The men's tandem cycling event at the 1948 Summer Olympics took place between 7 and 11 August and was one of six events at the 1948 Olympics.
Results First round The first round took place on 7 August. The winners from each heat advanced to the quarterfinals. The losing pairs competed in the repechage round.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Jean RothMax Aeberli 4:24.6 2 Klaas BuchlyTinus van Gelder
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Hans AndresenEvan Klamer 4:53.6 2 Louis Van SchillRoger De Pauw
Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Ferdinando TerruzziRenato Perona 4:58.4 2 Oscar GiacchéMiguel Passi
Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 René FayeGaston Dron 4:34.8 2 Marvin ThomsonAl Stiller
Heat 5 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Reg HarrisAlan Bannister 5:37.9 2 Kurt NemetzErich Welt
Repechage The repechage round took place on 7 August. The winners from each plus the fastest losing team advanced to the quarterfinals.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Louis Van SchillRoger De Pauw 3:05.6 2 Klaas BuchlyTinus van Gelder 3 Oscar GiacchéMiguel Passi
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Marvin ThomsonAl Stiller 3:54.5 2 Kurt NemetzErich Welt
Quarterfinals The quarterfinal round took place on 9 August. The winners from each heat advanced to the semifinals.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Reg HarrisAlan Bannister 7:57.8 2 Klaas BuchlyTinus van Gelder
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 René FayeGaston Dron 5:26.3 2 Hans AndresenEvan Klamer
Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Jean RothMax Aeberli 3:58.5 2 Marvin ThomsonAl Stiller
Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Ferdinando TerruzziRenato Perona 4:35.6 2 Louis Van SchillRoger De Pauw
Semifinals The semifinal round took place on 9 August. The winners from each heat competed for the gold medal. The remaining teams competed for the bronze.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Reg HarrisAlan Bannister 6:06.4 2 René FayeGaston Dron
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Ferdinando TerruzziRenato Perona 4:36.9 2 Jean RothMax Aeberli
Final The final races took place on 11 August and consisted of two best-of-three series. Italy won the gold medal series against the British team 2–1, while France took home the bronze against Switzerland by winning their series 2–0.
Gold medal race Rank Name Nationality Time (Race 1) Time (Race 2) Time (Race 3) Ferdinando TerruzziRenato Perona 4:38.8 3:55.1 Reg HarrisAlan Bannister 3:56.6
Bronze medal race Rank Name Nationality Time (Race 1) Time (Race 2) René FayeGaston Dron 3:59.9 2:56.2 4 Jean RothMax Aeberli
Final standings
Rank Name Nationality Ferdinando TerruzziRenato Perona Reg HarrisAlan Bannister René FayeGaston Dron 4 Jean RothMax Aeberli 5 Louis Van SchillRoger De Pauw Hans AndresenEvan Klamer Klaas BuchlyTinus van Gelder Marvin ThomsonAl Stiller 9 Kurt NemetzErich Welt 10 Oscar GiacchéMiguel Passi
References
External links Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.