Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Pictograms for, from top, BMX, mountain, road, and track cycling.
VenueLondon Velopark (BMX, track)
Hadleigh Farm (mountain)
Central London, Surrey (road)
Dates28 July – 12 August 2012
CompetitorsTotal: 505
48 (BMX)
77 (mountain biking)
210 (road cycling)
176 (track cycling)
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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,[1] and Hadleigh Farm, in Essex, for mountain biking.[2] The road races took place over a course starting and ending in The Mall in central London[3] 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.

Cycling events have been contested in every Summer Olympics programme since the first modern Olympiad in 1896 alongside athletics, artistic gymnastics, fencing and swimming. Compared to the cycling at the 2008 Olympics, there were many changes in the Olympic track cycling programme. The men's and women's individual pursuit and points race, and the men's Madison were removed. Team sprint, team pursuit and keirin were added to the women's programme, while Omnium was a new race for both men and women.[4] Countries were restricted to one entry per track event, a restriction which seemed to be directed at preventing the British team from double-medalling in the same event as they had in four events in 2008,[5][6][7] thus lowering their medal chances. However, similar to the 2008 Beijing Games, the cycling events were dominated by the British team, which, with a haul including eight gold medals, was the only one to win more than a single gold medal.

Venues[]

The road racing at the Olympics and Paralympic Games was originally scheduled to take place in Regent's Park and on Hampstead Heath. Instead, the Olympic road races started and finished on The Mall in central London and headed out in a south-westerly direction to include loops around Box Hill in Surrey.[8] Road racing in the Paralympics took place at Brands Hatch.[9] The Olympic mountain bike event took place at Hadleigh Farm after the UCI labeled the course at Weald Country Park[10] "too easy" in July 2008.[11] It was touted that the course could be created in Wales.[12] A location in Kent was also considered.[13]

Qualification[]

Cycling at the
2012 Summer Olympics
List of cyclists
Road cycling
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Road racemenwomen
Time trialmenwomen
Track cycling
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Sprintmenwomen
Team sprintmenwomen
Keirinmenwomen
Team pursuitmenwomen
Omniummenwomen
Mountain biking
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Cross-countrymenwomen
BMX
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Qualification
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Main article: Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Participating nations[]

See also: List of cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Cyclists from 74 nations participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Competition schedule[]

H Heats/preliminaries ¼ Quarterfinals ½ Semifinals F Final
BMX, mountain biking and road cycling[14][15][16]
Event↓/Date → Sat 28 Sun 29 Wed 1 Wed 8 Thu 9 Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12
Men's BMX H ¼ ½ F
Women's BMX H ½ F
Mountain biking
Men's cross-country F
Women's cross-country F
Road cycling
Men's road race F
Men's time trial F
Women's road race F
Women's time trial F
Track cycling[17]
Date → Thu 2 Fri 3 Sat 4 Sun 5 Mon 6 Tue 7
Event ↓ A A M A M A A M A
Men's Keirin H ½ F
Men's Omnium FL PR ER IP SR TT
Men's sprint H ¼ ½ F
Men's team pursuit H ½ F
Men's team sprint H ½ F
Women's Keirin H F
Women's Omnium FL PR ER IP SR TT
Women's sprint H ¼ ½ F
Women's team pursuit H ½ F
Women's team sprint H ½ F
M = Morning session, A = Afternoon session
FL = Flying Lap, PR = Points Race, ER = Elimination Race, IP = Individual Pursuit, SR = Scratch Race, TT = Time Trial

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain82212
2 Germany1416
3 France1304
4 Australia1236
5 United States1214
6 Colombia1113
7 Netherlands1023
8 Czech Republic1001
 Denmark1001
 Kazakhstan1001
 Latvia1001
12 China0213
13 New Zealand0123
14 Switzerland0101
15 Russia0022
16 Canada0011
 Hong Kong0011
 Italy0011
 Norway0011
Totals (19 nations)18181955

Road cycling[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
details 		Alexander Vinokourov
 Kazakhstan 		Rigoberto Urán
 Colombia 		Alexander Kristoff
 Norway
Men's time trial
details 		Bradley Wiggins
 Great Britain 		Tony Martin
 Germany 		Chris Froome
 Great Britain
Women's road race
details 		Marianne Vos
 Netherlands 		Lizzie Armitstead
 Great Britain 		Olga Zabelinskaya
 Russia
Women's time trial
details 		Kristin Armstrong
 United States 		Judith Arndt
 Germany 		Olga Zabelinskaya
 Russia

Track cycling[]

Men[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
details 		Chris Hoy
 Great Britain 		Maximilian Levy
 Germany 		Simon van Velthooven
 New Zealand
Teun Mulder
 Netherlands
Omnium
details 		Lasse Norman Hansen
 Denmark 		Bryan Coquard
 France 		Ed Clancy
 Great Britain
team pursuit
details 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Ed Clancy
Geraint Thomas
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh
  		 Australia (AUS)
Jack Bobridge
Glenn O'Shea
Rohan Dennis
Michael Hepburn
  		 New Zealand (NZL)
Sam Bewley
Aaron Gate
Marc Ryan
Jesse Sergent
Westley Gough
sprint
details 		Jason Kenny
 Great Britain 		Grégory Baugé
 France 		Shane Perkins
 Australia
team sprint
details 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Philip Hindes
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny 		 France (FRA)
Grégory Baugé
Michaël D'Almeida
Kévin Sireau 		 Germany (GER)
René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Robert Förstemann

Women[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
details 		Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain 		Guo Shuang
 China 		Lee Wai Sze
 Hong Kong
Omnium
details 		Laura Trott
 Great Britain 		Sarah Hammer
 United States 		Annette Edmondson
 Australia
team pursuit
details 		 Great Britain (GBR)
Dani King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell
  		 United States (USA)
Sarah Hammer
Dotsie Bausch
Jennie Reed
Lauren Tamayo 		 Canada (CAN)
Tara Whitten
Gillian Carleton
Jasmin Glaesser
 
sprint
details 		Anna Meares
 Australia 		Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain 		Guo Shuang
 China
team sprint
details 		 Germany (GER)
Kristina Vogel
Miriam Welte 		 China (CHN)
Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang 		 Australia (AUS)
Kaarle McCulloch
Anna Meares

Mountain biking[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details 		Jaroslav Kulhavý
 Czech Republic 		Nino Schurter
 Switzerland 		Marco Aurelio Fontana
 Italy
Women's
details 		Julie Bresset
 France 		Sabine Spitz
 Germany 		Georgia Gould
 United States

BMX[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details 		Māris Štrombergs
 Latvia 		Sam Willoughby
 Australia 		Carlos Oquendo
 Colombia
Women's
details 		Mariana Pajón
 Colombia 		Sarah Walker
 New Zealand 		Laura Smulders
 Netherlands

Broken records[]

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2012 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling
Event Name Nation Score Date Record
Women's team sprint Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang		 China 32.447 s 2 August WR, OR
Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang		 China 32.422 s 2 August WR, OR
Men's team sprint Philip Hindes
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny		 Great Britain 42.747 s 2 August WR, OR
Philip Hindes
Chris Hoy
Jason Kenny		 Great Britain 42.600 s 2 August WR, OR
Men's team pursuit Ed Clancy
Geraint Thomas
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh		 Great Britain 3:52.499 2 August WR, OR
Ed Clancy
Geraint Thomas
Steven Burke
Peter Kennaugh		 Great Britain 3:51.659 3 August WR, OR
Women's team pursuit Dani King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell		 Great Britain 3:15.669 3 August WR, OR
Dani King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell		 Great Britain 3:14.682 4 August WR, OR
Dani King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell		 Great Britain 3:14.051 4 August WR, OR
Men's sprint Jason Kenny Great Britain 9.713 s 4 August OR
Women's sprint Victoria Pendleton Great Britain 10.724 s 5 August OR

References[]

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