Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics explained

Event:Cycling
Games:1984 Summer
Venues:Artesia Freeway, Streets of Mission Viejo
Olympic Velodrome
Date:July 29–August 3, 1984
Competitors:359
Nations:54
Prev:1980
Next:1988

The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.[1]

Road cycling

Men’s events

Road race
Team time trial

Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli

Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss

Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver

Women’s events

Road race

Track cycling

Points race
Pursuit, individual
Pursuit, team

David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Nitz
Brent Emery
Sprint
1 km time trial

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.

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See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cycling at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043053/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/CYC/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 August 2014 . sports-reference.com.