Road race at the Olympics

Road race at the Olympic Games
The first road race winner, Aristidis Konstantinidis, in 1896
Overview
Sport	Cycling
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1896, 1936–2020 Women: 1984–2020
Reigning champion
Men	Richard Carapaz (ECU)
Women	Anna Kiesenhofer (AUT)

The road race is one of two road bicycle racing events held at the Summer Olympics, the other being the time trial. The road race is a mass start, distinguished from the separate starts of the time trial. The men's road race was first held at the 1896, was not held again for 40 years, then has been held every Summer Games since the 1936 Summer Olympics. The women's event was first contested at the 1984 Summer Olympics, being the first women's cycling event (track events were added in 1988).

A team event, with the results of the individual event being used to place the teams, was held from 1936 to 1956 (4 times).

Medalists[]

Men[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens details	Aristidis Konstantinidis  Greece	August von Gödrich  Germany	Edward Battell  Great Britain
1936 Berlin details	Robert Charpentier  France	Guy Lapébie  France	Ernst Nievergelt  Switzerland
1948 London details	José Beyaert  France	Gerrit Voorting  Netherlands	Lode Wouters  Belgium
1952 Helsinki details	André Noyelle  Belgium	Robert Grondelaers  Belgium	Edi Ziegler  Germany
1956 Melbourne details	Ercole Baldini  Italy	Arnaud Geyre  France	Alan Jackson  Great Britain
1960 Rome details	Viktor Kapitonov  Soviet Union	Livio Trapè  Italy	Willy Vanden Berghen  Belgium
1964 Tokyo details	Mario Zanin  Italy	Kjell Rodian  Denmark	Walter Godefroot  Belgium
1968 Mexico City details	Pierfranco Vianelli  Italy	Leif Mortensen  Denmark	Gösta Pettersson  Sweden
1972 Munich details	Hennie Kuiper  Netherlands	Clyde Sefton  Australia	Not awarded
1976 Montreal details	Bernt Johansson  Sweden	Giuseppe Martinelli  Italy	Mieczysław Nowicki  Poland
1980 Moscow details	Sergei Sukhoruchenkov  Soviet Union	Czesław Lang  Poland	Yuri Barinov  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Alexi Grewal  United States	Steve Bauer  Canada	Dag Otto Lauritzen  Norway
1988 Seoul details	Olaf Ludwig  East Germany	Bernd Gröne  West Germany	Christian Henn  West Germany
1992 Barcelona details	Fabio Casartelli  Italy	Erik Dekker  Netherlands	Dainis Ozols  Latvia
1996 Atlanta details	Pascal Richard  Switzerland	Rolf Sørensen  Denmark	Max Sciandri  Great Britain
2000 Sydney details	Jan Ullrich  Germany	Alexander Vinokourov  Kazakhstan	Andreas Klöden  Germany
2004 Athens details	Paolo Bettini  Italy	Sérgio Paulinho  Portugal	Axel Merckx  Belgium
2008 Beijing details	Samuel Sánchez  Spain	Fabian Cancellara  Switzerland	Alexandr Kolobnev  Russia
2012 London details	Alexander Vinokourov  Kazakhstan	Rigoberto Urán  Colombia	Alexander Kristoff  Norway
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Greg Van Avermaet  Belgium	Jakob Fuglsang  Denmark	Rafał Majka  Poland
2020 Tokyo details	Richard Carapaz  Ecuador	Wout van Aert  Belgium	Tadej Pogačar  Slovenia

Multiple medalists[]

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Alexander Vinokourov	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2000–2012	1	1	0	2

Medalists by country[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	5	2	0	7
2	Belgium (BEL)	2	2	4	8
3	France (FRA)	2	2	0	4
4	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	1	3
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
6	Germany (GER)	1	1	2	4
7	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	1	3
8	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	0	2
9	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
10	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
15	Denmark (DEN)	0	4	0	4
16	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
17	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
18	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
22	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	3	3
23	Norway (NOR)	0	0	2	2
24	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1

Women[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1984 Los Angeles details	Connie Carpenter  United States	Rebecca Twigg  United States	Sandra Schumacher  West Germany
1988 Seoul details	Monique Knol  Netherlands	Jutta Niehaus  West Germany	Laima Zilporytė  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona details	Kathryn Watt  Australia	Jeannie Longo  France	Monique Knol  Netherlands
1996 Atlanta details	Jeannie Longo  France	Imelda Chiappa  Italy	Clara Hughes  Canada
2000 Sydney details	Leontien Zijlaard  Netherlands	Hanka Kupfernagel  Germany	Diana Žiliūtė  Lithuania
2004 Athens details	Sara Carrigan  Australia	Judith Arndt  Germany	Olga Slyusareva  Russia
2008 Beijing details	Nicole Cooke  Great Britain	Emma Johansson  Sweden	Tatiana Guderzo  Italy
2012 London details	Marianne Vos  Netherlands	Lizzie Armitstead  Great Britain	Olga Zabelinskaya  Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Anna van der Breggen  Netherlands	Emma Johansson  Sweden	Elisa Longo Borghini  Italy
2020 Tokyo details	Anna Kiesenhofer  Austria	Annemiek van Vleuten  Netherlands	Elisa Longo Borghini  Italy

Multiple medallists[]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Jeannie Longo	France (FRA)	1992–1996	1	1	0	2
2	Monique Knol	Netherlands (NED)	1988–1992	1	0	1	2
3	Emma Johansson	Sweden (SWE)	2008–2016	0	2	0	2
4	Elisa Longo Borghini	Italy (ITA)	2016-2020	0	0	2	2

Medallists by country[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	4	1	0	5
2	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
3	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
	United States (USA)	1	1	0	2
6	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
7	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
9	Italy (ITA)	0	1	3	4
10	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	1	2
11	Russia (RUS)	0	0	2	2
12	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	1	1

Men's team[]

A men's team event was held for four Games—1936, 1948, 1952, and 1956. It was not a separate competition, but an event that involved the results of the individual road race. The Belgian team, winners in 1948, were unaware that there was a team competition and left London without receiving their medals. For the first three editions of the event, the times of the fastest three cyclists (out of a maximum four individual competitors) for each nation were summed. In the final edition in 1956, a point-for-place system was used instead. In 1936 and 1948, only the top three cyclists for each team were awarded medals. In 1952 and 1956, all members of the team—including the cyclist whose score did not count—were medalists.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1936 Berlin details	France (FRA) Robert Charpentier Robert Dorgebray Guy Lapébie	Switzerland (SUI) Edgar Buchwalder Ernst Nievergelt Kurt Ott	Belgium (BEL) Auguste Garrebeek Armand Putzeyse Jean-François Van Der Motte
1948 London details	Belgium (BEL) Lode Wouters Leon De Lathouwer Eugène Van Roosbroeck	Great Britain (GBR) Bob Maitland Gordon Thomas Ian Scott	France (FRA) José Beyaert Alain Moineau Jacques Dupont
1952 Helsinki details	Belgium (BEL) André Noyelle Robert Grondelaers Lucien Victor Rik Van Looy	Italy (ITA) Dino Bruni Vincenzo Zucconelli Gianni Ghidini Bruno Monti	France (FRA) Jacques Anquetil Alfred Tonello Claude Rouer Roland Bezamat
1956 Melbourne details	France (FRA) Arnaud Geyre Maurice Moucheraud Michel Vermeulin René Abadie	Great Britain (GBR) Alan Jackson Arthur Brittain William Holmes Harold Reynolds	United Team of Germany (EUA) Horst Tüller Gustav-Adolf Schur Reinhold Pommer Erich Hagen

Medalists by country[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	2	0	2	4
2	Belgium (BEL)	2	0	1	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
4	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	0	1	1

Intercalated Games[]

The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.^[1]

Fernand Vast won the 1906 title, with France sweeping the medals as Maurice Bardonneau finished second and third.^[2]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1906 Athens	Fernand Vast (FRA)	Maurice Bardonneau (FRA)	(FRA)

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