Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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Cycling
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The Laoshan Velodrome
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Laoshan BMX Field
Laoshan Mountain Bike Course Urban Road Cycling Course Laoshan Velodrome |
Date | 9 August – 23 August 2008 |
Competitors | 508 from 66 nations |
Cycling competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 9 to August 23 at the Laoshan Velodrome (track events), Laoshan Mountain Bike Course , Laoshan BMX Field and the Beijing Cycling Road Course .
The event was dominated by the Great Britain team , who claimed 14 medals in total, including eight golds, seven of them from the ten events in the velodrome. This marked the beginning of a period of complete domination for Great Britain that would last to the 2020 Summer Olympics ; The British team would claim 21 of the 30 gold medals awarded in the velodrome over the next three Games, 70% of all gold medals on offer. [1] [2]
Events
Eighteen sets of medals were awarded in four disciplines: track cycling , road cycling , mountain bike , and, new for 2008, BMX . The following events were contested:
Track cycling
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Road cycling
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Road race | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
Track cycling
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Individual pursuit | men | women |
Team pursuit | men | |
Sprint | men | women |
Team sprint | men | |
Points race | men | women |
Keirin | men | |
Madison | men | |
Mountain biking
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Cross-country | men | women |
BMX
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BMX | men | women |
- Team sprint men
- Sprint men
- Keirin men
- 4000 m Team pursuit men
- 4000 m Individual pursuit men
- Madison 50 km men
- Points race 40 km men
- Sprint women
- 3000 m Individual pursuit women
- Points race 25 km women
Road cycling
- Road bicycle race men—239 km
- Road time trial men—46.8 km
- Road bicycle race women—120 km
- Road time trial women—31.2 km
Mountain bike
- Mountain bike men
- Mountain bike women
BMX
- BMX race men
- BMX race women
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Great Britain (GBR) | 8 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
3 | Spain (ESP) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
4 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
5 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
6 | Germany (GER) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
7 | Argentina (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11 | New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
12 | Australia (AUS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
16 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
17 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (20 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |
Road cycling
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's road race
details |
Samuel Sánchez
Spain |
Fabian Cancellara
Switzerland |
Alexandr Kolobnev
Russia |
Men's time trial
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Fabian Cancellara
Switzerland |
Gustav Larsson
Sweden |
Levi Leipheimer
United States |
Women's road race
details |
Nicole Cooke
Great Britain |
Emma Johansson
Sweden |
Tatiana Guderzo
Italy |
Women's time trial
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Kristin Armstrong
United States |
Emma Pooley
Great Britain |
Karin Thürig
Switzerland |
Track cycling
Men
Women
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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points race
details |
Marianne Vos
Netherlands |
Yoanka González
Cuba |
Leire Olaberría
Spain |
pursuit
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Rebecca Romero
Great Britain |
Wendy Houvenaghel
Great Britain |
Lesya Kalytovska
Ukraine |
sprint
details |
Victoria Pendleton
Great Britain |
Anna Meares
Australia |
Guo Shuang
China |
* Participate in the preliminary round only.
Mountain biking
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's
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Julien Absalon
France |
Jean-Christophe Péraud
France |
Nino Schurter
Switzerland |
Women's
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Sabine Spitz
Germany |
Maja Włoszczowska
Poland |
Irina Kalentieva
Russia |
BMX
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's
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Māris Štrombergs
Latvia |
Mike Day
United States |
Donny Robinson
United States |
Women's
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Anne-Caroline Chausson
France |
Laëtitia Le Corguillé
France |
Jill Kintner
United States |
Broken records
Event | Time | Name | Nation | Date | Record |
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Men's Sprint | 9.815 | Chris Hoy | Great Britain (GBR) | 2008-08-17 | OR |
Men's Individual pursuit | 4:15.031 | Bradley Wiggins | Great Britain (GBR) | 2008-08-15 | OR |
Men's Team pursuit | 3:53.314 |
Bradley Wiggins
Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Ed Clancy |
Great Britain (GBR) | 2008-08-18 | OR |
Women's Sprint | 10.963 | Victoria Pendleton | Great Britain (GBR) | 2008-08-17 | OR |
Qualification
See also
References
- ↑ "How GB cycling went from tragic to magic" . BBC . 2008-08-14 . Retrieved 2009-05-07 .
- ↑ "How Team GB's weekend of glory happened" . Metro . 2009-08-17 . Retrieved 2009-05-07 .
External links
- Beijing 2008
- Union Cycliste Internationale
- Cycling BMX – Official Results Book
- Cycling Mountain Bike – Official Results Book
- Cycling Road – Official Results Book
- Cycling Track – Official Results Book
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