Encyclopedia > Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The cycling competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The individual event in road cycling was a time trial, having been a road race in the previous Games. The 50 km track event held in 1920 and 1924 was replaced by a 1 km time trial. This road bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ... The Games of the IX Olympiad were held in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 741,329 (1 August 2006) Demonym Amsterdammer Coordinates Website www. ... Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on the road (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ... Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles. ... The cycling competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. ...
Italy(ITA) Cesare Facciani Giacomo Gaioni Mario Lusiani Luigi Tasselli
Netherlands(NED) Adriaan Braspenninx Jan Maas Johannes Pijnenburg Piet van der Horst
Great Britain(GBR) George Southall Harry Wyld Leonard Wyld Percy Wyld
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Four years later at the 1932 SummerOlympics in Los Angeles he won Australia's first cycling gold medal in the same event in World and Olympic record time (1.13).
In his last years, Dunc Gray lived in Kiama and devoted energy to supporting the Olympic movement, including Melbourne's bid for the 1996 SummerOlympics and then for Sydney's successful bid for the 2000 SummerOlympics.
The Dunc Gray velodrome at Bass Hill, in Sydney's western suburbs, built for the 2000 SummerOlympics in Sydney, was named after this iconic Australian cyclist.
For the first time, the Olympic Flame was lit during the Olympics.
The torch relay was however not started until the 1936 SummerOlympics.
For the first time, the parade of nations started with Greece, which holds the origins of the Olympics, and ended with the host country, a tradition still continued until this day.
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