 44 kph
Antonio Bailetti
Ottavio Cogliati
Giacomo Fornoni
Livio Trape
UNIFIED GERMANY at 2:23
Egon Adler
Erich Hagen
Gunter Lorke
Gustav-Adolf Schur
SOVIET UNION at 4:08
Viktor Kapitonov
Yevgeni Klevtsov
Yuri Melikhov
Aleksei Petrov

1956 Melbourne, Australia (AUS)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
187 km
Ercole Baldini (ITA)
5:21:17 at 35 kph
Arnaud Geyre (FRA)
at 1:59
Alan Jackson (GBR)
at 1:59
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
187 km
FRANCE
22 points
GREAT BRITAIN
23 point
GERMANY
27 points

1952 Helsinki, Finland (FIN)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
190 km
Andre Noyelle (BEL)
5:06:03 at 37 kph
Robert Grondelaers (BEL)
at :48
Edi Ziegler (GER)
at 1:44
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
190 km
BELGIUM
15:20:46
ITALY
at 12:39
FRANCE
at 18:12

1948 London, England (GBR)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
194 km
Jose Beyaert (FRA)
5:18:12 at 37 kph
Gerardus Voorting (NED)
at :04
Lode Wouters (BEL)
at :04
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
194 km
BELGIUM
15:58:17
GREAT BRITAIN
at 5:14
FRANCE
at 10:02

1936 Berlin, Germany (GER)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
100 km
Robert Charpentier (FRA)
2:33:05 at 39 kph
Guy Lapebie (FRA)
at same time
Ernst Nievergelt (SUI)
at same time
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
100 km
FRANCE
7:39:16
SWITZERLAND
at :04
BELGIUM
at :05

1932 Los Angeles, United States (USA)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
100 km
Attilio Pavesi (ITA)
2:28:05.6 at 40 kph
Gugielmo Segato (ITA)
at 1:16
Bernhard Britz (SUI)
at 1:40
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
100 km
ITALY
7:27:15
DENMARK
at 11:35
SWEDEN
at 11:57

1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands (NED)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
168 km
Henry Hansen (DEN)
4:47:18 at 39 kph
Frank Southall (GBR)
4:55:06
Gosta Carlsson (SWE)
5:00:17
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
168 km
DENMARK
15:09:14
GREAT BRITAIN
at 5:35
SWEDEN
at 18:35

1924 Paris, France (FRA)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
188 km
Armand Blanchonnet (FRA)
6:20:48 at 29 kph
Henri Hoevenaars (BEL)
at 9:39
Rene Hamel (FRA)
at 10:03
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
188 km
FRANCE
19:30:14 at 28 kph
BELGIUM
19:46:55
SWEDEN
19:59:41

1920 Antwerp, Belgium (BEL)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
175 km
Harry Stenqvist (SWE)
4:40:01 at 38 kph
Henry Kaltenbrun (SAF)
at 1:25
Fernand Canteloube (FRA)
at 2:53
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
175 km
FRANCE
19:16:43 at 36 kph
SWEDEN
at 12:01
BELGIUM
at 17:01

1912 Stockholm, Sweden (SWE)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME-SPEED 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD TIME TRIAL
320 km
Rudolf Lewis (SAF)
10:42:39 at 30 kph
Fred Grubb (GBR)
at 8:35
Carl Schutte (USA-GER)
at 9:59
MENS TEAM TOP-FOUR
320 km
SWEDEN
44:35:33 at 28 kph
GREAT BRITAIN
at 9:06
UNITED STATES
at 12:22

1906 Athens, Greece (GRE)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
84 km
Ferdinand Vast (FRA)
2:41:28 at 31 kph
Maurice Bardonneau (FRA) Edmond Luget (FRA)

1896 Athens, Greece (GRE)

EVENT
DISTANCE KILOMETERS
1st PLACE GOLD MEDAL (NATION)
TIME 00:00.00 at KILOMETERS PER HOUR
2nd PLACE SILVER MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
3rd PLACE BRONZE MEDAL (NATION)
TIME BEHIND AT 00:00
MENS ROAD RACE
87 km
Aristidis Konstantinides (GRE)
3:21:10 at 26 kph
August Goedrich (GER)
at 10:04
Edward Battel (GBR)
at --