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Encyclopedia > Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The cycling competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The 2000m tandem event, contested at the previous 13 Games since 1908, was dropped from the Olympic cycling program. This road bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ... The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... 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. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 West Germany West Germany 2 0 0 2
2 USSR USSR 1 1 0 2
3 East Germany East Germany 1 0 2 3
4 Czechoslovakia 1 0 0 1
Sweden Sweden 1 0 0 1
6 Poland 0 1 1 2
7 Belgium 0 1 0 1
France France 0 1 0 1
Italy Italy 0 1 0 1
Netherlands Netherlands 0 1 0 1
11 Denmark Denmark 0 0 2 2
12 Great Britain Great Britain 0 0 1 1

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Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual road race Sweden Bernt Johansson
Sweden (SWE)		 Italy Giuseppe Martinelli
Italy (ITA)		  Mieczyslaw Nowicki
Poland (POL)
Team time trial USSR USSR (URS)
Aavo Pikkuus
Valery Chaplygin
Anatoly Chukanov
Vladimir Kaminsky		  Poland (POL)
Ryszard Szurkowski
Tadeusz Mytnik
Mieczyslaw Nowicki
Stanislaw Szozda		 Denmark Denmark (DEN)
Jørn Lund
Verner Blaudzun
Gert Frank
Jørgen Hansen
1000m time trial East Germany Klaus-Jürgen Grünke
East Germany (GDR)		  Michel Vaarten
Belgium (BEL)		 Denmark Niels Fredborg
Denmark (DEN)
Sprint  Anton Tkác
Czechoslovakia (TCH)		 France Daniel Morelon
France (FRA)		 East Germany Jürgen Geschke
East Germany (GDR)
Individual pursuit West Germany Gregor Braun
West Germany (FRG)		 Netherlands Herman Ponsteen
Netherlands (NED)		 East Germany Thomas Huschke
East Germany (GDR)
Team pursuit West Germany West Germany (FRG)
Peter Vonhof
Gregor Braun
Hans Lutz
Günther Schumacher		 USSR USSR (URS)
Viktor Sokolov
Vladimir Osokin
Aleksandr Perov
Vitaly Petrakov		 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Ian Hallam
Ian Banbury
Michael Bennett
Robin Croker
Events at the 1976 Summer Olympics (Montreal)
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Cycling at the Summer Olympics
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004
See also: List of Olympic medalists in cycling (men) and List of Olympic medalists in cycling (women)

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