Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venues	Mont Royal Park Montreal Olympic Velodrome
Date	18 -24 July 1976
Competitors	295 from 49 nations
← 1972 1980 →

Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Individual road race	men
Team time trial	men
Track cycling
Track time trial	men
Individual pursuit	men
Team pursuit	men
Sprint	men
v t e

The cycling competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only. The 2000m tandem event, contested at the previous 13 Games since 1908, was dropped from the Olympic cycling program.^[1]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race details	Bernt Johansson  Sweden	Giuseppe Martinelli  Italy	Mieczysław Nowicki  Poland
Team time trial details	Soviet Union (URS) Aavo Pikkuus Valery Chaplygin Anatoly Chukanov Vladimir Kaminsky	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Tadeusz Mytnik Mieczysław Nowicki Stanisław Szozda	Denmark (DEN) Jørn Lund Verner Blaudzun Gert Frank Jørgen Hansen

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit details	Gregor Braun  West Germany	Herman Ponsteen  Netherlands	Thomas Huschke  East Germany
Team pursuit details	West Germany (FRG) Peter Vonhof Gregor Braun Hans Lutz Günther Schumacher	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Sokolov Vladimir Osokin Aleksandr Perov Vitaly Petrakov	Great Britain (GBR) Ian Hallam Ian Banbury Michael Bennett Robin Croker
Sprint details	Anton Tkáč  Czechoslovakia	Daniel Morelon  France	Jürgen Geschke  East Germany
1 km time trial details	Klaus-Jürgen Grünke  East Germany	Michel Vaarten  Belgium	Niels Fredborg  Denmark

295 cyclists from 49 nations competed.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany	2	0	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
3	East Germany	1	0	2	3
4	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
6	Poland	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
11	Denmark	0	0	2	2
12	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		6	6	6	18