Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics explained

Event:Cycling
Games:1980 Summer
Venues:Krylatskoye Sports Complex Cycling Circuit
Krylatskoye Sports Complex Velodrome
Date:20–28 July 1980
Competitors:230
Nations:34
Prev:1976
Next:1984

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]

Women's cycling was not part of the programme for the last time, being introduced in 1984.

Medal summary

Road cycling


Team time trial

Yury Kashirin
Oleg Logvin
Sergei Shelpakov
Anatoly Yarkin

Falk Boden
Bernd Drogan
Olaf Ludwig
Hans-Joachim Hartnick

Michal Klasa
Vlastibor Konečný
Alipi Kostadinov
Jiří Škoda

Track cycling

Individual pursuit
Team pursuit

Viktor Manakov
Valery Movchan
Vladimir Osokin
Vitaly Petrakov
Aleksandr Krasnov

Gerald Mortag
Uwe Unterwalder
Matthias Wiegand
Volker Winkler

Teodor Černý
Martin Penc
Jiří Pokorný
Igor Sláma
Sprint
1 km time trial

Participating nations

230 cyclists from 34 nations competed.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cycling at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053417/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1980/CYC/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 August 2014 . sports-reference.com.
  2. Web site: Official Report . (nb: Country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120127195535/http://www.olympic-museum.de/o-reports/report1980.htm . 27 January 2012 . dmy .