Cycling At The 1960 Summer Olympics
The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only.
The event was marred by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.
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| Venues | Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia Olympic Velodrome |
| Date | 26 –29 August 1960 |
| Competitors | 297 from 48 nations |
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Individual road race | Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union | Livio Trapè Italy | Willy van den Berghen Belgium |
| Time trial, team |  Italy (ITA)Livio Trapè Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni |  United Team of Germany (EUA)Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke |  Soviet Union (URS)Aleksei Petrov Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov |
Track cycling
Participating nations
297 cyclists from 48 nations competed.
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Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Italy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | United Team of Germany | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |  Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
References
External links
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