Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
The Laoshan Velodrome
VenuesLaoshan BMX Field
Laoshan Mountain Bike Course
Urban Road Cycling Course
Laoshan Velodrome
Date9 August – 23 August 2008
Competitors508 from 66 nations
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Cycling competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 9 to August 23 at the Laoshan Velodrome (track events), Laoshan Mountain Bike Course, Laoshan BMX Field and the Beijing Cycling Road Course.

The event was dominated by the Great Britain team, who claimed 14 medals in total, including eight golds, seven of them from the ten events in the velodrome. This marked the beginning of a period of complete domination for Great Britain that would last to the 2020 Summer Olympics; The British team would claim 21 of the 30 gold medals awarded in the velodrome over the next three Games, 70% of all gold medals on offer.[1][2]

Events

Eighteen sets of medals were awarded in four disciplines: track cycling, road cycling, mountain bike, and, new for 2008, BMX. The following events were contested:

Track cycling

Cycling at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road racemenwomen
Time trialmenwomen
Track cycling
Individual pursuitmenwomen
Team pursuitmen
Sprintmenwomen
Team sprintmen
Points racemenwomen
Keirinmen
Madisonmen
Mountain biking
Cross-countrymenwomen
BMX
BMXmenwomen

Road cycling

Mountain bike

  • Mountain bike men
  • Mountain bike women

BMX

  • BMX race men
  • BMX race women

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain (GBR)84214
2 France (FRA)2316
3 Spain (ESP)2114
4 United States (USA)1135
5 Switzerland (SUI)1124
6 Germany (GER)1113
7 Argentina (ARG)1001
 Latvia (LAT)1001
 Netherlands (NED)1001
10 Sweden (SWE)0202
11 New Zealand (NZL)0112
12 Australia (AUS)0101
 Cuba (CUB)0101
 Denmark (DEN)0101
 Poland (POL)0101
16 Russia (RUS)0033
17 China (CHN)0011
 Italy (ITA)0011
 Japan (JPN)0011
 Ukraine (UKR)0011
Totals (20 entries)18181854

Road cycling

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
details 		Samuel Sánchez
 Spain 		Fabian Cancellara
 Switzerland 		Alexandr Kolobnev
 Russia
Men's time trial
details 		Fabian Cancellara
 Switzerland 		Gustav Larsson
 Sweden 		Levi Leipheimer
 United States
Women's road race
details 		Nicole Cooke
 Great Britain 		Emma Johansson
 Sweden 		Tatiana Guderzo
 Italy
Women's time trial
details 		Kristin Armstrong
 United States 		Emma Pooley
 Great Britain 		Karin Thürig
 Switzerland

Track cycling

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
details 		Chris Hoy
 Great Britain 		Ross Edgar
 Great Britain 		Kiyofumi Nagai
 Japan
Madison
details 		 Argentina (ARG)
Juan Esteban Curuchet
Walter Fernando Pérez 		 Spain (ESP)
Joan Llaneras
Antonio Tauler 		 Russia (RUS)
Mikhail Ignatiev
Alexei Markov
points race
details 		Joan Llaneras
 Spain 		Roger Kluge
 Germany 		Chris Newton
 Great Britain
individual pursuit
details 		Bradley Wiggins
 Great Britain 		Hayden Roulston
 New Zealand 		Steven Burke
 Great Britain
team pursuit
details 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Ed Clancy
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Bradley Wiggins 		 Denmark (DEN)
Alex Nicki Rasmussen
Michael Moerkoev
Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Færk Christensen* 		 New Zealand (NZL)
Sam Bewley
Jesse Sergent
Hayden Roulston
Marc Ryan
Westley Gough*
individual sprint
details 		Chris Hoy
 Great Britain 		Jason Kenny
 Great Britain 		Mickaël Bourgain
 France
team sprint
details 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Jamie Staff
Jason Kenny
Chris Hoy 		 France (FRA)
Grégory Baugé
Kévin Sireau
Arnaud Tournant 		 Germany (GER)
René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Stefan Nimke

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
points race
details 		Marianne Vos
 Netherlands 		Yoanka González
 Cuba 		Leire Olaberría
 Spain
pursuit
details 		Rebecca Romero
 Great Britain 		Wendy Houvenaghel
 Great Britain 		Lesya Kalytovska
 Ukraine
sprint
details 		Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain 		Anna Meares
 Australia 		Guo Shuang
 China

* Participate in the preliminary round only.

Mountain biking

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details 		Julien Absalon
 France 		Jean-Christophe Péraud
 France 		Nino Schurter
 Switzerland
Women's
details 		Sabine Spitz
 Germany 		Maja Włoszczowska
 Poland 		Irina Kalentieva
 Russia

BMX

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details 		Māris Štrombergs
 Latvia 		Mike Day
 United States 		Donny Robinson
 United States
Women's
details 		Anne-Caroline Chausson
 France 		Laëtitia Le Corguillé
 France 		Jill Kintner
 United States

Broken records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Event Time Name Nation Date Record
Men's Sprint 9.815  Chris Hoy  Great Britain (GBR) 2008-08-17 OR
Men's Individual pursuit  4:15.031  Bradley Wiggins  Great Britain (GBR) 2008-08-15 OR
Men's Team pursuit 3:53.314  Bradley Wiggins
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Ed Clancy 		 Great Britain (GBR) 2008-08-18 OR
Women's Sprint 10.963  Victoria Pendleton  Great Britain (GBR) 2008-08-17 OR

Qualification

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

See also

References

  1. ^ "How GB cycling went from tragic to magic". BBC. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  2. ^ "How Team GB's weekend of glory happened". Metro. 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
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