Bernt Johansson
Swedish cyclist
Bernt Johansson winning the men's individual road race during the Olympic Summer Games in Montréal, Québec Province, Canada in July 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Bernt Harry Johansson | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1953-04-18) 18 April 1953 (age 71) Gothenburg, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1977–1978 | Fiorella–Mocassini | ||||||||||||||||||||
1979–1981 | Magniflex–Famcucine | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Bernt Harry Johansson (born 18 April 1953) is a Swedish former road bicycle racer, who was a professional rider from 1977 to 1981. His sporting career began with Mariestadcyklisten.[1] A competitor at the 1972 Summer Olympics, he represented his native country once again at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he won the men's individual road race.[2] For that performance Johansson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal the same year, together with track and field athlete Anders Gärderud, who claimed gold in the men's 3000 m steeplechase in Montreal.
Career achievements
Major results
- 1972
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 1973
- 1st Stage 12 Tour d'Algérie
- 2nd Overall Milk Race
- 1974
- 1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships (with Tord Filipsson, Lennart Fagerlund & Sven-Åke Nilsson)
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1975
- 1st Overall Milk Race
- 1st Stage 8
- 1976
- 1st Road race, Summer Olympics
- 1st Stages 7 & 12 Tour du Maroc
- 1st Stage 7 Milk Race
- 1977
- 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a la Comunidad Valenciana
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Carmelo Barone)
- 1st GP Forli
- 2nd Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd Gran Piemonte
- 3rd Trofeo Laigueglia
- 3rd Giro del Veneto
- 3rd GP Industria & Commercio di Prato
- 1978
- 1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 1st GP Forli
- 1st Stage 1c (ITT) Cronostaffetta
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd Giro del Lazio
- 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Gianbattista Baronchelli)
- 3rd GP Lugano
- 3rd Giro del Veneto
- 4th Giro di Toscana
- 4th Giro di Romagna
- 5th Coppa Placci
- 9th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1979
- 1st Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato
- 2nd Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria
- 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 11 & 14
- 3rd La Flèche Wallonne
- 3rd Giro dell'Appennino
- 3rd Coppa Placci
- 4th Overall Giro di Puglia
- 7th Giro di Romagna
- 8th Giro del Lazio
- 1980
- 1st Giro del Lazio
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 5b
- 4th Gran Piemonte
- 4th Giro dell'Emilia
- 6th Milano–Torino
- 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 7th G.P. Camaiore
- 1981
- 2nd Giro della Provincia di reggio Calabria
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
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Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — |
Giro d'Italia | 20 | 9 | 3 | DNF | DNF |
Tour de France | — | — | DNF | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
External links
- Bernt Johansson at Cycling Archives
- Bernt Johansson at ProCyclingStats
- Bernt Johansson at CycleBase
- Bernt Johansson at Olympedia
- Bernt Johansson at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
Preceded by | Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal with Anders Gärderud 1976 | Succeeded by |
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Olympic Cycling Champions in Men's Road Race
- 1896: Aristidis Konstantinidis (GRE)
- 1936: Robert Charpentier (FRA)
- 1948: José Beyaert (FRA)
- 1952: André Noyelle (BEL)
- 1956: Ercole Baldini (ITA)
- 1960: Viktor Kapitonov (URS)
- 1964: Mario Zanin (ITA)
- 1968: Pierfranco Vianelli (ITA)
- 1972: Hennie Kuiper (NED)
- 1976: Bernt Johansson (SWE)
- 1980: Sergei Sukhoruchenkov (URS)
- 1984: Alexi Grewal (USA)
- 1988: Olaf Ludwig (GDR)
- 1992: Fabio Casartelli (ITA)
- 1996: Pascal Richard (SUI)
- 2000: Jan Ullrich (GER)
- 2004: Paolo Bettini (ITA)
- 2008: Samuel Sánchez (ESP)
- 2012: Alexander Vinokourov (KAZ)
- 2016: Greg Van Avermaet (BEL)
- 2020: Richard Carapaz (ECU)