Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit

Men's cycling individual pursuit at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Hachioji Road Race Course, Tokyo
Date	16-17 October 1964
Competitors	24 from 24 nations
Medalists
Jiří Daler   Czechoslovakia   Giorgio Ursi   Italy   Preben Isaksson   Denmark

Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men
Team time trial		men
Track cycling
Individual pursuit		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men
1000 m time trial		men
Tandem		men

The men's individual pursuit was a track cycling event held as part of the Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The course was 4000 metres. It was the first time the event had been held at the Olympics and took place on 16 October and 17 October 1964 at the Hachioji Velodrome. 24 cyclists competed.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jiří Daler  Czechoslovakia	Giorgio Ursi  Italy	Preben Isaksson  Denmark

Results

Heats

In the first round of heats, the 24 cyclists were divided into 12 pairs. Placing in the heats was not used to advanced; instead the 8 fastest cyclists from across the heats advanced to the quarterfinals.

Heat 1
1.	Tiemen Groen (NED)	4:57.48	QQ
2.	Hugh Porter (GBR)	5:03.16	QQ
Heat 2
1.	Jiří Daler (TCH)	5:00.55	QQ
2.	Lothar Spiegelberg (EUA)	5:04.60	QQ
Heat 3
1.	Herman Van Loo (BEL)	5:07.22
2.	Richard Hine (AUS)	5:16.55
Heat 4
1.	Giorgio Ursi (ITA)	5:01.41	QQ
2.	Lucjan Józefowicz (POL)	5:05.01	QQ
Heat 5
1.	Stanislav Moskvin (URS)	5:05.67	QQ
2.	Robert Varga (FRA)	5:14.57
Heat 6
1.	Preben Isaksson (DEN)	5:01.88	QQ
2.	Rubén Etchebarne (URU)	5:17.11
Heat 7
1.	Hiromi Yamafuji (JPN)	5:17.57
2.	Martín Rodríguez (COL)	5:17.77
Heat 8
1.	Khem Son (CAM)	6:05.87
2.	Chow Kwong Choi (HKG)	DNF
Heat 9
1.	Amar Singh Sokhi (IND)	5:56.98
2.	Tjow Choon Boon (MAS)	Elim.
Heat 10
1.	Ronald Cassidy (TRI)	5:35.64
2.	Smaisuk Krisansuwan (THA)	6:00.76
Heat 11
1.	Skip Cutting (USA)	5:25.59
2.	Trần Văn Nen (VIE)	Elim.
Heat 12
1.	Antonio Duque (MEX)	5:19.98
2.	Muhammad Ashiq (PAK)	Elim.

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals paired off the 8 remaining cyclists into 4 heats. Winners advanced, losers were eliminated.

Quarterfinal 1
1.	Tiemen Groen (NED)	4:59.59	QS
2.	Stanislav Moskvin (URS)	5:02.27
Quarterfinal 2
1.	Jiří Daler (TCH)	5:00.70	QS
2.	Lucjan Józefowicz (POL)	5:07.08
Quarterfinal 3
1.	Giorgio Ursi (ITA)	5:02.43	QS
2.	Lothar Spiegelberg (EUA)	5:09.84
Quarterfinal 4
1.	Preben Isaksson (DEN)	5:01.13	QS
2.	Hugh Porter (GBR)	5:04.66

Semifinals

The winner of each semifinal advanced to the gold medal match, while the loser was sent to the bronze medal match.

Semifinal 1
1.	Giorgio Ursi (ITA)	4:56.64	QG
2.	Tiemen Groen (NED)	5:01.36	QB
Semifinal 2
1.	Jiří Daler (TCH)	4:59.97	QG
2.	Preben Isaksson (DEN)	5:02.23	QB

Finals

Gold medal match
	Jiří Daler (TCH)	5:04.75
	Giorgio Ursi (ITA)	5:05.96
Bronze medal match
	Preben Isaksson (DEN)	5:01.90
4.	Tiemen Groen (NED)	5:04.21

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2. 

References