Cycling at the Friendship Games

The cycling competition at the Friendship Games consisted of two road cycling and five track cycling events (all men's). The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Medal summary

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Road cycling

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race   Alexandr Zinovyev (URS) 4:44.21   Uwe Raab (GDR) 4:44.21   Andrzej Mierzejewski (POL) 4:44.21
Men's team road race   East Germany (GDR)
Uwe Ampler
Falk Boden
Bernd Drogan
Mario Kummer
2:01.35   Soviet Union (URS)
Sergei Navolokin
Alexandr Zinovyev
Yevgeniy Korolkov
Asiat Saitov
2:01.46   Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Milan Křen
Milan Jurčo
Vlastibor Konečný
Michal Klasa
2:03.54

Track cycling

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
(50 km)
  Miklós Somogyi (HUN) 81 points   Martin Penc (TCH) 77 points   Jonas Romanovas (URS) 73 points
Individual pursuit
(4 km)
  Gintautas Umaras (URS) 4:33.66   Bernd Dittert (GDR) 4:33.88   Ryszard Dawidowicz (POL) 4:40.21
Team pursuit
(4 km)
  East Germany (GDR)
Bernd Dittert
Mario Hernig
Volker Winkler
Carsten Wolf
Gerald Mortag
  Soviet Union (URS)
Marat Ganeyev
Aleksandr Krasnov
Valery Movchan
Vasily Shpundov
  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Teodor Černý
František Raboň
Aleš Trčka
Pavel Soukup
František Klouček
Sprint   Lutz Hesslich (GDR)   Sergei Kopylov (URS)   Vratislav Šustr (TCH)
1 km time trial   Sergei Kopylov (URS) 1:03.56   Maic Malchov (GDR) 1:04.17   Milan Hájek (TCH) 1:05.67

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Soviet Union (URS)*3317
2  East Germany (GDR)*3306
3  Hungary (HUN)1001
4  Czechoslovakia (TCH)0145
5  Poland (POL)0022
Totals (5 entries)77721

See also

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References

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  • Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 193–195, 212–213. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
  • Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 86–87. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.