Men's cross-country cycling at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Hadleigh Farm | ||||||||||||
Date | 12 August | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 47 from 31 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:29:07 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of cyclists | ||
Road cycling | ||
Road race | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
Track cycling | ||
Sprint | men | women |
Team sprint | men | women |
Keirin | men | women |
Team pursuit | men | women |
Omnium | men | women |
Mountain biking | ||
Cross-country | men | women |
BMX | ||
BMX | men | women |
Qualification | ||
The men's cross-country cycling event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at Hadleigh Farm on 12 August. [1]
Fifty cyclists from 32 countries competed. Jaroslav Kulhavý from the Czech Republic won the gold medal, beating Switzerland's Nino Schurter by one second.
The competition began at 1:30 pm with a mass start and involved a set number of laps (determined the day before the competition) around the 4.8 km course at Hadleigh Farm in Essex. [2] The distance of the race was 34.1 km.
All times are British Summer Time
Date | Time | Round |
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Sunday 12 August 2012 | 13:30 | Final |
The entry list was published on 26 July. [3]
Hadleigh Farm is an educational working farm and cross-country cycling venue located in Hadleigh, within the borough of Castle Point, in the county of Essex. The men's and women's mountain biking events of the 2012 Summer Olympics took place at Hadleigh Farm on 11 and 12 August.
The cycling competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at five venues between 28 July and 12 August. The venues were the London Velopark for track cycling and BMX, and Hadleigh Farm, in Essex, for mountain biking. The road races took place over a course starting and ending in The Mall in central London and heading out into Surrey, while the time trials started and finished at Hampton Court Palace in Richmond upon Thames. Eighteen events were contested and around 500 athletes participated.
Chun Hing ChanMH is a Hong Kong former professional racing cyclist. He specialised in cross-country mountain biking although he also participated in road races.
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Yana Belomoyna is a Ukrainian cross-country mountain biker. She holds the 2017 UCI Cross-country Women's Elite #1 ranking. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's cross-country at Hadleigh Farm, finishing in 13th place. She was the 2014 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup champion in the U23 category.
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