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.