Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
The Laoshan Velodrome
Venues	Laoshan BMX Field Laoshan Mountain Bike Course Urban Road Cycling Course Laoshan Velodrome
Date	9 August – 23 August
Competitors	508 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 British team, who claimed 14 medals in total, including eight golds.^[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 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
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• Team sprint men
• Sprint men
• Keirin men
• 4000 m Team pursuit men
• 4000 m Individual pursuit men
• Madison 50 km men
• Points race 40 km men
• Sprint women
• 3000 m Individual pursuit women
• Points race 25 km women

Road cycling[]

• Road bicycle race men—239 km
• Road time trial men—46.8 km
• Road bicycle race women—120 km
• Road time trial women—31.2 km

Mountain bike[]

• Mountain bike men
• Mountain bike women

BMX[]

• BMX race men
• BMX race women

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	8	4	2	14
2	France (FRA)	2	3	1	6
3	Spain (ESP)	2	1	1	4
4	United States (USA)	1	1	3	5
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	2	4
6	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
7	Argentina (ARG)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
11	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	1	2
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
16	Russia (RUS)	0	0	3	3
17	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 nations)		18	18	18	54

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 Perez	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 Maximillian 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[]

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[]

See also[]

• Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

• Beijing 2008
• Union Cycliste Internationale
• Cycling BMX – Official Results Book
• Cycling Mountain Bike – Official Results Book
• Cycling Road – Official Results Book
• Cycling Track – Official Results Book