title: Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics
text: # Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  
  The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race event.
  
  ## Road cycling
  
  ### Men’s events
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Road race details | Alexi Grewal United States | Steve Bauer Canada | Dag Otto Lauritzen Norway |
  | Team time trial details | Italy (ITA) Marcello Bartalini Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Claudio Vandelli | Switzerland (SUI) Alfred Achermann Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial Benno Wiss | United States (USA) Ron Kiefel Clarence Knickman Davis Phinney Andrew Weaver |
  
  ### Women’s events
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Road race details | Connie Carpenter United States | Rebecca Twigg United States | Sandra Schumacher West Germany |
  
  ## Track cycling
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Points race details | Roger Ilegems Belgium | Uwe Messerschmidt West Germany | José Youshimatz Mexico |
  | Pursuit, individual details | Steve Hegg United States | Rolf Gölz West Germany | Leonard Nitz United States |
  | Pursuit, team details | Australia (AUS) Michael Grenda Kevin Nichols Michael Turtur Dean Woods | United States (USA) David Grylls Steve Hegg Patrick McDonough Leonard Nitz Brent Emery | West Germany (FRG) Reinhard Alber Rolf Gölz Roland Günther Michael Marx |
  | Sprint details | Mark Gorski United States | Nelson Vails United States | Tsutomu Sakamoto Japan |
  | 1 km time trial details | Fredy Schmidtke West Germany | Curt Harnett Canada | Fabrice Colas France |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  359 cyclists from 54 nations competed.
  
  | Antigua and Barbuda (3)  Argentina (8)  Australia (12)  Austria (9)  Barbados (1)  Belgium (8)  Belize (6)  Bermuda (3)  Brazil (7)  Cameroon (5)  Canada (13)  Cayman Islands (6)  Chile (7)  China (7) | Chinese Taipei (2)  Colombia (7)  Cyprus (1)  Denmark (13)  Fiji (1)  Finland (5)  France (17)  Great Britain (16)  Greece (2)  Guatemala (1)  Guyana (3)  Hong Kong (4)  Ireland (5) | Italy (21)  Jamaica (5)  Japan (9)  Lebanon (1)  Malaysia (1)  Malawi (4)  Mexico (8)  Morocco (4)  Netherlands (16)  New Zealand (7)  Norway (10)  Peru (1)  Philippines (4)  Puerto Rico (1) | San Marino (1)  Saudi Arabia (6)  South Korea (10)  Spain (4)  Sweden (11)  Switzerland (12)  Trinidad and Tobago (1)  Uganda (2)  Uruguay (1)  United States (20)  Venezuela (2)  West Germany (20)  Yugoslavia (6) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | United States | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
  | 2 | West Germany | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
  | 3 | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
  | 6 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
  | 7 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 8 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 8 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 8 | Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 8 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (11 entries) | Totals (11 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
  