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Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held from 29 July to 3 August 1984.

For the first time, women's cycling events, along with the men's point race in track cycling, were officially included in the Olympic program.

Medal Table[]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States United States 4 3 2 9
2 West Germany West Germany 1 2 2 5
3 Australia Australia 1 0 0 1
Belgium Belgium 1 0 0 1
Italy Italy 1 0 0 1
6 Canada Canada 0 2 0 2
7 Switzerland Switzerland 0 1 0 1
8 France France 0 0 1 1
Japan Japan 0 0 1 1
Mexico Mexico 0 0 1 1
Norway Norway 0 0 1 1

Medalists[]

Road[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race Alexi Grewal
United States
Steve Bauer
Canada
Dag Otto Lauritzen
Norway
Men's team time trial Italy Italy
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
Switzerland Switzerland
Alfred Acherman
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
United States United States
Ronald Kiefel
Roy Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
Women's road race Connie Carpenter-Phinney
United States
Rebecca Twigg
United States
Sandra Schumacher
West Germany

Track[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Time trial Fredy Schmidtke
West Germany
Curtis Harnett
Canada
Fabrice Colas
France
Individual pursuit Steve Hegg
United States
Rolf Golz
West Germany
Leonard Harvey Nitz
United States
Points race Roger Ilegems
Belgium
Uwe Messerschmidt
West Germany
Jose Manuel Youshimatz
Mexico
Sprint Mark Gorski
United States
Nelson Vails
United States
Tsutomu Sakamoto
Japan
Team pursuit Australia Australia
Michael Grenda
Kevin Nichols
Michael Turtur
Dean Woods
United States United States
Brent Emery
David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Harvey Nitz
West Germany West Germany
Reinhard Alber
Rolf Golz
Roland Gunther
Michael Marx

Statistics[]

  • There were 359 total athletes from 54 countries.
  • Robert Pulfer was the youngest participant with 16 years and 308 days.
  • George Nayeja was the oldest participant with 38 years and 51 days.
  • 3 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
  • Mexico won its first-ever medal in the sport.
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