Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

Men's cycling road race at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Mexico City, Mexico
Date	23 October 1968
Competitors	144 from 44 nations
Winning time	4:41:25
Medalists
Pierfranco Vianelli   Italy   Leif Mortensen   Denmark   Gösta Pettersson   Sweden

Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men
1000 m time trial		men
Tandem		men

The men's individual road race was a road bicycle racing event held as part of the Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. 144 cyclists from 44 nations took part. It was held on 23 October 1968. The course, just short of 25 kilometres, was covered 8 times for a total distance of 196.2 kilometres.^[1]

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Nationality	Time
01 !	Pierfranco Vianelli	Italy	4:41:25
02 !	Leif Mortensen	Denmark	4:42:49
03 !	Gösta Pettersson	Sweden	4:43:15
4	Stéphan Abrahamian	France	4:43:36
5	René Pijnen	Netherlands	4:43:36
6	Jean-Pierre Monseré	Belgium	4:43:51
7	Tomas Pettersson	Sweden	4:43:58
8	Giovanni Bramucci	Italy	4:43:58
9	Martín Rodríguez	Colombia	4:43:58
10	Marian Kegel	Poland	4:44:00
11	Jan Krekels	Netherlands	4:44:09
12	Burkhard Ebert	West Germany	4:44:10
13	Thorleif Andresen	Norway	4:44:10
14	Tore Milsett	Norway	4:44:12
15	Álvaro Pachón	Colombia	4:44:13
16	José Gómez	Spain	4:44:13
17	Valery Yardy	Soviet Union	4:44:15
18	Roger De Vlaeminck	Belgium	4:44:24
19	André Dierickx	Belgium	4:45:32
20	Alain Vasseur	France	4:45:36
21	Imre Géra	Hungary	4:45:57
22	Saturnino Rustrián	Guatemala	4:46:13
23	Jan Smolík	Czechoslovakia	4:46:30
24	Harrie Jansen	Netherlands	4:46:30
25	Cvitko Bilić	Yugoslavia	4:46:31
26	Ole Højlund Pedersen	Denmark	4:46:31
27	Agustín Juárez	Mexico	4:46:32
28	Luis Zubero	Spain	4:46:34
29	Jørgen Emil Hansen	Denmark	4:46:34
30	Pedro Sánchez	Colombia	4:46:37
31	Flavio Martini	Italy	4:47:56
32	Yury Dmitriyev	Soviet Union	4:47:57
33	Daniel Ducreux	France	4:47:57
34	Dave Rollinson	Great Britain	4:47:58
35	Erik Pettersson	Sweden	4:47:58
36	Heriberto Díaz	Mexico	4:47:59
37	Raimo Honkanen	Finland	4:47:59
38	Svend Erik Bjerg	Denmark	4:48:03
39	Rudi Valenčič	Yugoslavia	4:48:03
40	Roberto Breppe	Argentina	4:48:07
41	Ferenc Keserű	Hungary	4:50:30
42	Miguel Lasa	Spain	4:51:05
43	Jesús Sarabia	Mexico	4:51:05
44	John Howard	United States	4:52:45
45	Jürgen Tschan	West Germany	4:52:50
46	Mauno Uusivirta	Finland	4:52:50
47	Jan Erik Gustavsen	Norway	4:54:41
48	Evaristo Oliva	Guatemala	4:57:07
49	Jorge Inés	Guatemala	4:57:07
50	Brian Jolly	Great Britain	4:57:42
51	Curt Söderlund	Sweden	5:01:12
52	Des Thomson	New Zealand	5:02:33
53	Tekeste Woldu	Ethiopia	5:05:12
54	Roger Gilson	Luxembourg	5:05:12
55	Marcel Roy	Canada	5:05:13
56	Ørnulf Andresen	Norway	5:05:17
57	Ole Wackström	Finland	5:05:18
58	András Takács	Hungary	5:05:21
59	Kazimierz Jasiński	Poland	5:08:25
60	Gerard Lettoli	San Marino	5:10:22
61	Enzo Frisoni	San Marino	5:12:46
62	Zygmunt Hanusik	Poland	5:20:59
63	Miguel Ángel Sánchez	Costa Rica	5:20:59
64	Joe Jones	Canada	5:30:13
AC	Juan Alves	Argentina	DNF
	Héctor Cassina	Argentina	DNF
	Gerardo Cavallieri	Argentina	DNF
	Ronald Jonker	Australia	DNF
	Peter McDermott	Australia	DNF
	Kevin Morgan	Australia	DNF
	Donald Wilson	Australia	DNF
	Colin Forde	Barbados	DNF
	Kensley Reece	Barbados	DNF
	Richard Roett	Barbados	DNF
	Michael Stoute	Barbados	DNF
	Jozef Schoeters	Belgium	DNF
	Jules Béland	Canada	DNF
	Yves Landry	Canada	DNF
	Jean Barnabe	DR Congo	DNF
	Constantin Kabemba	DR Congo	DNF
	Samuel Kibamba	DR Congo	DNF
	Ignace Mandjambi	DR Congo	DNF
	Miguel Samacá	Colombia	DNF
	José Sánchez	Costa Rica	DNF
	Humberto Solano	Costa Rica	DNF
	José Manuel Soto	Costa Rica	DNF
	Sergio Martínez	Cuba	DNF
	Roberto Menéndez	Cuba	DNF
	Ulises Váldez	Cuba	DNF
	Raúl Marcelo Vázquez	Cuba	DNF
	Noé Medina	Ecuador	DNF
	Victor Morales	Ecuador	DNF
	Arnulfo Pozo	Ecuador	DNF
	Hipólito Pozo	Ecuador	DNF
	Mauricio Bolaños	El Salvador	DNF
	Francisco Funes	El Salvador	DNF
	David Miranda	El Salvador	DNF
	Juan Molina	El Salvador	DNF
	Agustín Tamames	Spain	DNF
	Yemane Negassi	Ethiopia	DNF
	Mehari Okubamicael	Ethiopia	DNF
	Mikael Saglimbeni	Ethiopia	DNF
	Raimo Suikkanen	Finland	DNF
	Jean-Pierre Paranteau	France	DNF
	Ortwin Czarnowski	West Germany	DNF
	Dieter Koslar	West Germany	DNF
	Billy Bilsland	Great Britain	DNF
	Les West	Great Britain	DNF
	Francisco Cuque	Guatemala	DNF
	Tibor Magyar	Hungary	DNF
	Peter Doyle	Ireland	DNF
	Morris Foster	Ireland	DNF
	Liam Horner	Ireland	DNF
	George Artin	Iraq	DNF
	Tino Conti	Italy	DNF
	Gwon Jung-hyeon	South Korea	DNF
	Tarek Abou Al Dahab	Lebanon	DNF
	Solo Razafinarivo	Madagascar	DNF
	Ng Joo Pong	Malaysia	DNF
	Johari Ramli	Malaysia	DNF
	Gabriel Cuéllar	Mexico	DNF
	Joop Zoetemelk	Netherlands	DNF
	Bryce Beeston	New Zealand	DNF
	John Dean	New Zealand	DNF
	Richie Thomson	New Zealand	DNF
	Zenon Czechowski	Poland	DNF
	Emil Rusu	Romania	DNF
	Bruno Hubschmid	Switzerland	DNF
Petr Hladík	Czechoslovakia	DNF
Somchai Chantarasamrit	Thailand	DNF
Suriyong Hemint	Thailand	DNF
Somkuan Seehapant	Thailand	DNF
Chainarong Sophonpong	Thailand	DNF
Deng Chueng-hwai	Chinese Taipei	DNF
Liu Cheng-tao	Chinese Taipei	DNF
Shue Ming-shu	Chinese Taipei	DNF
Vladislav Nelyubin	Soviet Union	DNF
Anatoliy Starkov	Soviet Union	DNF
Daniel Butler	United States	DNF
David Chauner	United States	DNF
Wes Wessberg	United States	DNF
Bùi Văn Hoàng	South Vietnam	DNF
Trương Kim Hùng	South Vietnam	DNF
Tanasije Kuvalja	Yugoslavia	DNF

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