The men's team time trial cycling event at the 1984 Summer Olympics took place on 5 August and was one of eight cycling events at the 1984 Olympics. The qualification and quarter finals were on 2 August and the semi-finals and finals on 3 August.
The Italian team recorded a dominant victory by winning by 4:10 over Switzerland. The Italian team was one of the first teams to use modern carbon-fiber disc wheels, which are now commonly used in time trials. Their time of 1h 58:28 was the fastest time ever recorded over 100 km in a team time trial, and would have been faster without a flat tire that cost them 20 seconds to change the wheel. The venue was a 15½-mile stretch of the Artesia Freeway.
Results Rank Cyclists Nation Time Marcello Bartalini Marco Giovannetti Eros Poli Claudio Vandelli 1:58:28 Alfred Achermann Richard Trinkler Laurent Vial Benno Wiss 2:02:38 Ron Kiefel Clarence Knickman Davis Phinney Andrew Weaver 2:02:57 4 Jos Alberts Erik Breukink Maarten Ducrot Gert Jakobs 2:04:46 5 Bengt Asplund Per Christiansson Magnus Knutsson Håkan Larsson 2:05:07 6 Jean-François Bernard Philippe Bouvatier Thierry Marie Denis Pelizzari 2:05:31 7 John Carlsen Kim Eriksen Lars Jensen Søren Lilholt 2:05:31 8 Steven Poulter Keith Reynolds Peter Sanders Darryl Webster 2:05:51 9 Bruno Bulić Primož Čerin Janez Lampič Bojan Ropret 2:05:55 10 Dag Hopen Hans Petter Ødegård Arnstein Raunehaug Morten Sæther 2:07:05 11 Karl Krenauer Johann Lienhart Peter Muckenhuber Helmut Wechselberger 2:08:08 12 Hartmut Bölts Thomas Freienstein Bernd Gröne Michael Maue 2:08:15 13 Harry Hannus Kari Myyryläinen Patrick Wackström Sixten Wackström 2:08:17 14 Pierre Harvey Alain Masson Robert Pulfer Martin Willock 2:09:44 15 Jeff Leslie Michael Lynch Gary Trowell John Watters 2:10:20 16 Philip Cassidy Martin Earley Paul Kimmage Gary Thomson 2:10:52 17 Raúl Alcalá Félipe Enríquez Guillermo Gutiérrez Cuauthémoc Muñoz 2:13:16 18 Gilson Alvaristo Jair Braga Renan Ferraro Marcos Mazzaron 2:15:37 19 Choy Yiu Chung Hung Chung Yam Law Siu On Leung Hung Tak 2:17:24 20 Jo Geon-haeng Jang Yun-ho Kim Cheol-seok Lee Jin-ok 2:17:25 21 Han Shuxiang Liu Fu Wang Wanqiang Zeng Bo 2:17:34 22 David Dibben Alfred Ebanks Craig Merren Aldyn Wint 2:22:49 23 Alain Ayissi Lucas Feutsa Joseph Kono Dieudonné Ntep 2:25:26 24 Hassan Al-Absi Ahmed Al-Saleh Mohammed Al-Shanqiti Rajab Moqbil 2:28:28 25 Joslyn Chavarria Warren Coye Kurt Cutkelvin Merlyn Dawson 2:36:55 26 Dyton Chimwaza Daniel Kaswanga George Nayeja Amadu Yusufu 2:37:32
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