Cycling Road at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Dates 18 – 26 July 1976
Medal Events 2

The road cycling program was the same as in 1960-72 with an individual road race and a team time trial. The individual road race was a mass start race of 177.49 km., raced on the Mont Royal Circuit. The team time trial was 100 km., with four-man teams, raced on the Trans-Canada Highway, termed the Fairview Circuit. The Soviet Union defended their team time trial gold medal, while the individual road race went to Sweden’s Bernt Johansson.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
Road Race, Individual, Men Olympic 26 July 1976 134 40
100 kilometres Team Time Trial, Men Olympic 18 July 1976 112 28
184 (184/0) 41 (41/0)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Road Race, Individual, Men Bernt JohanssonSWE Giuseppe MartinelliITA Mieczysław NowickiPOL
100 kilometres Team Time Trial, Men Soviet UnionURS PolandPOL DenmarkDEN

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 1 0 0 1
Sweden SWE 1 0 0 1
Poland POL 0 1 1 2
Italy ITA 0 1 0 1
Denmark DEN 0 0 1 1