Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial explained

Event:Cycling - Men's team time trial
Games:1984 Summer
Venue:Artesia Freeway, Buena Park, California
Dates:5 August
Competitors:104
Nations:26
Longnames:yes
Gold:Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
Goldnoc:ITA
Silver:Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
Silvernoc:SUI
Bronze:Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
Bronzenoc:USA
Prev:1980
Next:1988

The men's team time trial cycling event at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place on 5 August and was one of eight cycling events at the 1984 Olympics. The qualification and quarter finals were on 2 August and the semi-finals and finals on 3 August.[1]

The Italian team recorded a dominant victory by winning by 4:10 over Switzerland. The Italian team was one of the first teams to use modern carbon-fiber disc wheels, which are now commonly used in time trials. Their time of 1h 58:28 was the fastest time ever recorded over 100 km in a team time trial, and would have been faster without a flat tire that cost them 20 seconds to change the wheel. The venue was a 15½-mile stretch of the Artesia Freeway.

Results

RankCyclistsNationTime
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
1:58:28
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
2:02:38
Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
2:02:57
4 Jos Alberts
Erik Breukink
Maarten Ducrot
Gert Jakobs
2:04:46
5 Bengt Asplund
Per Christiansson
Magnus Knutsson
Håkan Larsson
2:05:07
6 Jean-François Bernard
Philippe Bouvatier
Thierry Marie
Denis Pelizzari
2:05:31
7 John Carlsen
Kim Eriksen
Lars Jensen
Søren Lilholt
2:05:31
8 Steven Poulter
Keith Reynolds
Peter Sanders
Darryl Webster
2:05:51
9 Bruno Bulić
Primož Čerin
Janez Lampič
Bojan Ropret
2:05:55
10 Dag Hopen
Hans Petter Ødegård
Arnstein Raunehaug
Morten Sæther
2:07:05
11 Karl Krenauer
Johann Lienhart
Peter Muckenhuber
Helmut Wechselberger
2:08:08
12 Hartmut Bölts
Thomas Freienstein
Bernd Gröne
Michael Maue
2:08:15
13 Harry Hannus
Kari Myyryläinen
Patrick Wackström
Sixten Wackström
2:08:17
14 Pierre Harvey
Alain Masson
Robert Pulfer
Martin Willock
2:09:44
15 Jeff Leslie
Michael Lynch
Gary Trowell
John Watters
2:10:20
16 Philip Cassidy
Martin Earley
Paul Kimmage
Gary Thomson
2:10:52
17 Raúl Alcalá
Félipe Enríquez
Guillermo Gutiérrez
Cuauthémoc Muñoz
2:13:16
18 Gilson Alvaristo
Jair Braga
Renan Ferraro
Marcos Mazzaron
2:15:37
19 Choy Yiu Chung
Hung Chung Yam
Law Siu On
Leung Hung Tak
2:17:24
20 Jo Geon-haeng
Jang Yun-ho
Kim Cheol-seok
Lee Jin-ok
2:17:25
21 Han Shuxiang
Liu Fu
Wang Wanqiang
Zeng Bo
2:17:34
22 David Dibben
Alfred Ebanks
Craig Merren
Aldyn Wint
2:22:49
23 Alain Ayissi
Lucas Feutsa
Joseph Kono
Dieudonné Ntep
2:25:26
24 Hassan Al-Absi
Ahmed Al-Saleh
Mohammed Al-Shanqiti
Rajab Moqbil
2:28:28
25 Joslyn Chavarria
Warren Coye
Kurt Cutkelvin
Merlyn Dawson
2:36:55
26 Dyton Chimwaza
Daniel Kaswanga
George Nayeja
Amadu Yusufu
2:37:32

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cycling at the 1984 Summer Games: Men's team time trial. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417233043/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/CYC/mens-100-kilometres-team-time-trial.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 7 January 2015 . Sports Reference.