Cycling at the: Games of theââXVII Olympiad | |
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Venues | Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia Olympic Velodrome |
Date | 26 â29 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." The event was marred by, the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.
Medal summaryâ»
Road cyclingâ»
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual road race details |
Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union |
Livio TrapĂš Italy |
Willy van den Berghen Belgium |
Time trial, team details |
Italy (ITA) Livio TrapĂš Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni |
United Team of Germany (EUA) Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen GĂŒnter Lörke |
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov |
Track cyclingâ»
Participating nationsâ»
297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.
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Medal tableâ»
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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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 |
Referencesâ»
- ^ "Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2014.