# Cycling at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

The men's individual road race cycling event at the 1936 Summer Olympics took place on 10 August over 100 km. Ninety-nine cyclists from 28 nations competed. This was the first time that the cycling road race was conducted as a mass start event since 1896 and was one of six cycling events at the 1936 Olympics. The men's team road race was held in conjunction with this event, with teams having four riders and the team time taken as sum of the team's three best finishers. The individual event was won by Robert Charpentier of France, with his teammate Guy Lapébie in second. Ernst Nievergelt of Switzerland took bronze. They were the first men's mass-start road race medals for both nations, which had not competed in 1896.

## Background

This was the second appearance of the event, previously held in 1896; it would be held at every Summer Olympics after 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932 (and which would be reintroduced alongside the road race in 1996). French cyclist Robert Charpentier was the runner-up in the 1935 UCI Road World Championships. Three-speed bikes were innovative at the time, with many riders adopting them.
Germany and Great Britain made their second appearances in the event; the other 26 nations competing in 1936 each made their debut.

## Competition format and course

The race was on a course that covered 100 kilometres, starting and finishing at the North Curve of the Avus motor racing circuit. It followed "relatively flat roads," with elevation shifts limited to between 32 and 80 metres above sea level and the steepest grade at 46.1 metres per kilometre.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| Monday, 10 August 1936 | 8:00 | Final |

## Results

Some of the cyclists with unknown times may not have finished.
| Rank | Cyclist | National | Time |
| | Robert Charpentier | France | 2:33:05.0 |
| | Guy Lapébie | France | 2:33:05.2 |
| | Ernst Nievergelt | Switzerland | 2:33:05.8 |
| 4 | Fritz Scheller | Germany | 2:33:06.0 |
| 4 | Charles Holland | Great Britain | 2:33:06.0 |
| 4 | Robert Dorgebray | France | 2:33:06.0 |
| 7 | Pierino Favalli | Italy | 2:33:06.2 |
| 8 | Auguste Garrebeek | Belgium | 2:33:06.6 |
| 8 | Armand Putzeyse | Belgium | 2:33:06.6 |
| 8 | Talat Tunçalp | Turkey | 2:33:06.6 |
| 11 | Edgar Buchwalder | Switzerland | 2:33:07.0 |
| 12 | Frode Sørensen | Denmark | 2:33:07.2 |
| 12 | August Prosenik | Yugoslavia | 2:33:07.2 |
| 14 | Kurt Ott | Switzerland | 2:33:07.6 |
| 15 | Glauco Servadei | Italy | 2:33:07.8 |
| 16 | Tassy Johnson | Australia | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Virgilius Altmann | Austria | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Hans Höfner | Austria | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Eugen Schnalek | Austria | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Jean-François Van Der Motte | Belgium | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Kanyo Dzhambazov | Bulgaria | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Arne Petersen | Denmark | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Thor Porko | Finland | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Jean Goujon | France | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | János Bognár | Hungary | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | István Liszkay | Hungary | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Corrado Ardizzoni | Italy | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Jacques Majerus | Luxembourg | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Franz Neuens | Luxembourg | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Nico van Gageldonk | Netherlands | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Wacław Starzyński | Poland | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Stanisław Zieliński | Poland | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Hennie Binneman | South Africa | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Gottlieb Weber | Switzerland | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Arne Berg | Sweden | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Josef Lošek | Czechoslovakia | 2:33:08.0 |
| 16 | Franc Gartner | Yugoslavia | 2:33:08.0 |
| 39–94 | Mārtiņš Mazūrs | Latvia | 2:37:08.0 |
| 39–94 | Arvīds Immermanis | Latvia | 2:52:08.0 |
| 39–94 | Aleksejs Jurjevs | Latvia | 2:52:08.0 |
| 39–94 | Jānis Vītols | Latvia | 2:52:08.0 |
| 39–94 | Chris Wheeler | Australia | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Karl Kühn | Austria | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Jef Lowagie | Belgium | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Dertônio Ferrer | Brazil | Unknown |
| 39–94 | José Magnani | Brazil | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Hermógenes Netto | Brazil | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Nikola Nenov | Bulgaria | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Aleksandar Nikolov | Bulgaria | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Gennadi Simov | Bulgaria | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Lionel Coleman | Canada | Unknown |
| 39–94 | George Crompton | Canada | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Rusty Peden | Canada | Unknown |
| 39–94 | George Turner | Canada | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Jesús Chousal | Chile | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Jorge Guerra | Chile | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Rafael Montero | Chile | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Manuel Riquelme | Chile | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Knud Jacobsen | Denmark | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Tage Møller | Denmark | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Tauno Lindgren | Finland | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Jackie Bone | Great Britain | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Willi Meurer | Germany | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Fritz Ruland | Germany | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Emil Schöpflin | Germany | Unknown |
| 39–94 | István Adorján | Hungary | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Károly Nemes-Nótás | Hungary | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Elio Bavutti | Italy | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Adolf Schreiber | Liechtenstein | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Paul Frantz | Luxembourg | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Rudy Houtsch | Luxembourg | Unknown |
| 39–94 | René van Hove | Netherlands | Unknown |
| 39–94 | George Giles | New Zealand | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Manuel Bacigalupo | Peru | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Gregorio Caloggero | Peru | Unknown |
| 39–94 | José Mazzini | Peru | Unknown |
| 39–94 | César Peñaranda | Peru | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Mieczysław Kapiak | Poland | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Wiktor Olecki | Poland | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Ted Clayton | South Africa | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Berndt Carlsson | Sweden | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Ingvar Ericsson | Sweden | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Vilém Jakl | Czechoslovakia | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Hans Leutelt | Czechoslovakia | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Miloslav Loos | Czechoslovakia | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Kirkor Canbazyan | Turkey | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Kazım Bingen | Turkey | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Orhan Suda | Turkey | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Albert Byrd | United States | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Charles Morton | United States | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Paul Nixon | United States | Unknown |
| 39–94 | John Sinibaldi | United States | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Josip Pokupec | Yugoslavia | Unknown |
| 39–94 | Ivan Valant | Yugoslavia | Unknown |
| — | Bill Messer | Great Britain | DNF |
| — | Alick Bevan | Great Britain | DNF |
| — | Gerrit Schulte | Netherlands | DNF |
| — | Philippus Vethaak | Netherlands | DNF |
| — | Sven Johansson | Sweden | DNF |