Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venues	Laoshan BMX Field Laoshan Mountain Bike Course Urban Road Cycling Course Laoshan Velodrome
Date	9 August – 23 August 2008
Competitors	508 from 66 nations
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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

• 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
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
Men's road race details	Samuel Sánchez   Spain	Fabian Cancellara   Switzerland	Alexandr Kolobnev   Russia
Men's time trial details	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 details	Kristin Armstrong   United States	Emma Pooley   Great Britain	Karin Thürig   Switzerland

Track cycling

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Keirin details	Chris Hoy   Great Britain	Ross Edgar   Great Britain	Kiyofumi Nagai   Japan
Madison details	Argentina  (ARG) Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Fernando Pérez	Spain  (ESP) Joan Llaneras Antonio Tauler	Russia  (RUS) Mikhail Ignatiev Alexei Markov
Points race details	Joan Llaneras   Spain	Roger Kluge   Germany	Chris Newton   Great Britain
Individual pursuit details	Bradley Wiggins   Great Britain	Hayden Roulston   New Zealand	Steven Burke   Great Britain
Team pursuit details	Great Britain  (GBR) Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins	Denmark  (DEN) Alex Nicki Rasmussen Michael Moerkoev Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Færk Christensen*	New Zealand  (NZL) Sam Bewley Jesse Sergent Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan Westley Gough*
Individual sprint details	Chris Hoy   Great Britain	Jason Kenny   Great Britain	Mickaël Bourgain   France
Team sprint details	Great Britain  (GBR) Jamie Staff Jason Kenny Chris Hoy	France  (FRA) Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Arnaud Tournant	Germany  (GER) René Enders Maximilian Levy Stefan Nimke

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race details	Marianne Vos   Netherlands	Yoanka González   Cuba	Leire Olaberría   Spain
Pursuit details	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
Men's details	Julien Absalon   France	Jean-Christophe Péraud   France	Nino Schurter   Switzerland
Women's details	Sabine Spitz   Germany	Maja Włoszczowska   Poland	Irina Kalentieva   Russia

BMX

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Māris Štrombergs   Latvia	Mike Day   United States	Donny Robinson   United States
Women's details	Anne-Caroline Chausson   France	Laëtitia Le Corguillé   France	Jill Kintner   United States

Broken records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Event	Time	Name	Nation	Date	Record
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

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

See also

• Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

References

1. "How GB cycling went from tragic to magic". BBC. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
2. "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