Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Cycling at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |
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The Laoshan Velodrome | |
Venues | Laoshan BMX Field Laoshan Mountain Bike Course Urban Road Cycling Course Laoshan Velodrome |
Date | 9 August – 23 August |
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 British team, who claimed 14 medals in total, including eight golds.[1][2]
Contents
1 Events
1.1 Track cycling
1.2 Road cycling
1.3 Mountain bike
1.4 BMX
2 Medal table
3 Road cycling
4 Track cycling
4.1 Men
4.2 Women
5 Mountain biking
6 BMX
7 Broken records
8 Qualification
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
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![]() | ||
Road race | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
Track cycling![]() | ||
Individual pursuit | men | women |
Team pursuit | men | |
Sprint | men | women |
Team sprint | men | |
Points race | men | women |
Keirin | men | |
Madison | men | |
Mountain biking![]() | ||
Cross-country | men | women |
BMX![]() | ||
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 | ![]() | 8 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
3 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
10 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
12 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
16 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
17 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (20 nations) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |
Road cycling
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's road race | Samuel Sánchez ![]() | Fabian Cancellara ![]() | Alexandr Kolobnev ![]() |
Women's road race | Nicole Cooke ![]() | Emma Johansson ![]() | Tatiana Guderzo ![]() |
Men's time trial | Fabian Cancellara ![]() | Gustav Larsson ![]() | Levi Leipheimer ![]() |
Women's time trial | Kristin Armstrong ![]() | Emma Pooley ![]() | Karin Thürig ![]() |
Track cycling
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Keirin | Chris Hoy ![]() | Ross Edgar ![]() | Kiyofumi Nagai ![]() |
Madison | ![]() Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Fernando Perez | ![]() Joan Llaneras Antonio Tauler | ![]() Mikhail Ignatiev Alexei Markov |
points race | Joan Llaneras ![]() | Roger Kluge ![]() | Chris Newton ![]() |
individual pursuit | Bradley Wiggins ![]() | Hayden Roulston ![]() | Steven Burke ![]() |
team pursuit | ![]() Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins | ![]() Alex Nicki Rasmussen Michael Moerkoev Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Færk Christensen* | ![]() Sam Bewley Jesse Sergent Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan Westley Gough* |
individual sprint | Chris Hoy ![]() | Jason Kenny ![]() | Mickaël Bourgain ![]() |
team sprint | ![]() Jamie Staff Jason Kenny Chris Hoy | ![]() Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Arnaud Tournant | ![]() René Enders Maximillian Levy Stefan Nimke |
Women
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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points race | Marianne Vos ![]() | Yoanka González ![]() | Leire Olaberría ![]() |
pursuit | Rebecca Romero ![]() | Wendy Houvenaghel ![]() | Lesya Kalytovska ![]() |
sprint | Victoria Pendleton ![]() | Anna Meares ![]() | Guo Shuang ![]() |
* Participate in the preliminary round only.
Mountain biking
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's | Julien Absalon ![]() | Jean-Christophe Péraud ![]() | Nino Schurter ![]() |
Women's | Sabine Spitz ![]() | Maja Włoszczowska ![]() | Irina Kalentieva ![]() |
BMX
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's | Māris Štrombergs ![]() | Mike Day ![]() | Donny Robinson ![]() |
Women's | Anne-Caroline Chausson ![]() | Laëtitia Le Corguillé ![]() | Jill Kintner ![]() |
Broken records
Event | Time | Name | Nation | Date | Record |
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Men's Sprint | 9.815 | Chris Hoy | ![]() | 2008-08-17 | OR |
Men's Individual pursuit | 4:15.031 | Bradley Wiggins | ![]() | 2008-08-15 | OR |
Men's Team pursuit | 3:53.312 | Bradley Wiggins Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Ed Clancy | ![]() | 2008-08-18 | OR |
Women's Sprint | 10.963 | Victoria Pendleton | ![]() | 2008-08-17 | OR |
Qualification
See also
- Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
References
^ "How GB cycling went from tragic to magic". BBC. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2009-05-07..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ "How Team GB's weekend of glory happened". Metro. 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
External links
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- Union Cycliste Internationale
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