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The cycling competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles consisted of three road cycling events and five track cycling events. Cycling is the use of Bicycles or - less commonly - Unicycles Tricycles Quadricycles and other similar wheeled Human powered vehicles The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Road bicycle racing is a popular Bicycle racing Sport held on roads (following the Geography of the area using Racing bicycles The Track cycling is a Bicycle racing Sport usually held on specially-built banked tracks or Velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the 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 event. A points race is a mass start Track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track

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Medal table

 Rank NationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1United States United States4329
2West Germany West Germany1225
3Australia Australia1001
Belgium Belgium1001
Italy Italy1001
6Canada Canada0202
7Switzerland Switzerland0101
8France France0011
Japan Japan0011
Mexico Mexico0011
Norway Norway0011

Medal summary

Road cycling

EventGoldSilverBronze
Men's individual
road race
United States Alexi Grewal
United States (USA)
Canada Steve Bauer
Canada (CAN)
Norway Dag Otto Lauritzen
Norway (NOR)
Women's individual
road race
United States Connie Carpenter
United States (USA)
United States Rebecca Twigg
United States (USA)
West Germany Sandra Schumacher
West Germany (FRG)
Men's team time trialItaly Italy (ITA)
Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
Switzerland Switzerland (SUI)
Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
United States United States (USA)
Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver

Track cycling

All track cycling events were for men in the 1984 Games. The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Belgium competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Italy competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Canada competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Switzerland competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. France competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Japan competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Mexico competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Norway was represented at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports These are the official results of the Men's Individual Road Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California, held on Sunday Alexi Singh Grewal (born September 8, 1960 in Aspen Colorado) is an American Olympic gold medalist and former professional Road racing The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Steven Todd Bauer (born June 12, 1959 in St Catharines, Ontario) is a former professional Road bicycle racer Canada competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Dag Otto Lauritzen (born September 12, 1956 in Grimstad) is a retired Norwegian professional cyclist. Norway was represented at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports These are the official results of the Women's Individual Road Race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California, held on Sunday Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born February 26 1957 in Madison Wisconsin) is an American former Racing cyclist and Speed skater who won four The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Rebecca Twigg (born March 26 1963 is an American former Racing cyclist, who won six World Track Cycling Championship titles in the Individual Pursuit The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Sandra Schumacher (born 25 December 1966) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer, who represented West Germany at West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Italy competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Marco Giovannetti (born 4 April 1962) is an Italian former professional Road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist who won the Vuelta Eros Poli (born August 6, 1963 in Isola della Scala, Veneto) is an Italian former professional Racing cyclist of the Switzerland competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Alfred Achermann (born July 17, 1959 in Römerswil) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Switzerland Richard Trinkler (born August 22, 1950 in Sirnach) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Switzerland Laurent Vial (born September 9, 1959 in Corcelles) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Switzerland, Benno Wiss (born July 13, 1962 in Dietwil) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Ronald ("Ron" Alexander Kiefel (born 11 April, 1960 in Denver) is a former professional Road bicycle racer from the United Clarence ("Roy" Knickman (born June 23, 1965) is a former professional Road bicycle racer from the United States, who won the Davis Phinney (born July 10, 1959 in Boulder, Colorado) is a former professional Road bicycle racer from the United States Andrew Teisher Weaver (born February 12, 1959) is a former professional Road bicycle racer from the United States, who won the bronze medal

EventGoldSilverBronze
Points raceBelgium Roger Ilegems
Belgium (BEL)
West Germany Uwe Messerschmidt
West Germany (FRG)
Mexico José Youshimatz
Mexico (MEX)
Individual pursuitUnited States Steve Hegg
United States (USA)
West Germany Rolf Gölz
West Germany (FRG)
United States Leonard Nitz
United States (USA)
Team pursuitAustralia Australia (AUS)
Michael Grenda
Kevin Nichols
Michael Turtur
Dean Woods
United States United States (USA)
David Grylls
Steve Hegg
Patrick McDonough
Leonard Nitz
West Germany West Germany (FRG)
Reinhard Alber
Rolf Gölz
Roland Günther
Michael Marx
Individual sprintUnited States Mark Gorski
United States (USA)
United States Nelson Vails
United States (USA)
Japan Tsutomo Sakamoto
Japan (JPN)
1 km time trialWest Germany Fredy Schmidtke
West Germany (FRG)
Canada Curt Harnett
Canada (CAN)
France Fabrice Colars
France (FRA)

References

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 Roger Ilegems (born December 13, 1962 in Niel) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Belgium, who was Belgium competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Uwe Messerschmidt (born January 22 1962 in Schwäbisch Gmünd) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Germany, who was a professional West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. José Manuel Youshimatz (born May 10, 1962) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from Mexico, who represented his native Mexico competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Steve Edward Hegg (born December 3, 1963 in Dana Point California) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from the The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Rolf Gölz (born September 30, 1962 in Bad Schussenried) is a retired road and Track cyclist from Germany, who was a professional West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Leonard Harvey Nitz (born September 30, 1956 in Hamilton Ohio) is a retired Track cyclist from the United States. The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Michael Grenda, OAM (born 24 April 1964 is a retired road bicycle and Track cyclist from Australia who represented his native country at the Dean Anthony Woods, OAM (born June 22, 1966) is an Australian Cyclist from Wangaratta in regional Victoria known The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. David Miles Grylls (born September 29 1957 is a retired Track cyclist from the United States. Steve Edward Hegg (born December 3, 1963 in Dana Point California) is a retired Track cyclist and Road bicycle racer from the Patrick ("Pat" McDonough (born July 22, 1961) is a retired Track cyclist from the United States. Leonard Harvey Nitz (born September 30, 1956 in Hamilton Ohio) is a retired Track cyclist from the United States. West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Rolf Gölz (born September 30, 1962 in Bad Schussenried) is a retired road and Track cyclist from Germany, who was a professional Mark Gorski (born January 6, 1960 in Chicago) is a retired Track cyclist from the United States. The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Nelson Beasley Vails (born October 13, 1960 in New York) is a retired Road and Track cyclist from the United States, The United States was the host nation of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles California. Japan competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Fredy Schmidtke (born 1 July 1961) is a retired Track cyclist who competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Curtis {"Curt" Melvin Harnett (born May 14, 1965 in Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Racing cyclist. Canada competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. France competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
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