Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's team road race

The men's team road race cycling event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on 13 August and was one of six events at the 1948 Olympics. Teams had four riders and the team time taken as sum of the team's three best finishers.^[1]

Cycling - Men's team road race at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Road Course, Windsor Great Park 194.633 km (120.9 mi)
Dates	13 August 1948
Competitors	96 (individuals) 25 (teams) from 25 nations
Medalists
Lode Wouters Leon De Lathouwer Eugène Van Roosbroeck  Belgium Bob Maitland Gordon Thomas Ian Scott  Great Britain José Beyaert Alain Moineau Jacques Dupont  France
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The race was won by the Belgian team. However, the Belgian cyclists were not aware that there was a team competition, and returned to Belgium, missing the medal ceremony. Only in 2010 did they receive their medals.^[2]

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Lode Wouters Leon De Lathouwer Eugène Van Roosbroeck Liévin Lerno	Belgium	15:58:17.4
	Bob Maitland Gordon Thomas Ian Scott Ernie Clements	Great Britain	16:03:31.6
	José Beyaert Alain Moineau Jacques Dupont René Rouffeteau	France	16:08:19.4
4	Adolfo Ferrari Silvio Pedroni Franco Fanti Livio Isotti	Italy	16:13:05.2
5	Nils Johansson Harry Snell Åke Olivestedt Olle Wänlund	Sweden	16:20:26.6
6	Jakob Schenk Jean Brun Walter Reiser Giovanni Rossi	Switzerland	16:23:04.2
7	Ceferino Peroné Dante Benvenuti Miguel Sevillano Mario Mathieu	Argentina	16:39:46.2
AC	Jack Hoobin Russell Mockridge Jim Nestor Ken Caves	Australia	DNF
	Rudi Valenta Hans Goldschmid Josef Pohnetal Siegmund Huber	Austria	DNF
	Florent Jodoin Lance Pugh Laurent Tessier Lorne Atkinson	Canada	DNF
	Exequiel Ramírez Mario Masanés Rogelio Salcedo Renato Iturrate	Chile	DNF
	Kristian Pedersen Knud Andersen Børge Saxil Nielsen Rudolf Rasmussen	Denmark	DNF
	Erkki Koskinen Paul Backman Torvald Högström	Finland	DNF
	Evangelos Kouvelis Manthos Kaloudis Petros Leonidis	Greece	DNF
	Eruch Mistry Homi Powri Bapoo Malcolm Raj Kumar Mehra	India	DNF
	Henri Kellen Marcel Ernzer Pitty Scheer Robert Bintz	Luxembourg	DNF
	Francisco Rodríguez Gabino Rodríguez Manuel Solis Placido Herrera	Mexico	DNF
	Gerrit Voorting Evert Grift Henk Faanhof Piet Peters	Netherlands	DNF
	Aage Myhrvold Erling Kristiansen Leif Flengsrud Lorang Christiansen	Norway	DNF
	Hernán Llerena Luis Poggi Pedro Mathey	Peru	DNF
	George Estman Dirkie Binneman Wally Rivers	South Africa	DNF
	Ali Çetiner Mustafa Osmanlı Orhan Suda Talat Tunçalp	Turkey	DNF
	Enrique Demarco Luis López Mario Figueredo Waldemar Bernatzky	Uruguay	DNF
	Chester Nelsen Ed Lynch Frank Brilando Wendell Rollins	United States	DNF
	Aleksandar Strain Aleksandar Zorić August Prosenik Milan Poredski	Yugoslavia	DNF