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| Women's BMX at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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 Olympic BMX racing | ||||||||||
| Venue | Laoshan BMX Field | |||||||||
| Date | August 20, 2008 (seeding) August 22, 2008 (semifinals and final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 16 from 13 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 35.976 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 |
The women's BMX racing competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 20–22 at the Laoshan BMX Field, the first to be officially featured in the Olympic cycling program.
Coming out of retirement from her sporting career to try out for BMX at age thirty, France's Anne-Caroline Chausson escaped from an early race crash that left two riders off the ramp to claim the event's inaugural Olympic gold medal. She thundered home on the final stretch to a spectacular finish with a fastest time in 35.976. [1] [2] Chausson also enjoyed her teammate Laëtitia Le Corguillé taking home the silver in 38.042, as she finished the race behind the leader by nearly seven hundredths of a second (0.07) and also, handed the French squad a straight 1–2 finish on the medal podium. [3] Meanwhile, United States' Jill Kintner came up with a powerful, stalwart ride to earn the bronze in 38.674, edging out New Zealand's Sarah Walker by a short sprint distance. [4] [5]
