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Road Race, Team, Men

Date12 August 1920 — 9:00
StatusOlympic
LocationGarden City Velodroom, Wilrijk, Antwerpen
Participants44 from 11 countries
Format175 kilometre time trial, the riders left at four minute intervals from Merxem and rode into Antwerp. The riders rode from Merksem to Turnhout, and then Molt (96 km.), Heyst-op-den-Berg (135 km.), Lierre, and finished back at Antwerp, three kilometres from the velodrome. The teams finish was determined by the total time of the four finishers.

The team event was decided by adding up the times of a nation’s four riders in the individual road race. The team event was won by France, with Sweden second and Belgium third. Great Britain might have contended for a bronze medal, but one of their riders, Edward Newell, broke his frame at 134¾ km. and had to abandon. The best American was Ernest Kockler of Chicago, who finished in 4-55:12.2. But August Nogara of the United States was also riding well when he collided with a chicken in the road at 150 km., crashing and costing him a lot of time.

PosBibCompetitorsNOCTime
1FranceFRA19-16:43.4Gold
Fernand Canteloube 4-42:54.4
Georges Détreille 4-46:13.4
Achille Souchard 4-51:56.0
Marcel Gobillot 4-55:39.6
2SwedenSWE19-23:10.0Silver
Harry Stenqvist 4-40:01.8
Ragnar Malm 4-46:22.0
Axel Wilhelm Persson 4-53:43.6
Sigge Lundberg 5-03:02.6
3BelgiumBEL19-28:44.4Bronze
Bernard Janssens 4-44:20.6
Albert De Bunné 4-45:23.4
André Vercruyssen 4-55:41.4
Albert Wyckmans 5-03:19.0
4DenmarkDEN19-53:32.2
Christian Johansen 4-52:00.2
Arnold Lundgren 4-58:01.0
Kristian Frisch 5-01:18.8
Ahrensborg Clausen 5-02:12.2
5ItalyITA20-26:54.0
Federico Gay 4-57:21.8
Pietro Bestetti 5-02:15.0
Camillo Arduino 5-05:26.8
Dante Guindani 5-21:50.4
6NetherlandsNED20-28:39.2
Piet Ikelaar 4-46:54.0
Nico de Jong 5-06:46.6
Arie van der Stel 5-12:42.6
Piet Kloppenburg 5-22:16.0
7United StatesUSA21-32:36.6
Ernest Kockler 4-55:12.2
August Nogara 5-20:08.0
James Freeman 5-29:26.2
John Otto 5-47:50.2
8NorwayNOR21-35:11.8
Helge Fladby 5-12:50.2
Paul Henrichsen 5-13:23.2
Olaf Nygaard 5-24:56.6
Thorstein Stryken 5-44:01.8
9CzechoslovakiaTCH22-10:01.8
Josef Procházka 5-23:31.4
Ladislav Janoušek 5-29:23.4
František Kundert 5-38:07.0
Bohumil Rameš 5-39:00.0
DNFGreat BritainGBR
Harry Genders 4-50:23.6
Leon Meredith 4-58:55.6
Dave Marsh 5-09:23.6
Edward Newell AC/DNF
DNFCanadaCAN
Herb MacDonald 5-20:34.6
Harry Martin 5-30:16.2
Norman Webster AC/DNF
Harold Bounsall AC/DNF