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Road Race, Team, Men

Date12 August 1920 — 9:00
StatusOlympic
LocationGarden City Velodroom, Wilrijk, Antwerpen
Participants44 from 11 countries
Format175 kilometre time trial, the riders left at four minute intervals from Merksem and rode into Antwerp. The riders rode from Merksem to Turnhout, and then Mol (96 km), Heist-op-den-Berg (135 km), Lier, and finished near the Garden City Velodrome in Antwerp. The teams finish was determined by the total time of the four finishers.

The team event was decided by adding up the times of a nation’s four riders in the individual road race. The team event was won by France, with Sweden second and Belgium third. Great Britain might have contended for a bronze medal, but one of their riders, Edward Newell, broke his frame at 134¾ km and had to abandon. The best American was Ernest Kockler, of Chicago, who finished in 4-55:12.2. August Nogara of the United States was also riding well when he collided with a chicken in the road at 150 km, crashing and costing him a lot of time.

PosBibCompetitorsNOCTime
1FranceFRA19-16:43.4Gold
19Fernand Canteloube 4-42:54.4
7Georges Détreille 4-46:13.4
42Achille Souchard 4-51:56.0
31Marcel Gobillot 4-55:39.6
2SwedenSWE19-23:10.0Silver
40Harry Stenqvist 4-40:01.8
17Ragnar Malm 4-46:22.0
5Axel Wilhelm Persson 4-53:43.6
29Sigge Lundberg 5-03:02.6
3BelgiumBEL19-28:44.4Bronze
24Bernard Janssens 4-44:20.6
12Albert De Bunne 4-45:23.4
35André Vercruyssen 4-55:41.4
46Albert Wyckmans 5-03:19.0
4DenmarkDEN19-53:32.2
32Christian Johansen 4-52:00.2
8Arnold Lundgren 4-58:01.0
43Kristian Frisch 5-01:18.8
20Ahrensborg Clausen 5-02:12.2
52ItalyITA20-26:54.0
Federico Gay 4-57:21.8
37Pietro Bestetti 5-02:15.0
26Camillo Arduino 5-05:26.8
14Pino Guindani 5-21:50.4
6NetherlandsNED20-28:39.2
18Piet Ikelaar 4-46:54.0
41Nico de Jong 5-06:46.6
6Arie van der Stel 5-12:42.6
30Piet Kloppenburg 5-22:16.0
7United StatesUSA21-32:36.6
45Ernest Kockler 4-55:12.2
23August Nogara 5-20:08.0
34James Freeman 5-29:26.2
11John Otto 5-47:50.2
8NorwayNOR21-35:11.8
1Helge Fladby 5-12:50.2
36Paul Henrichsen 5-13:23.2
13Olaf Nygaard 5-24:56.6
25Thorstein Stryken 5-44:01.8
9CzechoslovakiaTCH22-10:01.8
33Josef Procházka 5-23:31.4
10Ladislav Janoušek 5-29:23.4
22František Kundert 5-38:07.0
44Bohumil Rameš 5-39:00.0
DNFGreat BritainGBR
16Harry Genders 4-50:23.6
39Leon Meredith 4-58:55.6
4Dave Marsh 5-09:23.6
28Edward Newell DNF
DNFCanadaCAN
15Herb MacDonald 5-20:34.6
27Harry Martin 5-30:16.2
38Norman Webster DNF
3Harold Bounsall DNF