Cycling at the Friendship Games
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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.
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
competition at the Friendship Games
Friendship Games
The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles....
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
Schleiz
Schleiz is a town in the district of Saale-Orla-Kreis in Thuringia, Germany.- Location :Schleiz is in the Thuringian Vogtland area, an area of wooded hills on the borders of Thuringia, Saxony, Bavaria and the Czech Republic...
, 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
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
between 18 and 22 August 1984.
Road cycling
Men's individual road race |
4:44.21 | 4:44.21 | 4:44.21 | |||
Men's team road race |
German Democratic Republic Uwe Ampler Uwe Ampler Uwe Ampler is a retired track and road cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Jan Schur, Mario Kummer, and Maik Landsmann. His father, Klaus Ampler, was... Falk Boden Bernd Drogan Mario Kummer Mario Kummer Mario Kummer is a retired track and road racing cyclist from East Germany, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's team time trial, alongside Uwe Ampler, Jan Schur and Maik Landsmann... |
2:01.35 | Soviet Union Sergei Navolokin Alexandr Zinovyev Yevgeniy Korolkov Asiat Saitov |
2:01.46 | Czechoslovakia Milan Kren Milan Jurčo Milan Jurčo Milan Jurčo was a Czechoslovak professional road bicycle racer.-Palmares:1981... Vlastibor Konecny Michal Klasa |
2:03.54 |
Track cycling
Points race (50 km) |
81 points | 77 points | 73 points | |||
Individual pursuit (4 km) |
4:33.66 | 4:33.88 | 4:40.21 | |||
Team pursuit (4 km) |
German Democratic Republic Bernd Ditter Mario Hernig Volker Winkler Carsten Wolf Carsten Wolf Carsten Wolf is an East German racing cyclist, who competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung Dynamo.He won the silver medal at the Olympic games in Seoul 1988.- References :... Gerald Mortag |
Soviet Union Marat Ganeyev Marat Ganeyev Marat Ganeyev is a retired track cyclist from Russia, who won the bronze medal for the Soviet Union in the men's points race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He was a professional road cyclist from 1989 to 1998.-References:... Alexander Krasnov Valeriy Movchan Vasily Shpundov |
Czechoslovakia Teodor Cerny František Raboň Ales Trcka Pavel Soukup Frantisek Kloucek |
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Individual sprint | ||||||
1 km time trial | 1:03.56 | 1:04.17 | 1:05.67 | |||
Medal table
1 | Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
2 | German Democratic Republic | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
3 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
5 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Total | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |