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Road Race, Men

Date	2 August 1952 — 11:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Käpylä, Helsinki
Participants	111 from 30 countries
Format	190.4 kilometres. mass start race. 17 laps of 11.2 lap course.

The 1952 Olympic road race was contested over 17 laps of an 11.2 km. course, which was on Koskelantie Street in Käpyla. The course was not overly difficult in terms of climbs, but had few flat sections, consisting of rolling hills throughout. The Belgian riders rode as a team and on the 11th lap, they broke away, accompanied by Edi Ziegler of Germany, and Jules Maenen of the Netherlands. Maenen held on for three laps but was dropped by the Belgians – André Noyelle, Robert Grondelaers, and Lucien Victor. At the start of the final lap, Noyelle dropped the other three leaders and opened up a big lead quickly. He held on to win the gold medal. With five kilometers remaining, Grondelaers broke Ziegler and Victor, and rode on to the silver medal. The Belgian medal sweep was ruined when Ziegler outsprinted Victor.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	André Noyelle	BEL	5-06:03.4	–	Gold
2	Robert Grondelaers	BEL	–	at 0:47.8	Silver
3	Edi Ziegler	GER	–	at 1:44.1	Bronze
4	Lucien Victor	BEL	–	at 1:48.6
5	Dino Bruni	ITA	–	at 4:50.6
6	Vincenzo Zucconelli	ITA	–	at 5:13.1
7	Gianni Ghidini	ITA	–	at 5:13.4
8	Oskar Zeißner	GER	–	at 5:15.1
9	Hans Andresen	DEN	–	at 5:15.1
10	Arend van 't Hof	NED	–	at 5:15.6
11	André Moes	LUX	–	at 5:15.6
12	Jacques Anquetil	FRA	–	at 5:15.6
13	Alfred Tonello	FRA	–	at 5:16.6
14	Roger Ludwig	LUX	–	at 5:16.6
15	Bruno Monti	ITA	–	at 5:31.6
16	Yngve Lundh	SWE	–	at 6:11.8
17	Rolf Graf	SUI	–	at 6:41.9
18	Stig Mårtensson	SWE	–	at 6:56.6
19	Jørgen Frank Rasmussen	DEN	–	at 8:06.0
20	Josef Schraner	SUI	–	at 9:02.7
21	Allan Carlsson	SWE	–	at 10:15.7
22	Jan Plantaz	NED	–	at 10:15.7
23	Claude Rouer	FRA	–	at 10:15.7
24	Odd Berg	NOR	–	at 11:26.8
25	Erling Kristiansen	NOR	–	at 11:26.8
26	Desmond Robinson	GBR	–	at 12:05.5
27	Brian Robinson	GBR	–	at 12:05.5
28	Lorang Christiansen	NOR	–	at 13:57.9
29	Constantin Stănescu	ROU	–	at 13:58.0
30	Alois Lampert	LIE	–	at 14:03.2
31	Graham Vines	GBR	–	at 16:29.8
32	Don Sheldon	USA	–	at 16:29.9
33	Virgilio Pereyra	URU	–	at 16:30.0
34	Peter Pryor	AUS	–	at 16:30.1
35	Jim Nevin	AUS	–	at 16:30.2
36	Tom O'Rourke	USA	–	at 16:30.3
37	Wedell Østergaard	DEN	–	at 16:30.7
38	Luis Ángel de los Santos	URU	–	at 16:30.9
39	Hugo Machado	URU	–	at 17:30.3
40	Yevgeny Klevtsov	URS	–	at 17:30.6
41	Marin Niculescu	ROU	–	at 17:30.7
42	Raino Koskenkorva	FIN	–	at 17:31.2
43	Ewald Hasler	LIE	–	at 17:31.4
44	Victor Georgescu	ROU	–	at 18:24.1
45	Ángel Romero	MEX	–	at 18:30.5
46	Petar Georgiev	BUL	–	at 18:30.6
47	Lưu Quan	VNM	–	at 18:30.7
48	Paul Maue	GER	–	at 18:41.1
49	Adrie Voorting	NED	–	at 18:41.2
50	Fausto Lurati	SUI	–	at 18:54.6
51	Nicolas Morn	LUX	–	at 20:21.6
52	Helge Hansen	DEN	–	at 21:05.4
DNF	Ken Caves	AUS	–	–
DNF	Peter Nelson	AUS	–	–
DNF	Rik Van Looy	BEL	–	–
DNF	Milko Rusev	BUL	–	–
DNF	Iliya Krastev	BUL	–	–
DNF	Boyan Kotsev	BUL	–	–
DNF	Hernán Masanés	CHI	–	–
DNF	Héctor Mellado	CHI	–	–
DNF	Hugo Miranda	CHI	–	–
DNF	Jimmy Swift	RSA	–	–
DNF	Bobby Fowler	RSA	–	–
DNF	Jules Maenen	NED	–	–
DNF	Netai Bysack	IND	–	–
DNF	Suprovat Chakravarty	IND	–	–
DNF	Raj Kumar Mehra	IND	–	–
DNF	Pradip Bose	IND	–	–
DNF	Les Ingman	GBR	–	–
DNF	Franz Wimmer	AUT	–	–
DNF	Walter Bortel	AUT	–	–
DNF	Kihei Tomioka	JPN	–	–
DNF	Tadashi Kato	JPN	–	–
DNF	Masazumi Tajima	JPN	–	–
DNF	Gwon Ik-Hyeon	KOR	–	–
DNF	Im Sang-Jo	KOR	–	–
DNF	Kim Ho-Sun	KOR	–	–
DNF	Ricardo García	MEX	–	–
DNF	Francisco Lozano	MEX	–	–
DNF	Julio Cepeda	MEX	–	–
DNF	Jean Schmit	LUX	–	–
DNF	Anatoly Kolesov	URS	–	–
DNF	Vladimir Kryuchkov	URS	–	–
DNF	Muhammad Naqi Mallick	PAK	–	–
DNF	Imtiaz Bhatti	PAK	–	–
DNF	Roland Bezamat	FRA	–	–
DNF	Petre Nuță	ROU	–	–
DNF	Lars Nordwall	SWE	–	–
DNF	Walter Becker	GER	–	–
DNF	Paul Nyman	FIN	–	–
DNF	Ruben Forsblom	FIN	–	–
DNF	Kobi Scherer	SUI	–	–
DNF	Jan Veselý	TCH	–	–
DNF	Stanislav Svoboda	TCH	–	–
DNF	Karel Nesl	TCH	–	–
DNF	Milan Perič	TCH	–	–
DNF	István Lang	HUN	–	–
DNF	István Schillerwein	HUN	–	–
DNF	Lajos Látó	HUN	–	–
DNF	Julio Sobrera	URU	–	–
DNF	Châu Phươc Vình	VNM	–	–
DNF	Nguyễn Đức Hiền	VNM	–	–
DNF	Lê Văn Phươc	VNM	–	–
DNF	Ronald Rhoads	USA	–	–
DQ	Tamotsu Chikanari	JPN	–	–
DQ	Nikolay Bobarenko	URS	–	–
DQ	David Rhoads	USA	–	–
DQ	Arthur Mannsbarth	AUT	–	–
DQ	Paul Backman	FIN	–	–
DQ	Héctor Droguett	CHI	–	–
DQ	George Estman	RSA	–	–