title: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics
text: # 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 summary
  
  ### Road cycling
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Individual road race details | Hennie Kuiper Netherlands | Clyde Sefton Australia | no medal awarded |
  | Team time trial details | Soviet Union (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov | Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda | no medal awarded |
  
  ### Track cycling
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Individual pursuit details | Knut Knudsen Norway | Xaver Kurmann Switzerland | Hans Lutz West Germany |
  | Team pursuit details | 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 |
  | Sprint details | Daniel Morelon France | John Nicholson Australia | Omar Pkhakadze Soviet Union |
  | Tandem details | Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov Soviet Union | Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto East Germany | Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot Poland |
  | Time trial details | Niels Fredborg Denmark | Danny Clark Australia | Jürgen Schütze East Germany |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.
  
  | Argentina (8)  Australia (10)  Austria (5)  Bahamas (2)  Barbados (3)  Belgium (14)  Brazil (2)  Bulgaria (4)  Cameroon (4)  Canada (9)  Chinese Taipei (1)  Colombia (10)  Cuba (6)  Czechoslovakia (15) | Denmark (13)  East Germany (11)  Ethiopia (5)  Finland (6)  France (15)  Great Britain (11)  Guyana (1)  Hungary (4)  Iran (4)  Ireland (4)  Italy (15)  Jamaica (6)  Japan (3) | Lebanon (1)  Liechtenstein (1)  Luxembourg (2)  Malta (4)  Malawi (2)  Malaysia (4)  Mexico (6)  Netherlands (11)  New Zealand (8)  Norway (7)  Peru (5)  Philippines (1)  Poland (12)  Romania (1) | San Marino (1)  Soviet Union (15)  Spain (8)  Sweden (5)  Switzerland (10)  Thailand (7)  Togo (3)  Trinidad and Tobago (6)  Turkey (6)  United States (15)  Uruguay (5)  West Germany (17)  Yugoslavia (5) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  
  ## 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 |
  | 3 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | 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) | Totals (11 entries) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
  