Venue Käpylä, Finland Competitors 154 from 31 nations | Date 2 August 1952 Winning time 5:06:03.4 | |
The Men's Individual Road Race at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held on 2 August, the 2nd last day of the Olympics on an 11,2 km course running counter-clockwise from Käpylä through Pakila and Maunula and back to Käpylä. The course was circled seventeen times, so the total length of the competition was 190,4 km. About half of the road was hard-surfaced, the other half sand-surfaced.
There were 154 entries from 31 nations and 112 participants from 30 nations.
References
Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA