Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venues	Georgia International Horse Park Atlanta and surrounding area Stone Mountain Velodrome
Date	July 21–28, 1996
Competitors	477 from 68 nations
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The cycling competitions at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta consisted of three separate categories: road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking. The road cycling events took place in downtown Atlanta, track cycling was carried out at the Stone Mountain velodrome in neighboring DeKalb County, and the mountain biking events were held at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers. ^[1]

Road

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race details	Pascal Richard   Switzerland	Rolf Sørensen   Denmark	Max Sciandri   Great Britain
Men's time trial details	Miguel Indurain   Spain	Abraham Olano   Spain	Chris Boardman   Great Britain
Women's road race details	Jeannie Longo   France	Imelda Chiappa   Italy	Clara Hughes   Canada
Women's time trial details	Zulfiya Zabirova   Russia	Jeannie Longo   France	Clara Hughes   Canada

Track

Men’s

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
points race details	Silvio Martinello   Italy	Brian Walton   Canada	Stuart O'Grady   Australia
pursuit details	Andrea Collinelli   Italy	Philippe Ermenault   France	Bradley McGee   Australia
team pursuit details	France  (FRA) Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	Russia  (RUS) Eduard Gritsun Nikolay Kuznetsov Alexei Markov Anton Shantyr	Australia  (AUS) Brett Aitken Stuart O'Grady Timothy O'Shannessey Dean Woods
sprint details	Jens Fiedler   Germany	Marty Nothstein   United States	Curt Harnett   Canada
time trial details	Florian Rousseau   France	Erin Hartwell   United States	Takanobu Jumonji   Japan

Women’s

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
points race details	Nathalie Lancien   France	Ingrid Haringa   Netherlands	Lucy Tyler-Sharman   Australia
pursuit details	Antonella Bellutti   Italy	Marion Clignet   France	Judith Arndt   Germany
sprint details	Félicia Ballanger   France	Michelle Ferris   Australia	Ingrid Haringa   Netherlands

Mountain bike

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Bart Brentjens   Netherlands	Thomas Frischknecht   Switzerland	Miguel Martinez   France
Women's details	Paola Pezzo   Italy	Alison Sydor   Canada	Susan DeMattei   United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	5	3	1	9
2	Italy	4	1	0	5
3	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
4	Russia	1	1	0	2
	Spain	1	1	0	2
	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
7	Germany	1	0	1	2
8	Canada	0	2	3	5
9	United States	0	2	1	3
10	Australia	0	1	4	5
11	Denmark	0	1	0	1
12	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
13	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		14	14	14	42

Broken records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 1996 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling

Event	Name	Nation	Time	Date	Record
Men's flying 200 m time trial	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10"129	24 July	OR
Men's 1 km time trial	Florian Rousseau	France	1'02"712	24 July	OR
Men's individual pursuit	Andrea Collinelli	Italy	4'19"699	24 July	WR , OR
Men's team pursuit	Eduard Gritsun Nikolay Kuznetsov Aleksey Markov Anton Chantyr	Russia	4'08"785	26 July	OR
	Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	France	4'06"880	27 July	OR
	Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	France	4'05"930	27 July	OR
Women's flying 200 m time trial	Michelle Ferris	Australia	11"212	24 July	OR
Women's individual pursuit	Antonella Bellutti	Italy	3'34"130	25 July	OR
	Antonella Bellutti	Italy	3'32"371	25 July	OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. "Cycling at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
2. "Union Cycliste Internationale – Men – Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. October 21, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
3. "Union Cycliste Internationale – Women – Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. October 21, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.

External links

• Official Olympic Report