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Olympic Men's Road Race

The road race wasn't held consistently until after the Second World War. Professional athletes were allowed to compete in the Olympics starting with the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Year/City Gold Silver  Bronze
1896 Athens Aristidis Konstantinidis
Greece
August Goedrich
Germany 
Edward Battel
Great Britain
1924 Paris Armand Blanchonnet
France
Henri Hoenvenaers
Belgium
Rene Hamel
France
1936 Berlin Robert Charpentier
France
Guy Lepebie
France
Ernst Nievergelt

Switzerland

1948 London Jose Beyaert
France
Petrus Voorting
Holland
Lode A. Wouters
Belgium
1952 Helsinki Andre A. Noyelle
Belgium
Robert Grondelaers
Belgium 
Edy Ziegler
Germany
1956 Melbourne Ercole Baldini
Italy
Arnaud Geyre
France
Alan W. Jackson
Great Britain
1960 Rome Victor Kapitonov
USSR
Livio Trape
Italy
w. Van Den Bergen
Belgium
1964 Tokyo  Mario Zanin
Italy
Kjell Rodian
Denmark
Walter Godefroot
Belgium
1968 Mexico City  Piefranco Vianelli
Italy
Lief Mortensen
Denmark
Gosta Pettersson
Sweden
1972 Munich Hennie Kuiper
Holland
Kevin Sefton
Australia
Bruce Biddle
New Zealand
1976 Montreal  Bernt Johannson
Sweden
G. Martinelli
Italy 
M. Nowicki
Poland
1980 Moscow  Sergei Soukouroutchenkov
USSR
C. Lang
Poland
Y. Barinov
USSR
1984 Los Angeles Alexei Grewal
USA
Steve Bauer
Canada
Dag-Otto Lauritzen
Norway
1988 Seoul Olaf Ludwig
East Germany
Bernd Groene
West Germany
Christian Henn
West Germany
1992 Barcelona Fabio Casartelli
Italy
Erik Dekker
Holland
D. Ozols
Lithuania
1996 Atlanta Pascal Richard
Switzerland
Rolf Sorensen
Denmark
Max Sciandri
Great Britain
2000 Sydney Jan Ullrich
Germany
Alexandre Vinokourov
Kazakstan
Andreas Kloden
Germany
2004 Athens  Paolo Bettini
Italy
5hr 41min 44sec
Sergio Paulinho
Portugal
@ 1sec
Axel Merckx
Belgium
@ 8sec
       

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