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
Venues	Tongillo Road Course Seoul Olympic Velodrome
Date	8–24 September 1988
Competitors	422 from 62 nations
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Road cycling

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Road race details	Olaf Ludwig  East Germany	Bernd Gröne  West Germany	Christian Henn  West Germany
Team time trial details	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

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

Track cycling

Men's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race details	Dan Frost  Denmark	Leo Peelen  Netherlands	Marat Ganeyev  Soviet Union
Individual pursuit details	Gintautas Umaras  Soviet Union	Dean Woods  Australia	Bernd Dittert  East Germany
Team pursuit details	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 details	Lutz Heßlich  East Germany	Nikolay Kovsh  Soviet Union	Gary Neiwand  Australia
1 km time trial details	Aleksandr Kirichenko  Soviet Union	Martin Vinnicombe  Australia	Robert Lechner  West Germany

Women's

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

Participating nations

422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.^[1]

Algeria (2)  Andorra (2)  Antigua and Barbuda (2)  Argentina (7)  Australia (17)  Austria (7)  Barbados (2)  Belgium (6)  Belize (5)  Bolivia (1)  Brazil (8)  Canada (11)  Cayman Islands (6)  China (9)  Chinese Taipei (2)  Colombia (7)

Zaire (4)  Czechoslovakia (13)  Denmark (9)  East Germany (17)  Ecuador (1)  Finland (4)  France (16)  Great Britain (17)  Guatemala (5)  Guyana (2)  Hong Kong (5)  Hungary (1)  Iran (7)  Ireland (5)  Italy (18)

Jamaica (3)  Japan (12)  Lebanon (2)  Libya (2)  Liechtenstein (3)  Malawi (4)  Malaysia (2)  Mexico (5)  Monaco (1)  Netherlands (13)  New Zealand (13)  Norway (5)  Philippines (3)  Poland (11)  Sierra Leone (1)  South Korea (15)

Soviet Union (18)  Spain (13)  Suriname (1)  Sweden (8)  Switzerland (9)  Trinidad and Tobago (2)  United Arab Emirates (6)  United States (19)  Virgin Islands (1)  Uruguay (3)  Venezuela (4)  Vietnam (1)  West Germany (15)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zimbabwe (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	1	2	7
2	East Germany	3	2	1	6
3	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
4	Denmark	1	0	0	1
5	Australia	0	2	2	4
	West Germany	0	2	2	4
7	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Sweden	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27