Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's track time trial

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The women's 500 metre time trial in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twelve cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for two laps (500 metres) of the track. [1]

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In a field of personal bests, 20-year-old World Champion for the 500 m time trial, Anna Meares from Australia, set a new world record to claim the gold medal in 33.952 seconds. The previous world record was held by Yonghua Jiang of China, who minutes previously had set a new Olympic record in this event to claim the silver medal with a time of 34.112 seconds. Natallia Tsylinskaya from Belarus was awarded the bronze medal.

Medalists

Gold medal with cup.svg Gold Silver medal with cup.svg Silver Bronze medal with cup.svg Bronze
Flag of Australia.svg  Anna Meares  (AUS)Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Jiang Yonghua  (CHN)Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Natallia Tsylinskaya  (BLR)

Records

Anna Meares's time of 33.952 seconds in the event set a new world record, beatingJiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.

World RecordJiang Yonghua (CHN)Kunming, China P.R.34.000 s11 August 2002
Olympic RecordFélicia Ballanger (FRA)Sydney, Australia34.140 s16 September 2000

Results

Final results [1]
RankRace
Number
NameCountry250 m
Time
500 m
Time
Gold medal icon.svg3 Anna Meares Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 19.16433.952 WR
Silver medal icon.svg7 Jiang Yonghua Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 19.19234.112
Bronze medal icon.svg4 Natallia Tsylinskaya Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 19.30534.167
423 Simona Krupeckaitė Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 19.51734.317
526 Yvonne Hijgenaar Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 19.51934.532
616 Victoria Pendleton Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 19.69634.626
76 Lori-Ann Muenzer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 19.63034.628
824 Nancy Contreras Reyes Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 19.52334.783
932 Svetlana Grankovskaya Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 19.73934.797
1021 Sayuri Osuga Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 19.70435.045
1117 Katrin Meinke Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 19.78935.088
1230 Tamilla Abassova Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 19.98235.147

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