# Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics

The cycling competitions at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul consisted of two different categories: road cycling and track cycling. Nine events were contested, including the first women's sprint event at the Olympics.

## Road cycling
### Men's

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Road race details | Olaf Ludwig East Germany | Bernd Gröne West Germany | Christian Henn West Germany |
| Team time trial details | East Germany (GDR) Jan Schur Uwe Ampler Mario Kummer Maik Landsmann | Poland (POL) Andrzej Sypytkowski Joachim Halupczok Zenon Jaskuła Marek Leśniewski | Sweden (SWE) Michel Lafis Anders Jarl Björn Johansson Jan Karlsson |

### Women's

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Road race details | Monique Knol Netherlands | Jutta Niehaus West Germany | Laima Zilporite Soviet Union |

## Track cycling
### Men's

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Points race details | Dan Frost Denmark | Leo Peelen Netherlands | Marat Ganeyev Soviet Union |
| Individual pursuit details | Gintautas Umaras Soviet Union | Dean Woods Australia | Bernd Dittert East Germany |
| Team pursuit details | Soviet Union (URS) Viatcheslav Ekimov Artūras Kasputis Dmitry Nelyubin Gintautas Umaras | East Germany (GDR) Carsten Wolf Steffen Blochwitz Roland Hennig Dirk Meier | Australia (AUS) Scott McGrory Dean Woods Brett Dutton Wayne McCarney Stephen McGlede |
| Sprint details | Lutz Heßlich East Germany | Nikolay Kovsh Soviet Union | Gary Neiwand Australia |
| 1 km time trial details | Aleksandr Kirichenko Soviet Union | Martin Vinnicombe Australia | Robert Lechner West Germany |

### Women's

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Sprint details | Erika Salumäe Soviet Union | Christa Luding-Rothenburger East Germany | Connie Young United States |

## Participating nations

422 cyclists from 62 nations competed.
| Algeria (2)  Andorra (2)  Antigua and Barbuda (2)  Argentina (7)  Australia (17)  Austria (7)  Barbados (2)  Belgium (6)  Belize (5)  Bolivia (1)  Brazil (8)  Canada (11)  Cayman Islands (6)  China (9)  Chinese Taipei (2)  Colombia (7) | Zaire (4)  Czechoslovakia (13)  Denmark (9)  East Germany (17)  Ecuador (1)  Finland (4)  France (16)  Great Britain (17)  Guatemala (5)  Guyana (2)  Hong Kong (5)  Hungary (1)  Iran (7)  Ireland (5)  Italy (18) | Jamaica (3)  Japan (12)  Lebanon (2)  Libya (2)  Liechtenstein (3)  Malawi (4)  Malaysia (2)  Mexico (5)  Monaco (1)  Netherlands (13)  New Zealand (13)  Norway (5)  Philippines (3)  Poland (11)  Sierra Leone (1)  South Korea (15) | Soviet Union (18)  Spain (13)  Suriname (1)  Sweden (8)  Switzerland (9)  Trinidad and Tobago (2)  United Arab Emirates (6)  United States (19)  Virgin Islands (1)  Uruguay (3)  Venezuela (4)  Vietnam (1)  West Germany (15)  Yugoslavia (6)  Zimbabwe (2) |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | East Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Australia | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | West Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 |