Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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Summary

Legend

• TS — Team sprint
• KE — Keirin
• SP — Sprint
• TP — Team pursuit
• IP — Individual pursuit
• MA — Madison
• PR — Points race
• RR — Road race
• TT — Individual time trial
• Q — Quotas
• R — Riders

Nation	Track										Road				MTB		BMX		Total
	Men							Women			Men		Women		M	W	M	W	Q	R
	TS	KE	SP	TP	IP	MA	PR	SP	IP	PR	RR	TT	RR	TT
Algeria											1								1	1
Argentina						X	1				3	1			1		2	2	11	10
Australia	X	2	2	X	2		1	1	1	1	5	2	3	1	1	1	3	2	30	28
Austria											2		2	1	1	1			7	6
Belarus							1	1			3	1							6	5
Belgium						X	1				5	1	1		3				12	11
Brazil											2		1		1	1			5	5
Bulgaria											2								2	2
Canada						X	1			1	3	2	3	1	2	2	1	1	18	15
Chile							1				2				1	1			5	5
China	X	1	1					1		1	1		2	2	1	2		1	14	12
Chinese Taipei							1												1	1
Colombia				X	1				1	1	3	1			1		3		12	13
Costa Rica											1				1				2	2
Croatia											3	1							4	3
Cuba								1		1	1		1						4	4
Czech Republic	X	1	1			X	1		1	1	2				1	1	1	1	13	12
Denmark				X		X	1			1	3	2	1	1	2		1	1	15	15
Ecuador																	1		1	1
El Salvador									1	1	1								3	2
Estonia			1								2	1	1						5	4
France	X	2	2	X	1	X	1	1		1	5		3	2	3	1	2	2	29	28
Germany	X	2	2			X	1		1	1	5	2	3	2	3	2			26	20
Great Britain	X	2	2	X	2	X	1	1	2	1	4	1	3	2	2		1	1	28	25
Greece	X	2	1																4	4
Hong Kong							1			1	1				1				4	4
Hungary											2	1			1		1	1	6	5
Iran											3	1							4	3
Ireland					1						2				1				4	4
Italy		1	1			X	1			1	5	2	3	1	2	1	1		20	15
Jamaica		1																	1	1
Japan	X	2	2				1	1		1	2	1	1		1	1	1		15	14
Kazakhstan											2	1	1	1					5	3
Latvia											2	1					3		6	5
Libya											1								1	1
Lithuania								1	2	1	2		3	1					10	8
Luxembourg											3	1							4	3
Malaysia	X	2	1																4	3
Mauritius													1						1	1
Mexico											1		1						2	2
Moldova					1						1								2	1
Namibia											1				1				2	2
Netherlands	X	2	2	X	2	X	1	2		1	5	2	3	2	2	1	3	1	32	27
New Zealand				X	1	X	1		1	1	3		2		1	1	1	1	15	17
Norway											4		1			2	1		8	8
Poland	X	1	1				1				3	1	1		1	2			12	11
Portugal											2								2	2
Russia	X	2	1	X	2	X	1	1		1	5	2	3	1	1	2			25	22
Serbia											2								2	2
Slovakia											3	1				1			5	4
Slovenia											4	1	1			1			7	6
South Africa											3	1	2		1	1	1		9	8
South Korea										1	1		2						4	4
Spain				X	2	X	1			1	5	2	2	1	3	1			20	19
Sweden											3	1	3	2	2				11	8
Switzerland						X			1		1	1	3	2	3	2	1	1	16	14
Thailand													1						1	1
Tunisia											1								1	1
Turkey															1				1	1
Ukraine		1		X	2	X	1		1	1	4	2	3		1				18	16
United States	X	1	1		1	X	1	1	1	1	5	2	3	2	2	2	3	1	29	24
Uruguay							1												1	1
Uzbekistan											1								1	1
Venezuela											1		2				1		4	4
Zimbabwe															1				1	1
Total: 65 NOCs	13	25	21	10	18	16	23	12	13	22	143	39	66	25	50	30	32	16	574	511

Qualification timeline

Event	Date	Venue
Track
2007 UCI "B" World Championships	26 June – 1 July 2007	Cape Town
2007–08 UCI Track World Cup	November 2007 – February 2008	-
2008 UCI Track World Championships	26–30 March 2008	Manchester
UCI Track World Ranking [ permanent dead link ]	30 March 2008	-
Road
2007 UCI "B" World Championships	26 June – 1 July 2007	Cape Town
2007 UCI Road World Championships	25–30 September 2007	Stuttgart
2007 UCI ProTour	30 October 2007	-
2006–2007 UCI Africa Tour	30 October 2007	-
2006–2007 UCI America Tour	30 October 2007	-
2006–2007 UCI Asia Tour	30 October 2007	-
2006–2007 UCI Europe Tour	30 October 2007	-
2006–2007 UCI Oceania Tour	30 October 2007	-
2008 UCI Women's World Cup	1 June 2008	-
Mountainbike
2007 Pan American Championships	8–11 March 2007	Villa la Angostura
2007 Oceania Championships	23–25 March 2007	Thredbo
2007 African Championships [ permanent dead link ]	28–29 July 2007	Windhoek
2007 Asian Championships [ permanent dead link ]	4–5 August 2007	Suzhou
UCI ranking by nation	31 December 2007	-
BMX
2008 UCI BMX World Championships	29 May – 1 June 2008	Taiyuan
UCI ranking by nation	31 May 2008	-

Track

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter up to 2 athletes in each individual event, except points race where it can enter only 1 athlete. NOC may also enter up to 1 team in each team event.

Champions in the World Championship, World Cup, and "B" World Championship automatically qualify (Nontransferable place), as do several of the athletes with the highest UCI rankings in their event on 30 March 2008. Additionally, the tripartite commission (made up of the IOC, UCI and ANOC) may issue invitational places.

Men's sprint

Event	Team sprint	Keirin	Sprint
World Championships	France	Chris Hoy	Chris Hoy
World Cup	-*	-*	Kévin Sireau
"B" World Championships	–	Gadi Chait	Daniel Novikov
UCI ranking	Australia   Netherlands   Great Britain   China   Germany   Greece   Russia   Japan   Malaysia   United States   Czech Republic   Poland*	Arnaud Tournant Teun Mulder Christos Volikakis Ryan Bayley Roberto Chiappa Toshiaki Fushimi Carsten Bergemann Josiah Ng Onn Lam Ricardo Lynch Sergey Borisov* Andriy Vynokurov**	Roberto Chiappa Ryan Bayley Kazunari Watanabe Theo Bos Maximilian Levy
1 rider from each qualified sprint team	–	France   Australia   Netherlands   Great Britain   China   Germany   Greece   Russia   Japan   Malaysia   United States   Czech Republic   Poland	France   Australia   Netherlands   Great Britain   China   Germany   Greece   Russia   Japan   Malaysia   United States   Czech Republic   Poland
Total	13	25	21

* Since World Cup leader qualified through World Championships, the next competitor from the world rankings qualify.

** South Africa replaced by the next competitor from the world rankings

Men's pursuit

Event	Team pursuit	Individual pursuit
World Championships	Great Britain	Bradley Wiggins
World Cup	-*	Volodymyr Dyudya
"B" World Championships	–	Alexandre Pliușchin
UCI ranking	Denmark   Australia   New Zealand   Netherlands   Spain   Ukraine   Russia   France   Colombia*	Jenning Huizenga Taylor Phinney Phillip Thuaux Sergi Escobar Roure Alexander Serov David O'Loughlin
1 rider from each qualified pursuit team	–	Great Britain   Denmark   Australia   New Zealand   Netherlands   Spain   Ukraine   Russia   France   Colombia
Total	10	18

* Since World Cup leader qualified through World Championships, the next competitor from the world rankings qualify.

Men's points

Event	Madison	Points race
World Championships	Great Britain	Vasil Kiryienka
World Cup	Denmark	Chris Newton
"B" World Championships	–	Radoslav Konstantinov *
UCI ranking	Belgium   Switzerland   Netherlands   Germany   United States   Italy   Spain   Argentina   Russia   France   Czech Republic   New Zealand   Ukraine   Canada	Cameron Meyer Rafał Ratajczyk Makoto Iijima Wong Kam-po Milton Wynants Vazquez Marco Arriagada Feng Chun-kai*
1 rider from each qualified madison team	–	Denmark   Belgium   Switzerland   Netherlands   Germany   United States   Italy   Spain   Argentina   Russia   France   Czech Republic   New Zealand   Ukraine   Canada
Total	16	23

* Bulgaria replaced by the next competitor from the world rankings

Women

Event	Sprint	Individual pursuit	Points race
World Championships	Victoria Pendleton	Rebecca Romero	Marianne Vos
World Cup	Willy Kanis	Vilija Sereikaitė	Li Yan
"B" World Championships	Sakie Tsukuda	Evelyn García	Satomi Wadami
UCI ranking	Jennie Reed Willy Kanis Clara Sanchez Simona Krupeckaitė Guo Shuang Lisandra Guerra Natallia Tsylinskaya Anna Meares Svetlana Grankovskaya	Rebecca Romero Sarah Hammer Vilija Sereikaitė Lesya Kalytovska Katie Mactier María Luisa Calle Alison Shanks Lada Kozlíková Verena Joos Karin Thürig	Vera Carrara Yoanka González Wong Wan Yiu Leire Olaberria Trine Schmidt Olga Slyusareva Pascale Jeuland Gina Grain Lee Min-Hye Belem Guerrero
all individual pursuit competitors	–	–	Rebecca Romero Vilija Sereikaitė Evelyn García Sarah Hammer Lesya Kalytovska Katie Mactier María Luisa Calle Alison Shanks Lada Kozlíková Verena Joos Karin Thürig
Total	12	13	22

Road

An NOC may enter up to 5 men and 3 women if qualified through the UCI ranking. Otherwise it may enter up to 2 men and 2 women. Each NOC will receive athlete quota places according to the UCI ranking by nations in the tours. Also, each NOC with a rider in individual ranking in the Pro Tour and in the corresponding top places in continental tours will receive 1 place if not qualified through Nations Ranking. Places for the time trial event are included in the total quota for cycling disciplines. Only riders involved in the road, track or mountain biking or BMX can take part in the individual time trial race.

Men's road race

Event	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
UCI ProTour	1 to 10	Spain   Italy   Australia   Russia   Germany   Netherlands   Belgium   United States   France	5
		Luxembourg	3*
	11 to 15	Great Britain   Slovenia   Norway   Ukraine	4
		Sweden	3**
	all ranked individuals	Li Fuyu	1**
UCI Africa Tour	1st	South Africa	3
	2nd	Tunisia	1**
	individual top 5	Mohamed Ali Ahmed	1**
UCI America Tour	1 to 3	Argentina   Canada   Colombia	3
	4 to 6	Brazil	2
		Venezuela   Mexico	1**
	individual top 20	Henry Raabe Pedro Pablo Pérez	1**
UCI Asia Tour	1st	Iran	3
	2 to 4	Japan   Kazakhstan	2
		Hong Kong	1**
	individual top 5	Park Sung-Baek	1**
UCI Europe Tour	1 to 6	Poland   Portugal***   Slovakia   Croatia   Denmark   Belarus	3
	7 to 16	Austria   Estonia   Lithuania   Switzerland****   Bulgaria   Czech Republic   Latvia   Serbia   Hungary   Ireland	2
UCI Oceania Tour	1st	New Zealand	3
"B" World Championships	individual top 5	Erik Hoffmann Alexandre Pliușchin Hichem Chaabane Richard Rodríguez Vladimir Tuychiev Francisco Cabrera* Mario Contreras*	Up to 2
Total			143

* Teams could qualify only the number of riders that they have in the corresponding tour. Luxembourg only qualified 3 riders in the pro tour. The left over places were taken by teams from the "B" World Championships.

** In tours where individual riders qualified, the teams that qualified more than one athlete lost quota places in order to maintain the overall quotas. Sweden, Tunisia, Venezuela, Mexico and Hong Kong all lost 1 quota place to China, Libya, Costa Rica, Cuba and South Korea respectively.

*** Portugal had 3 quota places, but chose to use only two.

**** Switzerland had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one.

Men's individual time trial

Event	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
UCI ProTour	1 to 10	Spain   Italy   Australia   Russia   Luxembourg   Germany   Netherlands   Belgium   United States   France	1
UCI Africa Tour	1st	South Africa	1
UCI America Tour	1 to 4	Argentina   Canada   Brazil   Colombia	1
UCI Asia Tour	1st and 2nd	Iran   Japan	1
UCI Europe Tour	1 to 7	Poland   Slovenia   Slovakia   Croatia   Denmark   Ukraine   Estonia	1
UCI Oceania Tour	1st	New Zealand	1
World Championships	individual top 15	Fabian Cancellara László Bodrogi Stef Clement Bert Grabsch Vladimir Gusev Iván Gutiérrez Andrey Mizurov Vasili Kyrienka Bradley Wiggins David Zabriskie Raivis Belohvoščiks Marco Pinotti Gustav Larsson Andriy Hrivko Ryder Hesjedal Brian Vandborg Ben Day	1
Total			39

Women's road race

Event	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
World Tour Rankings	1 to 16	Netherlands   Germany   Italy   United States   Australia   Sweden   Switzerland   Lithuania   Great Britain   France   Russia   Austria**   Spain**   Canada   China**   Ukraine	3
	17 to 24	Venezuela   South Africa   New Zealand	2
		Belgium   Japan   Mexico   Brazil   Denmark	1*
	individual top 100	Grete Treier Yumari González Valdivieso Maja Włoszczowska Anita Valen-De Vries Sigrid Corneo Zulfiya Zabirova	1*
"B" World Championships	individual top 3	Sung Eun-Go Hae Ok-Jeong Thatsani Wichana	Up to 2
Invitation places	1	Mauritius
Total			66

* As other quota places are awarded to ranked athletes, the quota places for the ranked NOCs will be decreased to keep the total number of athletes constant.

** Austria, China and Spain had 3 quota places, but chose to use only two.

Women's individual time trial

Event	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
World Tour Rankings	1 to 15	Netherlands   Germany   Italy   United States   Australia   Sweden   Switzerland   Lithuania   Great Britain   France   Russia   Austria   Spain   Canada   China	1
World Championships	individual top 10	Hanka Kupfernagel Kristin Armstrong Priska Doppmann Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli Emma Pooley Li Meifang Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel Zulfiya Zabirova Susanne Ljungskog Trine Schmidt	1
Total			25

Mountainbike

An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 2 women athletes.

Men

Mountainbike men	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
UCI ranking by nation	1 to 5	France   Switzerland   Spain   Belgium   Germany	3
	6 to 13	United States   Netherlands   Sweden   Canada   Austria**   Denmark   Italy   Great Britain	2
	14 to 24	Czech Republic   New Zealand   Australia   Poland   Russia   Colombia   Ukraine   Brazil   Chile   South Africa   Ireland   Hungary*   Turkey*   Japan**	1
African Championships	individual top 2	Mannie Heymans Antipas Kwari	1
American Championships	individual top 2	Luciano Caracioli Paolo Montolla Castillo	1
Asian Championships	individual top 2	Ji Junhua Chan Chun Hing	1
Oceania Championships	individual top 2*		1
Total			50

* Since both Australia and New Zealand (the only competitors in the Oceania continental championships) qualified through world rankings, the next two competitors from the world rankings (Hungary and Turkey) qualified a single rider.

** Austria had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one and the next competitor from the world rankings (Japan) qualified a single rider

Women

Mountainbike women	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
UCI ranking by nation	1 to 8	China   Germany   United States   Canada   Norway   Poland   Russia   Switzerland	2
	9 to 18	France   Czech Republic   Spain   Slovenia   Netherlands   Austria   New Zealand   Italy   Brazil   Slovakia	1
African Championships	individual 1st	Yolande Speedy	1
American Championship	individual 1st	Francisca Campos	1
Asian Championship	individual 1st	Rie Katayama	1
Oceania Championship	individual 1st	Tory Thomas	1
Total			30

BMX

An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 2 women if qualified through the UCI ranking. Otherwise it may enter up to 1 man and 1 woman.

Men

Event	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
UCI ranking by nation	1 to 5	United States   Australia   Latvia   Netherlands   Colombia	3
	6 to 8	France   Argentina   New Zealand*	2
	9 to 11	Czech Republic   Venezuela   Ecuador	1
UCI World Championship	1 to 6	South Africa   Italy   Great Britain   Switzerland   Denmark   Canada   Norway**   Hungary**   Japan**	1
Invitation places	2	-	1
Total			32

* New Zealand had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one.

** The left over places were taken by teams from the World Championships.

Women

Event	Ranking by nation	Qualified	Athletes per NOC
UCI ranking by nation	1 to 4	France   New Zealand*   Australia   Argentina	2
	5 to 8	Czech Republic   United States   Netherlands   Canada	1
UCI World Championship	1 to 3	Great Britain   Denmark   Switzerland   Hungary**	1
Invitation places	1	China	1
Total			16

* New Zealand had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one.

** The left over places were taken by teams from the World Championships.

References

• Qualifications for Men's Road events at the Olympic Games
• 2008 Olympic Games road cycling: distribution of places for Elite Women
• Mountain bike: publication of rankings by nation and qualification for the Olympic Games
• Qualification for track events at the Olympic Games
• BMX: Qualifying places awarded for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games