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Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics - Men's road race

Men's individual road race
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue Käpylä, Finland
Date 2 August 1952
Competitors 154 from 31 nations
Winning time 5:06:03.4
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) André Noyelle  Belgium
2nd, silver medalist(s) Robert Grondelaers  Belgium
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Edi Ziegler  Germany
← 1948
1956 →
1st, gold medalist(s) André Noyelle  Belgium
2nd, silver medalist(s) Robert Grondelaers  Belgium
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Edi Ziegler  Germany

The Men's Individual Road Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 2 August, the 2nd last day of the Olympics on an 11,2 km course running counter-clockwise from Käpylä through Pakila and Maunula and back to Käpylä. The course was circled seventeen times, so the total length of the competition was 190,4 km. About half of the road was hard-surfaced, the other half sand-surfaced.

There were 154 entries from 31 nations and 112 participants from 30 nations.


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