Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.^[1]

Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Cycling pictogram
Venues	Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion
Date	29 August – 4 September 1972
Competitors	359 from 54 nations
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Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Hennie Kuiper  Netherlands	Clyde Sefton  Australia	no medal awarded [2]
Team time trial details	Soviet Union (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda	no medal awarded [3]

Track cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit details	Knut Knudsen  Norway	Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland	Hans Lutz  West Germany
Team pursuit details	West Germany (FRG) Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel	East Germany (GDR) Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter	Great Britain (GBR) William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble
Sprint details	Daniel Morelon  France	John Nicholson  Australia	Omar Pkhakadze  Soviet Union
Tandem details	Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov  Soviet Union	Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto  East Germany	Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot  Poland
Time trial details	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Danny Clark  Australia	Jürgen Schütze  East Germany

Participating nations

359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.^[1]

Argentina (8)  Australia (10)  Austria (5)  Bahamas (2)  Barbados (3)  Belgium (14)  Brazil (2)  Bulgaria (4)  Cameroon (4)  Canada (9)  Chinese Taipei (1)  Colombia (10)  Cuba (6)  Czechoslovakia (15)

Denmark (13)  East Germany (11)  Ethiopia (5)  Finland (6)  France (15)  Great Britain (11)  Guyana (1)  Hungary (4)  Iran (4)  Ireland (4)  Italy (15)  Jamaica (6)  Japan (3)

Lebanon (1)  Liechtenstein (1)  Luxembourg (2)  Malta (4)  Malawi (2)  Malaysia (4)  Mexico (6)  Netherlands (11)  New Zealand (8)  Norway (7)  Peru (5)  Philippines (1)  Poland (12)  Romania (1)

San Marino (1)  Soviet Union (15)  Spain (8)  Sweden (5)  Switzerland (10)  Thailand (7)  Togo (3)  Trinidad and Tobago (6)  Turkey (6)  United States (15)  Uruguay (5)  West Germany (17)  Yugoslavia (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	0	1	3
2	West Germany	1	0	1	2
3	Denmark	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
7	Australia	0	3	0	3
8	East Germany	0	2	1	3
9	Poland	0	1	1	2
10	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
11	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	5	19