Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Bernt Johansson Sweden (SWE)	Giuseppe Martinelli Italy (ITA)	Mieczysław Nowicki Poland (POL)
Team time trial	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
1000m time trial	Klaus-Jürgen Grünke East Germany (GDR)	Michel Vaarten Belgium (BEL)	Niels Fredborg Denmark (DEN)
Sprint	Anton Tkáč Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Daniel Morelon France (FRA)	Jürgen Geschke East Germany (GDR)
Individual pursuit	Gregor Braun West Germany (FRG)	Herman Ponsteen Netherlands (NED)	Thomas Huschke East Germany (GDR)
Team pursuit	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

Medal table

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

References

• Official Olympic Report