Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
London Velopark, 16 April 2012.jpg
The London Velopark in April 2012
Venues
BMX BMX track at the London Velopark
Mountain biking Hadleigh Farm
Road cycling Central London and Surrey
Track cycling Velodrome at the London Velopark
Dates 28 July – 12 August
Cyclists Total: 505
48 (BMX)
77 (mountain biking)
210 (road cycling)
176 (track cycling)
Top ranked countries
 Great Britain: 8 1st  2 2nd  2 3rd  
 Germany: 1 1st  4 2nd  1 3rd  
 France: 1 1st  3 2nd  0 3rd  
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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, similarly 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
Cycling (road) pictogram.svg
Road race   men   women
Time trial men women
Track cycling
Cycling (track) pictogram.svg
Sprint men women
Team sprint men women
Keirin men women
Team pursuit men women
Omnium men women
Mountain biking
Cycling (mountain biking) pictogram.svg
Cross-country men women
BMX
Cycling (BMX) pictogram.svg
BMX men women
 
Qualification

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Main article: Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Participating nations

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See also: List of cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Cyclists from 74 nations participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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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

Medalists

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Great Britain 8 2 2 12
2  Germany 1 4 1 6
3  France 1 3 0 4
4  Australia 1 2 3 6
5  United States 1 2 1 4
6  Colombia 1 1 1 3
7  Netherlands 1 0 2 3
8  Kazakhstan 1 0 0 1
 Denmark 1 0 0 1
 Latvia 1 0 0 1
 Czech Republic 1 0 0 1
12  China 0 2 1 3
13  New Zealand 0 1 2 3
14  Switzerland 0 1 0 1
15  Russia 0 0 2 2
16  Canada 0 0 1 1
 Hong Kong 0 0 1 1
 Norway 0 0 1 1
 Italy 0 0 1 1
Total 18 18 19 55

Road cycling

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

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Keirin
details		 Chris Hoy
 Great Britain		 Maximilian Levy
 Germany		 Simon van Velthooven
 New Zealand
Teun Mulder
 Netherlands
Women's Keirin
details		 Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain		 Guo Shuang
 China		 Lee Wai Sze
 Hong Kong
Men's Omnium
details		 Lasse Norman Hansen
 Denmark		 Bryan Coquard
 France		 Ed Clancy
 Great Britain
Women's Omnium
details		 Laura Trott
 Great Britain		 Sarah Hammer
 United States		 Annette Edmondson
 Australia
Men's 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
Women's team pursuit
details		  Great Britain (GBR)
Danielle King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell		  United States (USA)
Sarah Hammer
Dotsie Bausch
Jennie Reed
Lauren Tamayo		  Canada (CAN)
Tara Whitten
Gillian Carleton
Jasmin Glaesser
Men's individual sprint
details		 Jason Kenny
 Great Britain		 Grégory Baugé
 France		 Shane Perkins
 Australia
Women's individual sprint
details		 Anna Meares
 Australia		 Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain		 Guo Shuang
 China
Men's 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's team sprint
details		  Germany (GER)
Kristina Vogel
Miriam Welte		  China (CHN)
Gong Jinjie
Guo Shuang		  Australia (AUS)
Kaarle McCulloch
Anna Meares

Mountain biking

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

BMX

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

Broken records

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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 Danielle King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell		 Great Britain 3:15.669 3 August WR, OR
Danielle King
Laura Trott
Joanna Rowsell		 Great Britain 3:14.682 4 August WR, OR
Danielle 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

Gallery

Gallery of some of the Olympic gold medalists in the cycling competitions:

References

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