title: Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics
text: # Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  
  The cycling competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The individual event in road cycling was a time trial over a distance of 168 km; the team competition was decided by aggregating the times of the three fastest riders from each nation. The 50 km track event held in 1920 and 1924 was replaced by a 1 km time trial.
  
  ## Medal summary
  
  ### Road cycling
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Individual time trial details | Henry Hansen (DEN) | Frank Southall (GBR) | Gösta Carlsson (SWE) |
  | Team time trial details | Denmark (DEN) Henry Hansen Orla Jørgensen Leo Nielsen | Great Britain (GBR) Jack Lauterwasser John Middleton Frank Southall | Sweden (SWE) Gösta Carlsson Erik Jansson Georg Johnsson |
  
  ### Track cycling
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Pursuit, Team details | Italy (ITA) Cesare Facciani Giacomo Gaioni Mario Lusiani Luigi Tasselli | Netherlands (NED) Johannes Maas Piet van der Horst Janus Braspennincx Jan Pijnenburg | Great Britain (GBR) George Southall Harry Wyld Leonard Wyld Percy Wyld |
  | Sprint details | Roger Beaufrand (FRA) | Antoine Mazairac (NED) | Willy Hansen (DEN) |
  | Tandem details | Bernhard Leene and Daan van Dijk (NED) | Ernest Chambers and John Sibbit (GBR) | Hans Bernhardt and Karl Köther (GER) |
  | Track time trial details | Willy Hansen (DEN) | Gerard Bosch van Drakestein (NED) | Dunc Gray (AUS) |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  149 cyclists from 27 nations competed. Ireland, Spain, and Turkey competed in cycling for the first time.
  
  | Argentina (6)  Australia (2)  Austria (2)  Belgium (8)  Canada (6)  Chile (5)  Czechoslovakia (4)  Denmark (5)  Finland (1) | France (8)  Germany (10)  Great Britain (12)  Ireland (2)  Italy (12)  Latvia (5)  Lithuania (4)  Luxembourg (4)  Netherlands (11) | Norway (4)  Poland (11)  South Africa (1)  Spain (1)  Sweden (4)  Switzerland (9)  Turkey (4)  United States (4)  Yugoslavia (4) |
  | - | - | - |
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Denmark (DEN) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
  | 2 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
  | 3 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
  | 6 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
  | 7 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 7 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
  