Italians and Australians dominated the last day of Olympic track cycling in the Velodrome. Russell Mockridge of Australia won gold in the 1,000-metre time trial and joined forces with countryman Lionel Cox to take another victory in the 2,000-metre tandem race. Track cycling did not draw crowds in Finland: only about two thousand people attended the competitions in the Velodrome on any given day.

Russell Mockridge of Australia defeated Italy's Marino Morettini for the gold in 1,000 metres time trial.

Enzo Sacchi of Italy had shown best form in qualifying heats of the sprint competition. He was joined in the final by Lionel Cox of Australia and Werner Potzernheim of Germany. Sacchi edged out Cox to win gold, and the German settled for bronze.

Pesäpallo, Finnish baseball, was a demonstration sport at the Helsinki Games. A game was played in the Olympic Stadium in front of 19,000 people between teams of the national pesäpallo association and the Worker's Sport Federation, won by the former 8-4. The inventor of the game Tahko Pihkala threw the opening ball of the game. Swedish, French and English commentary was provided for foreign visitors on the loudspeaker.