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.
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Cycling pictogram | |
| Venues | Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion |
| Date | 29 August – 4 September 1972 |
| Competitors | 359 from 54 nations |
Medal summary
Road cycling
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual road race | Hennie Kuiper Netherlands | Clyde Sefton Australia | no medal awarded |
| Team time trial | Soviet Union Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov | Poland Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda | no medal awarded |
Track cycling
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual pursuit | Knut Knudsen Norway | Xaver Kurmann Switzerland | Hans Lutz West Germany |
| Team pursuit | West Germany Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel | East Germany Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter | Great Britain William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble |
| Sprint | Daniel Morelon France | John Nicholson Australia | Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union |
| Tandem | Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union | Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto East Germany | Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot Poland |
| Time trial | Niels Fredborg Denmark | Danny Clark Australia | Jürgen Schütze East Germany |
Participating nations
359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.
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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 | |
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