Cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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]

Cycling at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Krylatskoye Velodrome in 2008
Venues	Krylatskoye Sports Complex Cycling Circuit Krylatskoye Sports Complex Velodrome
Date	20–28 July 1980
Competitors	230 from 34 nations
← 1976 1984 →

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

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov  Soviet Union	Czesław Lang  Poland	Yuri Barinov  Soviet Union
Team time trial details	Soviet Union (URS) Yury Kashirin Oleg Logvin Sergei Shelpakov Anatoly Yarkin	East Germany (GDR) Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Olaf Ludwig Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Michal Klasa Vlastibor Konečný Alipi Kostadinov Jiří Škoda

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit details	Robert Dill-Bundi  Switzerland	Alain Bondue  France	Hans-Henrik Ørsted  Denmark
Team pursuit details	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Manakov Valery Movchan Vladimir Osokin Vitaly Petrakov Aleksandr Krasnov	East Germany (GDR) Gerald Mortag Uwe Unterwalder Matthias Wiegand Volker Winkler	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Teodor Černý Martin Penc Jiří Pokorný Igor Sláma
Sprint details	Lutz Heßlich  East Germany	Yavé Cahard  France	Sergei Kopylov  Soviet Union
1 km time trial details	Lothar Thoms  East Germany	Aleksandr Panfilov  Soviet Union	David Weller  Jamaica

Participating nations

230 cyclists from 34 nations competed.^[1]

Australia (10)  Austria (6)  Belgium (12)  Brazil (6)  Bulgaria (6)  Cameroon (6)  Cuba (3)  Czechoslovakia (11)  Denmark (11)

East Germany (13)  Ecuador (4)  Ethiopia (8)  Finland (5)  France (9)  Great Britain (12)  Guyana (2)  Hungary (10)

Ireland (3)  Italy (10)  Jamaica (2)  Lebanon (2)  Libya (7)  Malta (4)  Mongolia (5)  Netherlands (7)  Poland (11)

Romania (2)  San Marino (2)  Soviet Union (13)  Sweden (6)  Switzerland (10)  Venezuela (5)  Yugoslavia (4)  Zimbabwe (3)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	3	1	2	6
2	East Germany	2	2	0	4
3	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
4	France	0	2	0	2
5	Poland	0	1	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia	0	0	2	2
7	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

1. "Cycling at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
2. "Official Report". (nb: Country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.). Archived from the original on 27 January 2012.