Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Dunc Gray Veledrom in Bass Hill New South Wales.jpg
The Dunc Gray Velodrome
Venues Western Sydney Parklands
Sydney and surrounding area
Dunc Gray Velodrome
Date16 -20 September 2000
Competitors462 from 55 nations
  1996
2004  

Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics , 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking. [1]

Road cycling

GamesGoldSilverBronze
Men's road race
details
Jan Ullrich
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Alexander Vinokourov
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan
Andreas Klöden
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Men's time trial
details
Viatcheslav Ekimov
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Jan Ullrich
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Vacated [2]
Women's road race
details
Leontien Zijlaard
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Hanka Kupfernagel
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Diana Žiliūtė
Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania
Women's time trial
details
Leontien Zijlaard
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Mari Holden
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli
Flag of France.svg  France

Track cycling

Men

GamesGoldSilverBronze
Keirin
details
Florian Rousseau
Flag of France.svg  France
Gary Neiwand
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Jens Fiedler
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Madison
details
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)
Brett Aitken
Scott McGrory
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium  (BEL)
Etienne De Wilde
Matthew Gilmore
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)
Silvio Martinello
Marco Villa
Points race
details
Juan Llaneras
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Milton Wynants
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay
Alexey Markov
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Individual pursuit
details
Robert Bartko
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Jens Lehmann
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Bradley McGee
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Team pursuit
details
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Olaf Pollack
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)
Sergiy Chernyavsky
Sergiy Matveyev
Alexander Symonenko
Oleksandr Fedenko
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
Bradley Wiggins
Jon Clay
Rob Hayles
Individual sprint
details
Marty Nothstein
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Florian Rousseau
Flag of France.svg  France
Jens Fiedler
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Team sprint
details
Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)
Florian Rousseau
Arnaud Tournant
Laurent Gané
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)
Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
Jason Queally
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)
Gary Neiwand
Sean Eadie
Darryn Hill
Time trial
details
Jason Queally
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Stefan Nimke
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Shane Kelly
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia

Women

GamesGoldSilverBronze
Points race
details
Antonella Bellutti
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Leontien Zijlaard
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Olga Slioussareva
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
pursuit
details
Leontien Zijlaard
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Marion Clignet
Flag of France.svg  France
Yvonne McGregor
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Sprint
details
Félicia Ballanger
Flag of France.svg  France
Oksana Grishina
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Iryna Yanovych
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
time trial
details
Félicia Ballanger
Flag of France.svg  France
Michelle Ferris
Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Jiang Cuihua
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China

Mountain biking

GamesGoldSilverBronze
Men's
details
Miguel Martinez
Flag of France.svg  France
Filip Meirhaeghe
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Christoph Sauser
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Women's
details
Paola Pezzo
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Barbara Blatter
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland
Margarita Fullana
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)5218
2Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)34310
3Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands  (NED)3104
4Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)2013
5Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)1236
6Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)1124
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia  (RUS)1124
8Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)1102
9Flag of Spain.svg  Spain  (ESP)1012
10Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium  (BEL)0202
11Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI)0112
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)0112
13Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan  (KAZ)0101
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay  (URU)0101
15Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (CHN)0011
Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania  (LTU)0011
Totals (16 entries)18181753

Records broken

EventNameNationScoreDateRecord
Men's 1 km time trial Jason Queally Great Britain 1'01"60916 September OR
Men's individual pursuit Robert Bartko Germany 4'18"97216 September OR
Robert Bartko Germany 4'18"51516 SeptemberOR
Men's team pursuit Bryan Steel
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins
Chris Newton
Great Britain 4'04"03018 September OR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Germany 4'01"81018 SeptemberOR
Oleksandr Fedenko
Oleksandr Symonenko
Sergiy Matveyev
Sergiy Chernyavskyy
Ukraine 4'00"83019 September WR , OR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Germany 3'59"71019 SeptemberWR, OR
Women's 500 m time trial Felicia Ballanger France 34"14016 September OR
Women's individual pursuit Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands 3'31"57017 September OR
Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands 3'30"81617 September WR , OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources [3] [4]

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  4. "Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.