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.

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

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Hennie Kuiper Netherlands (NED)	Clyde Sefton Australia (AUS)	no medal awarded [1]
Team time trial	Soviet Union (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda	no medal awarded [2]
1000m time trial	Niels Fredborg Denmark (DEN)	Daniel Clark Australia (AUS)	Jürgen Schütze East Germany (GDR)
Sprint	Daniel Morelon France (FRA)	John Nicholson Australia (AUS)	Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union (URS)
Tandem	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Semenets Igor Tselovalnykov	East Germany (GDR) Jürgen Geschke Werner Otto	Poland (POL) Andrzej Bek Benedykt Kocot
Individual pursuit	Knut Knudsen Norway (NOR)	Xaver Kurmann Switzerland (SUI)	Hans Lutz West Germany (FRG)
Team pursuit	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

Notes

1. ^  Jaime Huelamo (ESP) was disqualified after he tested positive for coramine. Fourth-place finisher  Bruce Biddle (NZL) was not awarded the bronze medal because he had not been tested for drugs.
2. ^ Netherlands were disqualified when Aad van den Hoek tested positive for coramine. The fourth-placed Belgian team were not awarded the bronze medal because they had not been tested for drugs.

References

• International Olympic Committee results database