Cycling competitions at the 1980 Summer Olympics were split into two categories: Road and Track. Six events were contested (all for men). All four events of the track cycling were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre (Krylatskoye district, Moscow). The 100 km team time trial event was held along the Moscow-Minsk highway. It started from 23rd kilometre off Moscow, had a turning point at 73.5 kilometre off Moscow and finished not far from the starting point. The individual road race event (14 laps, 189 kilometres total) was held at the Olympic Cycling Circuit of the Trade Unions Olympic Centre.[1][2]
| Cycling at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
 Krylatskoye Velodrome in 2008 | |
| Venues | Krylatskoye Sports Complex Cycling Circuit Krylatskoye Sports Complex Velodrome |
| Date | 20 –28 July 1980 |
| Competitors | 230 from 34 nations |
Women's cycling was not part of the programme for the last time, being introduced in 1984.
Medal summary edit
Road cycling edit
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race |
Sergei Sukhoruchenkov Soviet Union
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Czesław Lang Poland
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Yuri Barinov Soviet Union
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| Team time trial |
 Soviet Union (URS)Yury Kashirin Oleg Logvin Sergei Shelpakov Anatoly Yarkin |
 East Germany (GDR)Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Olaf Ludwig Hans-Joachim Hartnick |
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)Michal Klasa Vlastibor Konečný Alipi Kostadinov Jiří Škoda |
Track cycling edit
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual pursuit |
Robert Dill-Bundi Switzerland
|
Alain Bondue France
|
Hans-Henrik Ørsted Denmark
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| Team pursuit |
Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vladimir Osokin Vitaly Petrakov Aleksandr Krasnov |
East Germany (GDR) Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler |
Czechoslovakia (TCH) Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma |
| Sprint |
Lutz Heßlich East Germany
|
Yavé Cahard France
|
Sergei Kopylov Soviet Union
|
| 1 km time trial |
Lothar Thoms East Germany
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Aleksandr Panfilov Soviet Union
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David Weller Jamaica
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Participating nations edit
230 cyclists from 34 nations competed.[1]
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Medal table edit
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | East Germany | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 |  Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | France | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
References edit
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ "Official Report". (nb: Country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.). Archived from the original on 27 January 2012.