Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem

Men's cycling tandem at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Velodrome, Rome
Date	26-27 August 1960
Competitors	24 from 12 nations
Medalists
Giuseppe Beghetto, Sergio Bianchetto  Italy Jürgen Simon, Lothar Stäber  United Team of Germany Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Leonov  Soviet Union
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Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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The men's tandem at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy was held from 26 to 27 August 1960. There were 24 participants from 12 nations.^[1]

Competition format

Tandem cycling features a series of one-on-one, head-to-head races between teams. The 1960 Olympic competition included six rounds: heats, a two-round repechage, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.^[2]

• Heats: Because there were 14 teams entered, 7 heats were scheduled. The heats were not adjusted after 2 teams withdrew, essentially providing the teams in those heats with a bye. Otherwise, the winner of each heat advanced to the quarterfinals; the loser was relegated to the repechage.
• Repechage: There was a two-round repechage. One of the 5 teams that had lost in the heats did not contest the repechage. The remaining 4 teams paired off into two heats; the winner of each advanced to the repechage final while the loser was eliminated. The repechage final allowed the winner to advance to the quarterfinals; the loser was eliminated.
• Quarterfinals: Beginning with the quarterfinals, each match was best-of-three races. There were 4 quarterfinals contested by the 7 heat winners and 1 repechage winner. The winner of each quarterfinal advanced to the semifinals.
• Semifinals: The winner of each semifinal advanced to the gold medal final. The loser of each was scheduled to compete in a bronze medal final, though this was cancelled due to an injury withdrawal.
• Finals: A gold medal final and a bronze medal final were scheduled, but only the gold medal final was held.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	United Team of Germany	Jürgen Simon Lothar Stäber	11.2	Q
2	Australia	Ian Browne Geoff Smith	N/A	R

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	France	Roland Surrugue Michel Scob	11.0	Q
–	Pakistan	Muhammad Ashiq Abdul Razzaq Baloch	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Soviet Union	Boris Vasilyev Vladimir Leonov	11.2	Q
2	Netherlands	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen	N/A	R

Heat 4

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto Sergio Bianchetto	10.9	Q
–	Hungary	R. Bicskei A. Meszaros	DNS

Heat 5

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	David Handley Eric Thompson	10.9	Q
2	Mexico	Luis Muciño José Luis Tellez	N/A	R

Heat 6

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Czechoslovakia	Juraj Miklušica Dušan Škvarenina	11.0	Q
2	South Africa	Les Haupt Syd Byrnes	N/A	R WD

Heat 7

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	United States	Jack Hartman David Sharp	11.3	Q
2	Switzerland	Peter Vogel Peter Hirzel	N/A	R

Repechage heats

Repechage heat 1

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Netherlands	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen	11.5	Q
2	Switzerland	Peter Vogel Peter Hirzel	N/A

Repechage heat 2

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Australia	Ian Browne Geoff Smith	11.2	Q
2	Mexico	Luis Muciño José Luis Tellez	N/A

Repechage final

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Time	Notes
1	Netherlands	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen	11.0	Q
2	Australia	Ian Browne Geoff Smith	N/A

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Notes
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
1	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto Sergio Bianchetto	1	10.2	1	10.5	—		Q
2	United States	Jack Hartman David Sharp	2	N/A	2	N/A

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Notes
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
1	Soviet Union	Boris Vasilyev Vladimir Leonov	1	11.4	1	10.5	—		Q
2	Great Britain	David Handley Eric Thompson	2	N/A	2	N/A

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Notes
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
1	Netherlands	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen	2	N/A	1	10.6	1	10.9	Q
2	France	Roland Surrugue Michel Scob	1	10.9	2	N/A	2	N/A

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Notes
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
1	United Team of Germany	Jürgen Simon Lothar Stäber	1	11.0	1	10.8	—		Q
2	Czechoslovakia	Juraj Miklušica Dušan Škvarenina	2	N/A	2	N/A

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

The Dutch team crashed during the second race and were unable to continue the contest.

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Notes
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
1	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto Sergio Bianchetto	1	10.5	1	10.8	—		Q
2	Netherlands	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen	2	N/A	2	DNF			B

Semifinal 2

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Notes
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
1	United Team of Germany	Jürgen Simon Lothar Stäber	1	11.0	1	11.0	—		Q
2	Soviet Union	Boris Vasilyev Vladimir Leonov	2	N/A	2	N/A			B

Finals

Bronze medal final

The Dutch team did not start the bronze medal final after crashing during the semifinals.

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
	Soviet Union	Boris Vasilyev Vladimir Leonov	Walkover
4	Netherlands	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen

Gold medal final

Rank	Nation	Cyclists	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3
			Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
	Italy	Giuseppe Beghetto Sergio Bianchetto	1	10.7	1	10.3	—
	United Team of Germany	Jürgen Simon Lothar Stäber	2	N/A	2	N/A

Final classification

Rank	Cyclists	Nation
	Giuseppe Beghetto Sergio Bianchetto	Italy
	Jürgen Simon Lothar Stäber	United Team of Germany
	Boris Vasilyev Vladimir Leonov	Soviet Union
4	Rinus Paul Mees Gerritsen	Netherlands
5	Roland Surrugue Michel Scob	France
	David Handley Eric Thompson	Great Britain
	Juraj Miklušica Dušan Škvarenina	Czechoslovakia
	Jack Hartman David Sharp	United States
9	Ian Browne Geoff Smith	Australia
10	Peter Vogel Peter Hirzel	Switzerland
	Luis Muciño José Luis Tellez	Mexico
12	Les Haupt Syd Byrnes	South Africa

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