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Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial

Cycling - Men's team time trial
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue Artesia Freeway, Buena Park, California
Dates 5 August
Competitors 104 from 26 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
 Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
 Switzerland
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
 United States
1980
1988
1st, gold medalist(s) Marcello Bartalini
Marco Giovannetti
Eros Poli
Claudio Vandelli
 Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s) Alfred Achermann
Richard Trinkler
Laurent Vial
Benno Wiss
 Switzerland
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Ron Kiefel
Clarence Knickman
Davis Phinney
Andrew Weaver
 United States

The men's team time trial cycling event at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place on 5 August and was one of eight cycling events at the 1984 Olympics. The qualification and quarter finals were on 2 August and the semi finals and finals on 3 August.

The Italian team recorded a dominant victory by winning by 4:10 over Switzerland. The Italian team was one of the first teams to use modern carbon-fiber disc wheels, which are now commonly used in time trials. Their time of 1h 58:28 was the fastest time ever recorded over 100 km in a team time trial, and would have been faster without a flat tire that cost them 20 seconds to change the wheel. The venue was a 15½-mile stretch of the Artesia Freeway.


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