Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial

Men's cycling track time trial at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Competitors	14 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:14.2
Medalists
Willy Hansen   Denmark   G. Bosch van Drakestein   Netherlands   Dunc Gray   Australia

Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Individual road race		men
Team road race		men
Track cycling
Time trial		men
Team pursuit		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men

The men's track time trial, a part of the cycling events at the 1928 Summer Olympics, took place at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. The race was won by the Danish rider Willy Hansen in 1 minutes, 14.2 seconds. Each nation was limited to one competitor. The distance was 1 kilometre.^[1]

Final classification

Source: Official results^[2][3]

Rank	Rider	Time
	Willy Hansen (DEN)	1:14.2
	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein (NED)	1:15.1
	Dunc Gray (AUS)	1:15.3
4	Octave Dayen (FRA)	1:16.0
5	Kurt Einsiedel (GER)	1:17.1
6	Edward Kerridge (GBR)	1:18.0
	Józef Lange (POL)	1:18.0
8	Francisco Rodríguez (ARG)	1:18.4
9	Jean Aerts (BEL)	1:18.6
	Angelo Cattaneo (ITA)	1:18.6
11	Lew Elder (CAN)	1:19.0
	Bertie Donnelly (IRL)	1:19.0
13	Erich Fäs (SUI)	1:19.2
14	Eduardo Maillard (CHI)	1:20.1
15	Franz Dusika (AUT)	1:22.0
16	Galip Cav (TUR)	1:22.3

Notes

De Wael lists 16 competitors, with Francisco Rodríguez of Argentina placing 8th and Angelo Cattaneo of Italy tying with Aerts for 9th (with other finishers moving down correspondingly).^[3] Their names were not on the 1928 Official Report, but were discovered via research on Dutch newspapers from the time.^[1]

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