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Road Race, Individual, Men

Road Race, Individual, Men

Date	22 October 1964 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Hachioji Road Race Course, Hachioji, Tokyo
Participants	132 from 35 countries
Format	194.832 km. mass start race. Eight laps of 24.354 km. course.

The course of the 1964 road race began in front of the Takao Train Station, and comprised eight laps of a 24.354 km. course, making the final distance 194.832 km. The course featured a fairly steep, but short, climb of 65 metres at the 11th km., followed by a short descent, and then a mild climb over the next few kilometers. However, the course was not really difficult enough to break apart the peleton. In addition, it was held in a heavy rain, which slowed the pace somewhat.

The Amateur Road Race World Championships had been won in 1961 by Jean Jourden (FRA), in 1962-63 by Italy’s Renato Bongioni and Flaviano Vicentini, respectively. But none of these three entered the Olympic Road Race, both Italians having turned pro. Earlier in 1964, the 1964 World Championship was won by the young Belgian rider, Eddy Merckx.

The relatively easy course kept the pack mostly together throughout the race. Of the 132 starters, 107 finished, and the first 99 riders crossed the finishing line together. A few break-outs occurred, but the last of those ended 15 km from the finish, Merckx tried to get away with 1.5 km to go, but only managed a gap of some 20 m before getting caught by the pack. The two leaders of the sprint-out were Italy’s Mario Zanin and Denmark’s Kjell Rodian, with Zanin narrowly edging Rodian to win the gold medal.

Eddy Merckx was right there at the finish but the great Belgian rider was not a strong enough sprinter to win the race, and he finished 12th. His time would come. Merckx turned professional in April 1965 and became the greatest rider in the professional peleton, and is usually considered the greatest cyclist of all-time. He was later nicknamed “The Cannibal” for his aggressive riding style and never-ending hunger for victories, which helped him win 5 Tours de France, 5 Giros d’Italia, 3 World Professional Road titles, and multiple wins in the one-day classics.

The results of the 1964 road race are somewhat in dispute. The 1964 Official Report and 1964 Official Results both list “all” finishers, but they only agree in the first 35 places. In fact, the Report only lists 86 finishers while the Results lists 107 finishers. We have consulted multiple sources to try to make sense of this problem, including contacting national federations and some of the riders involved in the race. We believe that the following results are an accurate representation of the finishers, but recognize that this problem may not be fully resolved.

Pos	Bib	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	–	Mario Zanin	👁 Image ITA	4-39:51.63	–	Gold
2	–	Kjell Rodian	👁 Image DEN	–	at 0:00.02	Silver
3	–	Walter Godefroot	👁 Image BEL	–	at 0:00.11	Bronze
4	–	Ray Bilney	👁 Image AUS	–	at 0:00.11
5	–	José Manuel López	👁 Image ESP	–	at 0:00.11
6	–	Wilfried Peffgen	👁 Image GER	–	at 0:00.11
7	–	Gösta Pettersson	👁 Image SWE	–	at 0:00.11
8	–	Delmo Delmastro	👁 Image ARG	–	at 0:00.11
9	–	Roberto Breppe	👁 Image ARG	–	at 0:00.11
10	–	Laurie Byers	👁 Image NZL	–	at 0:00.11
11	–	Erik Pettersson	👁 Image SWE	–	at 0:00.11
12	–	Eddy Merckx	👁 Image BEL	–	at 0:00.11
13	–	Jan Kudra	👁 Image POL	–	at 0:00.11
14	–	Michael Hollingsworth	👁 Image AUS	–	at 0:00.11
15	–	Ole Højlund Pedersen	👁 Image DEN	–	at 0:00.11
16	–	Hans Lüthi	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:00.11
17	–	Dick Johnstone	👁 Image NZL	–	at 0:00.11
18	–	Roger Swerts	👁 Image BEL	–	at 0:00.11
19	–	Johny Schleck	👁 Image LUX	–	at 0:00.11
20	–	Bart Zoet	👁 Image NED	–	at 0:00.11
21	–	Flemming Gleerup Hansen	👁 Image DEN	–	at 0:00.11
22	–	Daniel Gráč	👁 Image TCH	–	at 0:00.11
23	–	José Manuel Lasa	👁 Image ESP	–	at 0:00.11
24	–	János Juszkó	👁 Image HUN	–	at 0:00.11
25	–	Colin Lewis	👁 Image GBR	–	at 0:00.11
26	–	Terry West	👁 Image GBR	–	at 0:00.11
27	–	Gerben Karstens	👁 Image NED	–	at 0:00.11
28	–	Severino Andreoli	👁 Image ITA	–	at 0:00.11
29	–	Burkhard Ebert	👁 Image GER	–	at 0:00.12
30	–	Erwin Jaisli	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:00.12
31	–	Derek Harrison	👁 Image GBR	–	at 0:00.12
32	–	Mariano Díaz	👁 Image ESP	–	at 0:00.12
33	–	Felice Gimondi	👁 Image ITA	–	at 0:00.13
34	–	Jorge Mariné	👁 Image ESP	–	at 0:00.13
35	–	András Mészáros	👁 Image HUN	–	at 0:00.13
36	–	Chow Kwong Man	👁 Image HKG	–	at 0:00.13
37	–	Masashi Omiya	👁 Image JPN	–	at 0:00.13
38	–	Jos Boons	👁 Image BEL	–	at 0:00.13
39	–	Louis Pfenninger	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:00.13
40	–	Harry Steevens	👁 Image NED	–	at 0:00.13
41	–	Gaynan Saydkhuzhin	👁 Image URS	–	at 0:00.14
42	–	Jan Pieterse	👁 Image NED	–	at 0:00.14
43	–	Yanjingiin Baatar	👁 Image MGL	–	at 0:00.14
44	–	Jan Magiera	👁 Image POL	–	at 0:00.14
45	–	Ricardo Vázquez	👁 Image URU	–	at 0:00.15
46	–	Martín Rodríguez	👁 Image COL	–	at 0:00.15
47	–	Antal Megyerdi	👁 Image HUN	–	at 0:00.15
48	–	Francisco Pérez	👁 Image URU	–	at 0:00.15
49	–	Rubén Placánica	👁 Image ARG	–	at 0:00.16
50	–	Sven Hamrin	👁 Image SWE	–	at 0:00.16
51	–	Mike Cowley	👁 Image GBR	–	at 0:00.16
52	–	Sture Pettersson	👁 Image SWE	–	at 0:00.16
53	–	Francis Bazire	👁 Image FRA	–	at 0:00.17
54	–	Immo Rittmeyer	👁 Image GER	–	at 0:00.17
55	–	Pablo Hernández	👁 Image COL	–	at 0:00.17
56	–	Anatoly Olizarenko	👁 Image URS	–	at 0:00.17
57	–	Gabriel Moiceanu	👁 Image ROU	–	at 0:00.17
58	–	Constantin Ciocan	👁 Image ROU	–	at 0:00.18
59	–	Ion Cosma	👁 Image ROU	–	at 0:00.18
60	–	Yury Melikhov	👁 Image URS	–	at 0:00.18
61	–	Des Thomson	👁 Image NZL	–	at 0:00.18
62	–	Aleksey Petrov	👁 Image URS	–	at 0:00.18
63	–	Hans Heinemann	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:00.19
64	–	Vid Cencic	👁 Image URU	–	at 0:00.19
65	–	David Humphreys	👁 Image AUS	–	at 0:00.19
66	–	Max Grace	👁 Image NZL	–	at 0:00.20
67	–	Jiří Daler	👁 Image TCH	–	at 0:00.20
68	–	Malcolm McCredie	👁 Image AUS	–	at 0:00.20
69	–	Rubén Darío Gómez	👁 Image COL	–	at 0:00.20
70	–	František Řezáč	👁 Image TCH	–	at 0:00.20
71	–	Jan Smolík	👁 Image TCH	–	at 0:00.20
72	–	Stephen Lim	👁 Image MAS	–	at 0:00.20
73	–	Arturo Romeo	👁 Image PHI	–	at 0:00.20
74	–	Ole Ritter	👁 Image DEN	–	at 0:00.20
75	–	John Allis	👁 Image USA	–	at 0:00.20
76	–	Phạm Văn Sau	👁 Image VNM	–	at 0:00.20
77	–	Andrzej Bławdzin	👁 Image POL	–	at 0:00.20
78	–	Günter Hoffmann	👁 Image GER	–	at 0:00.20
79	–	Carmelo Saglimbeni	👁 Image ETH	–	at 0:00.20
80	–	Lucien Aimar	👁 Image FRA	–	at 0:00.20
81	–	Mashallah Amin Sorour	👁 Image IRI	–	at 0:00.20
82	–	Rajmund Zieliński	👁 Image POL	–	at 0:00.20
83	–	László Mahó	👁 Image HUN	–	at 0:00.20
84	–	Teófilo Toda	👁 Image PER	–	at 0:00.20
85	–	Luvsangiin Erkhemjamts	👁 Image MGL	–	at 0:00.20
86	–	Her Jong-Chau	👁 Image TPE	–	at 0:00.20
87	–	Shue Ming-Shu	👁 Image TPE	–	at 0:00.20
88	–	Gheorghe Bădără	👁 Image ROU	–	at 0:00.20
89	–	Taworn Jirapan	👁 Image THA	–	at 0:00.20
90	–	Trần Văn Nen	👁 Image VNM	–	at 0:00.20
91	–	Pakdee Chinjinda	👁 Image THA	–	at 0:00.20
92	–	Chow Kwong Choi	👁 Image HKG	–	at 0:00.20
93	–	Melesio Soto	👁 Image MEX	–	at 0:00.20
94	–	Bernard Guyot	👁 Image FRA	–	at 0:00.20
95	–	Christian Raymond	👁 Image FRA	–	at 0:00.20
96	–	Edy Schütz	👁 Image LUX	–	at 0:00.20
97	–	Daniel Olivares	👁 Image PHI	–	at 0:00.20
98	–	Cornelio Padilla	👁 Image PHI	–	at 0:00.20
99	–	Sayed Esmail Hosseini	👁 Image IRI	–	at 0:00.20
100	–	Michael Hiltner	👁 Image USA	–	at 20:02.37
101	–	Akbar Poudeh	👁 Image IRI	–	at 20:07.37
102	–	Wilde Baridón	👁 Image URU	–	at 21:58.37
103	–	Luvsangiin Buudai	👁 Image MGL	–	at 22:05.37
104	–	Francisco Coronel	👁 Image MEX	–	at 22:23.37
105	–	Hiroshi Yamao	👁 Image JPN	–	at 30:48.37
106	–	Toshiro Akamatsu	👁 Image JPN	–	at 47:18.37
107	–	Lee Seon-Bae	👁 Image KOR	–	at 47:24.37
–	An Byeong-Hun	👁 Image KOR	–	–
–	Chainarong Sophonpong	👁 Image THA	–	–
–	Davoud Akhlagi	👁 Image IRI	–	–
–	Deng Chueng-Hwai	👁 Image TPE	–	–
–	Ferruccio Manza	👁 Image ITA	–	–
–	Fisihasion Ghebreyesus	👁 Image ETH	–	–
–	Heriberto Díaz	👁 Image MEX	–	–
–	Hwang Chang-Sik	👁 Image KOR	–	–
–	Raymond Castilloux	👁 Image USA	–	–
–	Mario Escobar	👁 Image COL	–	–
–	Michael Andrew	👁 Image MAS	–	–
–	Norberto Arceo	👁 Image PHI	–	–
–	Choijiljavyn Samand	👁 Image MGL	–	–
–	Suleman Ambaye	👁 Image ETH	–	–
–	Hamid Supaat	👁 Image MAS	–	–
–	Tom Montemage	👁 Image USA	–	–
–	Vitool Charoenrut	👁 Image THA	–	–
–	Wi Gyeong-Yong	👁 Image KOR	–	–
–	Yemane Negassi	👁 Image ETH	–	–
–	Safarrudin Zain	👁 Image MAS	–	–
–	Nguyễn Văn Khoi	👁 Image VNM	–	–
–	Masanori Tsuji	👁 Image JPN	–	–
–	Moisés López	👁 Image MEX	–	–
–	Mok Sau Hei	👁 Image HKG	–	–
–	Nguyễn Văn Ngan	👁 Image VNM	–	–

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/results/154007

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