Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The cycling competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul consisted of two different categories: road cycling and track cycling. Nine events were contested, including the first women's sprint event at the Olympics.[1]

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
The Seoul Olympic Velodrome in 2008
VenuesTongillo Road Course
Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Date8–24 September 1988
Competitors422 from 62 nations
← 1984
1992 →

Road cycling

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Men's

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Road race
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Olaf Ludwig
  East Germany
Bernd Gröne
  West Germany
Christian Henn
  West Germany
Team time trial
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  East Germany (GDR)
Jan Schur
Uwe Ampler
Mario Kummer
Maik Landsmann
  Poland (POL)
Andrzej Sypytkowski
Joachim Halupczok
Zenon Jaskuła
Marek Leśniewski
  Sweden (SWE)
Michel Lafis
Anders Jarl
Björn Johansson
Jan Karlsson

Women's

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Road race
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Monique Knol
  Netherlands
Jutta Niehaus
  West Germany
Laima Zilporite
  Soviet Union

Track cycling

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Men's

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
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Dan Frost
  Denmark
Leo Peelen
  Netherlands
Marat Ganeyev
  Soviet Union
Individual pursuit
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Gintautas Umaras
  Soviet Union
Dean Woods
  Australia
Bernd Dittert
  East Germany
Team pursuit
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  Soviet Union (URS)
Viatcheslav Ekimov
Artūras Kasputis
Dmitry Nelyubin
Gintautas Umaras
  East Germany (GDR)
Carsten Wolf
Steffen Blochwitz
Roland Hennig
Dirk Meier
  Australia (AUS)
Scott McGrory
Dean Woods
Brett Dutton
Wayne McCarney
Stephen McGlede
Sprint
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Lutz Heßlich
  East Germany
Nikolay Kovsh
  Soviet Union
Gary Neiwand
  Australia
1 km time trial
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Aleksandr Kirichenko
  Soviet Union
Martin Vinnicombe
  Australia
Robert Lechner
  West Germany

Women's

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Sprint
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Erika Salumäe
  Soviet Union
Christa Luding-Rothenburger
  East Germany
Connie Young
  United States

Participating nations

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422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.[1]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union4127
2  East Germany3216
3  Netherlands1102
4  Denmark1001
5  Australia0224
  West Germany0224
7  Poland0101
8  Sweden0011
  United States0011
Totals (9 entries)99927

References

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  1. ^ a b "Cycling at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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