Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Cycling
Games:	1960 Summer
Venues:	Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia Olympic Velodrome
Date:	26 –29 August 1960
Competitors:	297
Nations:	48
Prev:	1956
Next:	1964

The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.^[1] The event was marred by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Individual road race
Time trial, team	Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni	Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke	Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov

Track cycling

Pursuit, team	Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto	Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme	Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin
Sprint
Tandem
Time trial

Participating nations

297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.

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External links

• Official Olympic Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cycling at the 1960 Rome Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045835/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/CYC/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 28 July 2014 . sports-reference.com.