Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Cycling at the XIV Paralympic Games
Pictograms for road (left) and track cycling (right)
Venue	London Velopark Brands Hatch
Dates	5 – 8 September 2012
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Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics consisted of 50 events in two main disciplines, track cycling and road cycling. Track cycling was held in London Velopark from 30 August to 2 September, and road cycling took place at Brands Hatch from September 5 to September 8. ^[1]

Classification

A tandem bicycle, with Stephanie Morton acting as Felicity Johnson's pilot.

Cyclists are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows cyclists to compete against others with a similar level of function. The class number indicates the severity of impairment with "1" being most impaired.

Cycling classes are: ^[2]

• B: Blind and visually impaired cyclists use a Tandem bicycle with a sighted pilot on the front - both athletes are awarded medals
• H 1–4: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their legs use a handcycle
• T 1–2: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their balance use a tricycle
• C 1-5: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their legs, arms and/or trunk but are capable of using a standard bicycle

Events

For each of the events below, medals are contested for one or more of the above classifications.

Road cycling

Men's individual road race • B • H1 • H2 • H3 • H4 • C1-3 • C4-5 Men's individual time trial • B • H1 • H2 • H3 • H4 • C1 • C2 • C3 • C4 • C5

Women's individual road race • B • H1-3 • H4 • C1-3 • C4-5 Women's individual time trial • B • H1-2 • H3 • H4 • C1-3 • C4 • C5

Mixed individual road race • T1-2 Mixed individual time trial • T1-2 Mixed team relay • H1-4

Track cycling

Men's 1 km time trial • B • C1-3 • C4-5 Men's individual pursuit • B • C1 • C2 • C3 • C4 • C5 Men's individual sprint • B

Women's 500m time trial • C1-3 • C4-5 Women's 1 km time trial • B Women's individual pursuit • B • C1-3 • C4 • C5 Mixed team sprint • C1-5

Participating nations

223 cyclists from 48 nations including 37 guides from 20 selected nations competed.

•   Albania  (1)
•   Argentina  (2)+ 1 pilot
•   Australia  (12)+ 3 pilots
•   Austria  (7)
•   Belarus  (1)+ 1 pilot
•   Belgium  (4)
•   Brazil  (2)
•   Burkina Faso  (2)
•   Canada  (12)+ 3 pilots
•   China  (8)
•   Colombia  (3)
•   Costa Rica  (1)
•   Croatia  (2)
•   Cuba  (1)
•   Czech Republic  (8)
•   Denmark  (2)
•   Dominican Republic  (1)
•   Finland  (1)+ 1 pilot
•   France  (11)+ 3 pilots
•   Germany  (15)+ 1 pilot
•   Ghana  (1)
•   Great Britain  (15)+ 4 pilots
•   Greece  (3)+ 2 pilots
•   Haiti  (1)
•   Iran  (1)
•   Ireland  (7)+ 3 pilots
•   Israel  (3)
•   Italy  (12)+ 1 pilot
•   Japan  (3)+ 1 pilot
•   Lebanon  (1)
•   Malaysia  (1)+ 1 pilot
•   Netherlands  (8)+ 3 pilots
•   New Zealand  (1)+ 1 pilot
•   Norway  (2)
•   Poland  (5)+ 1 pilot
•   Romania  (2)
•   Russia  (2)
•   Serbia  (1)+ 1 pilot
•   Slovakia  (5)+ 1 pilot
•   Slovenia  (1)
•   South Africa  (6)
•   South Korea  (2)
•   Spain  (12)+ 4 pilots
•   Sweden  (1)
•   Switzerland  (8)
•   Ukraine  (1)
•   United States  (16)+ 1 pilot
•   Venezuela  (2)

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain  (GBR)	8	9	5	22
2	United States  (USA)	6	5	6	17
3	China  (CHN)	6	4	5	15
4	Australia  (AUS)	6	4	4	14
5	Germany  (GER)	4	7	3	14
6	Italy  (ITA)	4	3	3	10
7	Poland  (POL)	2	4	0	6
8	Spain  (ESP)	2	2	3	7
9	Switzerland  (SUI)	2	2	2	6
10	Ireland  (IRL)	2	1	2	5
11	Ukraine  (UKR)	2	0	0	2
12	Netherlands  (NED)	1	2	3	6
13	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1	2	2	5
14	Austria  (AUT)	1	1	2	4
	New Zealand  (NZL)	1	1	2	4
16	Romania  (ROU)	1	1	0	2
17	Canada  (CAN)	1	0	1	2
18	Israel  (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa  (RSA)	0	1	0	1
20	France  (FRA)	0	0	2	2
21	Argentina  (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Japan  (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Russia  (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia  (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		50	50	50	150

Road cycling

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	B	Christian Venge   Spain	Ivano Pizzi   Italy	James Brown   Ireland
	H1	Mark Rohan   Ireland	Koby Lion   Israel	Wolfgang Schattauer   Austria
	H2	Heinz Frei   Switzerland	Walter Ablinger   Austria	Vittorio Podestà   Italy
	H3	Rafał Wilk   Poland	Nigel Barley   Australia	Bernd Jeffre   Germany
	H4	Alessandro Zanardi   Italy	Norbert Mosandl   Germany	Oscar Sanchez   United States
	C1	Michael Teuber   Germany	Mark Colbourne   Great Britain	Zhang Yu Li   China
	C2	Tobias Graf   Germany	Guihua Liang   China	Maurice Eckhard Tió   Spain
	C3	David Nicholas   Australia	Joseph Berenyi   United States	Masaki Fujita   Japan
	C4	Jiří Ježek   Czech Republic	Carol-Eduard Novak   Romania	Jiří Bouška   Czech Republic
	C5	Yegor Dementyev   Ukraine	Xinyang Liu   China	Michael Gallagher   Australia
Road race details	B	Ivano Pizzi   Italy	Krzysztof Kosikowski   Poland	Vladislav Janovjak   Slovakia
	H1	Mark Rohan   Ireland	Tobias Fankhauser   Switzerland	Wolfgang Schattauer   Austria
	H2	Walter Ablinger   Austria	Jean-Marc Berset   Switzerland	Vittorio Podestà   Italy
	H3	Rafał Wilk   Poland	Vico Merklein   Germany	Joël Jeannot   France
	H4	Alessandro Zanardi   Italy	Ernst van Dyk   South Africa	Wim Decleir   Belgium
	C1-3	Roberto Bargna   Italy	Steffen Warias   Germany	David Nicholas   Australia
	C4-5	Yegor Dementyev   Ukraine	Xinyang Liu   China	Michele Pittacolo   Italy

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	B	Kathrin Goeken   Netherlands	Phillipa Gray   New Zealand	Catherine Walsh   Ireland
	H1-2	Marianna Davis   United States	Karen Darke   Great Britain	Ursula Schwaller   Switzerland
	H3	Sandra Graf   Switzerland	Monica Bascio   United States	Svetlana Moshkovich   Russia
	H4	Andrea Eskau   Germany	Dorothee Vieth   Germany	Laura de Vaan   Netherlands
	C1-3	Allison Jones   United States	Tereza Diepoldová   Czech Republic	Sini Zeng   China
	C4	Megan Fisher   United States	Susan Powell   Australia	Marie-Claude Molnar   Canada
	C5	Sarah Storey   Great Britain	Anna Harkowska   Poland	Kelly Crowley   United States
Road race details	B	Robbi Weldon   Canada	Josefa Benitez Guzman   Spain	Kathrin Goeken   Netherlands
	H1-3	Marianna Davis   United States	Monica Bascio   United States	Rachel Morris   Great Britain
	H4	Andrea Eskau   Germany	Laura de Vaan   Netherlands	Dorothee Vieth   Germany
	C1-3	Sini Zeng   China	Denise Schindler   Germany	Allison Jones   United States
	C4-5	Sarah Storey   Great Britain	Anna Harkowska   Poland	Kelly Crowley   United States

Mixed events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	T1-2	Carol Cooke   Australia	Hans-Peter Durst   Germany	David Stone   Great Britain
Road race details	T1-2	David Stone   Great Britain	Giorgio Farroni   Italy	David Vondracek   Czech Republic
Team Relay details	H1-4	United States  (USA) Marianna Davis Oscar Sanchez Matthew Updike	Italy  (ITA) Alex Zanardi Vittorio Podesta Francesca Fenocchio	Switzerland  (SUI) Jean-Marc Berset Ursula Schwaller Heinz Frei

Track cycling

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 km time trial details	B	Neil Fachie   Great Britain	José Enrique Porto Lareo   Spain	Rinne Oost   Netherlands
	C1-3	Zhang Yu Li   China	Mark Colbourne   Great Britain	Tobias Graf   Germany
	C4-5	Alfonso Cabello   Spain	Jon-Allan Butterworth   Great Britain	Xinyang Liu   China
Individual pursuit details	B	Kieran Modra   Australia	Bryce Lindores   Australia	Miguel Ángel Clemente Solano   Spain
	C1	Mark Colbourne   Great Britain	Zhang Yu Li   China	Rodrigo Fernando López   Argentina
	C2	Guihua Liang   China	Tobias Graf   Germany	Laurent Thirionet   France
	C3	Joseph Berenyi   United States	Shaun McKeown   Great Britain	Darren Kenny   Great Britain
	C4	Carol-Eduard Novak   Romania	Jiří Ježek   Czech Republic	Jody Cundy   Great Britain
	C5	Michael Gallagher   Australia	Jon-Allan Butterworth   Great Britain	Liu Xinyang   China
Individual Sprint details	B	Anthony Kappes   Great Britain	Neil Fachie   Great Britain	José Enrique Porto Lareo   Spain

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	C1-3 (500 m)	He Yin   China	Alyda Norbruis   Netherlands	Jayme Paris   Australia
	C4-5 (500 m)	Sarah Storey   Great Britain	Jennifer Schuble   United States	Jianping Ruan   China
	B (1 km)	Felicity Johnson   Australia	Aileen McGlynn   Great Britain	Phillipa Gray   New Zealand
Individual pursuit details	B	Phillipa Gray   New Zealand	Catherine Walsh   Ireland	Aileen McGlynn   Great Britain
	C1-3	Sini Zeng   China	Simone Kennedy   Australia	Allison Jones   United States
	C4	Susan Powell   Australia	Megan Fisher   United States	Alexandra Green   Australia
	C5	Sarah Storey   Great Britain	Anna Harkowska   Poland	Fiona Southorn   New Zealand

Mixed events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team Sprint details	C1-5	China  (CHN) Xiaofei Ji Xinyang Liu Hao Xie	Great Britain  (GBR) Jon-Allan Butterworth Darren Kenny Richard Waddon	United States  (USA) Joseph Berenyi Sam Kavanagh Jennifer Schuble

See also

• Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Schedule & Results - Paralympics". LOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
2. "Cycling Track - Classification". LOCOG. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2012.

External links

• Official site of the 2012 Summer Paralympics Archived 4 September 2012 at archive.today
• IPC
• UCI:Union Cycliste Internationale
• Results Book – Road
• Results Book – Track