Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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The cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...

in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 consisted of three road cycling
Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

 events and five track cycling
Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....

 events. For the first time, women's cycling events were included in the Olympic program, with a single event, the individual road race. Also newly introduced in these Games was the men's points race
Points race
A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic event for men between 1984–2008 and for women 1996-2008....

 event.

Medal table

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Road cycling

Men's individual
road race
Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's individual road race
These are the official results of the Men's Individual Road Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, held on Sunday July 29, 1984...

Women's individual
road race
Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Women's individual road race
These are the official results of the Women's Individual Road Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, held on Sunday July 29, 1984. There were 45 participants in the inaugural race in Los Angeles. One cyclist who did not finish....

Men's team time trial
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Marco Giovannetti
Marco Giovannetti is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist who won the Vuelta a España in 1990. He has also won stages at the Tour de Suisse and the Giro d'Italia....


Eros Poli
Eros Poli
Eros Poli is an Italian former professional racing cyclist of the 1990s, notably employed as Mario Cipollini's lead-out man in bunch sprints....


Claudio Vandelli

Alfred Achermann
Alfred Achermann
Alfred Achermann is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional rider from 1984 to 1991. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's team time trial, alongside...


Richard Trinkler
Richard Trinkler
Richard Trinkler is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional rider from 1987 to 1989...


Laurent Vial
Laurent Vial
Laurent Vial is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional road rider in 1985...


Benno Wiss
Benno Wiss
Benno Wiss is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional road rider from 1984 to 1986. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's team time trial, alongside...


Ron Kiefel
Ron Kiefel
Ronald Alexander Kiefel is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States. Kiefel is a seven-time Tour de France racer, Olympic bronze medalist and member of the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame....


Clarence Knickman
Clarence Knickman
Clarence Knickman is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Team Road Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics...


Davis Phinney
Davis Phinney
Davis Phinney is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States. He was known as a fast sprinter, and claims to have won the most races in American history. In 1986, he became the first American to win a stage at the Tour de France, while riding on the American-based team 7-Eleven...


Andrew Weaver
Andrew Weaver
Andrew Teisher Weaver is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Team Road Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics. His winning teammates in Los Angeles, California were Ron Kiefel, Clarence Knickman, and Davis Phinney...


Track cycling

All track cycling events were for men in the 1984 Games.
Points race
Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Men's points race
These are the official results of the Men's Points Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, for which the final was held on August 3, 1984. There were a total number of 51 participants, with 23 cyclists actually competing in the final after two semi-finals .-Final...

Individual pursuit
Team pursuit
Michael Grenda
Michael Grenda
Michael Grenda, OAM is a retired road bicycle and track cyclist from Australia, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....


Kevin Nichols
Kevin Nichols
Kevin John Nichols is a former track cyclist and Olympic gold medallist.-Career:At the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, Nichols was a member of the gold winning pursuit team. Nichols also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and 1980 Summer Olympics.-References:* , from sports-reference.com;...


Michael Turtur
Michael Turtur
Mike Turtur is a former track cyclist, Olympic gold medallist, and current race director of the Tour Down Under....


Dean Woods
Dean Woods
Dean Anthony Woods, OAM is an Australian racing cyclist from Wangaratta in Victoria known for his track cycling at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games...


David Grylls
David Grylls
David Miles Grylls is a retired track cyclist from the United States. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's 4.000m team pursuit, alongside Steve Hegg, Leonard Nitz and Patrick McDonough.-External links:*...


Steve Hegg
Steve Hegg
Steve Edward Hegg is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from the United States, who was a professional rider from 1988 to 2000...


Patrick McDonough
Patrick McDonough (cyclist)
Patrick McDonough is a retired track cyclist from the United States. He represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's 4.000m team pursuit, alongside Steve Hegg, Leonard Nitz and David Grylls.-References:*...


Leonard Nitz
Leonard Nitz
Leonard Harvey Nitz is a retired track cyclist from the United States. He won the silver medal in the 4000m team pursuit and bronze in the 4000m individual pursuit at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.-References:*...


Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Rolf Gölz
Rolf Gölz is a retired road and track cyclist from Germany, who was a professional rider from 1985 to 1993. He represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where he won the silver medal in the men's individual pursuit, behind America's Steve Hegg...


Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Individual sprint
1 km time trial
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