Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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Cycling at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venues	Artesia Freeway, Streets of Mission Viejo Olympic Velodrome
Date	July 29 - August 3, 1984
Competitors	359 from 54 nations
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The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.

Road cycling

Men’s events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Alexi Grewal  United States	Steve Bauer  Canada	Dag Otto Lauritzen  Norway
Team time trial details	Italy (ITA) Marcello Bartalini Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Claudio Vandelli	Switzerland (SUI) Alfred Achermann Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial Benno Wiss	United States (USA) Ron Kiefel Clarence Knickman Davis Phinney Andrew Weaver

Women’s events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Connie Carpenter  United States	Rebecca Twigg  United States	Sandra Schumacher  West Germany

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race details	Roger Ilegems  Belgium	Uwe Messerschmidt  West Germany	José Youshimatz  Mexico
Pursuit, individual details	Steve Hegg  United States	Rolf Gölz  West Germany	Leonard Nitz  United States
Pursuit, team details	Australia (AUS) Michael Grenda Kevin Nichols Michael Turtur Dean Woods	United States (USA) David Grylls Steve Hegg Patrick McDonough Leonard Nitz Brent Emery	West Germany (FRG) Reinhard Alber Rolf Gölz Roland Günther Michael Marx
Sprint details	Mark Gorski  United States	Nelson Vails  United States	Tsutomu Sakamoto  Japan
1 km time trial details	Fredy Schmidtke  West Germany	Curt Harnett  Canada	Fabrice Colas  France

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.

Antigua and Barbuda (3)  Argentina (8)  Australia (12)  Austria (9)  Barbados (1)  Belgium (8)  Belize (6)  Bermuda (3)  Brazil (7)  Cameroon (5)  Canada (13)  Cayman Islands (6)  Chile (7)  China (7)

Chinese Taipei (2)  Colombia (7)  Cyprus (1)  Denmark (13)  Fiji (1)  Finland (5)  France (17)  Great Britain (16)  Greece (2)  Guatemala (1)  Guyana (3)  Hong Kong (4)  Ireland (5)

Italy (21)  Jamaica (5)  Japan (9)  Lebanon (1)  Malaysia (1)  Malawi (4)  Mexico (8)  Morocco (4)  Netherlands (16)  New Zealand (7)  Norway (10)  Peru (1)  Philippines (4)  Puerto Rico (1)

San Marino (1)  Saudi Arabia (6)  South Korea (10)  Spain (4)  Sweden (11)  Switzerland (12)  Trinidad and Tobago (1)  Uganda (2)  Uruguay (1)  United States (20)  Venezuela (2)  West Germany (20)  Yugoslavia (6)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	3	2	9
2	West Germany	1	2	2	5
3	Australia	1	0	0	1
	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
6	Canada	0	2	0	2
7	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
8	France	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		8	8	8	24

See also

• Cycling at the Friendship Games

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Cycling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2014.