en Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Cycling; at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
	The Seoul Olympic Velodrome in 2008
Venues	Tongillo Road Course; Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Date	8–24 September 1988
Competitors	422 from 62 nations
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The cycling competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul consisted of two different categories: road cycling and track cycling. Nine events were contested, including the first women's sprint event at the Olympics.^[1]

Road cycling

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Olaf Ludwig East Germany	Bernd Gröne West Germany	Christian Henn West Germany
Team time trial details	East Germany (GDR) Jan Schur Uwe Ampler Mario Kummer Maik Landsmann	Poland (POL) Andrzej Sypytkowski Joachim Halupczok Zenon Jaskuła Marek Leśniewski	Sweden (SWE) Michel Lafis Anders Jarl Björn Johansson Jan Karlsson

Women's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Monique Knol Netherlands	Jutta Niehaus West Germany	Laima Zilporite Soviet Union

Track cycling

Men's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race details	Dan Frost Denmark	Leo Peelen Netherlands	Marat Ganeyev Soviet Union
Individual pursuit details	Gintautas Umaras Soviet Union	Dean Woods Australia	Bernd Dittert East Germany
Team pursuit details	Soviet Union (URS) Viatcheslav Ekimov Artūras Kasputis Dmitry Nelyubin Gintautas Umaras	East Germany (GDR) Carsten Wolf Steffen Blochwitz Roland Hennig Dirk Meier	Australia (AUS) Scott McGrory Dean Woods Brett Dutton Wayne McCarney Stephen McGlede
Sprint details	Lutz Heßlich East Germany	Nikolay Kovsh Soviet Union	Gary Neiwand Australia
1 km time trial details	Aleksandr Kirichenko Soviet Union	Martin Vinnicombe Australia	Robert Lechner West Germany

Women's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sprint details	Erika Salumäe Soviet Union	Christa Luding-Rothenburger East Germany	Connie Young United States

Participating nations

422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.^[1]

Algeria (2)
Andorra (2)
Antigua and Barbuda (2)
Argentina (7)
Australia (17)
Austria (7)
Barbados (2)
Belgium (6)
Belize (5)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (8)
Canada (11)
Cayman Islands (6)
China (9)
Chinese Taipei (2)
Colombia (7)

Zaire (4)
Czechoslovakia (13)
Denmark (9)
East Germany (17)
Ecuador (1)
Finland (4)
France (16)
Great Britain (17)
Guatemala (5)
Guyana (2)
Hong Kong (5)
Hungary (1)
Iran (7)
Ireland (5)
Italy (18)

Jamaica (3)
Japan (12)
Lebanon (2)
Libya (2)
Liechtenstein (3)
Malawi (4)
Malaysia (2)
Mexico (5)
Monaco (1)
Netherlands (13)
New Zealand (13)
Norway (5)
Philippines (3)
Poland (11)
Sierra Leone (1)
South Korea (15)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	1	2	7
2	East Germany	3	2	1	6
3	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
4	Denmark	1	0	0	1
5	Australia	0	2	2	4
5	West Germany	0	2	2	4
7	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Sweden	0	0	1	1
8	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27

References

^ ^a ^b "Cycling at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

External links

Official Report

[sports-reference-1] "Cycling at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2015.

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