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]
| 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 |
Medal summary
editRoad cycling
edit| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race |
Hennie Kuiper Netherlands
|
Clyde Sefton Australia
|
no medal awarded [2] |
| Team time trial |
 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] |
Track cycling
edit| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual pursuit |
Knut Knudsen Norway
|
Xaver Kurmann Switzerland
|
Hans Lutz West Germany
|
| Team pursuit |
 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 |
Daniel Morelon France
|
John Nicholson Australia
|
Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union
|
| Tandem |
Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union
|
Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto  East Germany
|
Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot  Poland
|
| Time trial |
Niels Fredborg Denmark
|
Danny Clark Australia
|
Jürgen Schütze East Germany
|
Participating nations
edit359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table
edit| 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 | |
Notes
edit- ^ 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.