Cycling at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venues	Via Cassia Via Cristoforo Colombo Via di Grottarossa Via Flaminia Olympic Velodrome
Date	26 –29 August 1960
Competitors	297 from 48 nations
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The cycling competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. ^[1] The event was marred by the death of cyclist Knud Jensen.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Viktor Kapitonov   Soviet Union	Livio Trapè   Italy	Willy van den Berghen   Belgium
Time trial, team details	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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pursuit, team details	Italy (ITA) Marino Vigna Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Romanov Arnold Belgardt Leonid Kolumbet Stanislav Moskvin
Sprint details	Sante Gaiardoni   Italy	Leo Sterckx   Belgium	Valentino Gasparella   Italy
Tandem details	Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto   Italy	Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber   United Team of Germany	Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev   Soviet Union
Time trial details	Sante Gaiardoni   Italy	Dieter Gieseler   United Team of Germany	Rostislav Vargashkin   Soviet Union

Participating nations

297 cyclists from 48 nations competed. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

• Official Olympic Report