Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
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The Laoshan Velodrome
Venues
BMX Laoshan BMX Field
Mountain biking Laoshan Mountain Bike Course
Road cycling Urban Road Cycling Course
Track cycling Laoshan Velodrome
Dates 9 August – 23 August
Cyclists 508 from 66 countries
Top ranked countries
 Great Britain: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 France: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Spain: 1st  2nd  3rd  
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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
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Road race   men   women
Time trial men women
Track cycling
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Individual pursuit men women
Team pursuit men
Sprint men women
Team sprint men
Points race men women
Keirin men
Madison men
Mountain biking
Cycling (mountain biking) pictogram.svg
Cross-country men women
BMX
Cycling (BMX) pictogram.svg
BMX men women

Road cycling

Mountain bike

  • Mountain bike men
  • Mountain bike women

BMX

  • BMX race men
  • BMX race women

Medal summary

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
8  Latvia (LAT) 1 0 0 1
9  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
13  Cuba (CUB) 0 1 0 1
14  Denmark (DEN) 0 1 0 1
15  Poland (POL) 0 1 0 1
16  Russia (RUS) 0 0 3 3
17  China (CHN) 0 0 1 1
18  Italy (ITA) 0 0 1 1
19  Japan (JPN) 0 0 1 1
20  Ukraine (UKR) 0 0 1 1
Total 18 18 18 54

Road cycling

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

Track cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Keirin
details
Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
Ross Edgar
 Great Britain
Kiyofumi Nagai
 Japan
Men's Madison
details
 Argentina (ARG)
Juan Esteban Curuchet
Walter Fernando Perez
 Spain (ESP)
Joan Llaneras
Antonio Tauler
 Russia (RUS)
Mikhail Ignatiev
Alexei Markov
Men's points race
details
Joan Llaneras
 Spain
Roger Kluge
 Germany
Chris Newton
 Great Britain
Women's points race
details
Marianne Vos
 Netherlands
Yoanka González
 Cuba
Leire Olaberría
 Spain
Men's individual pursuit
details
Bradley Wiggins
 Great Britain
Hayden Roulston
 New Zealand
Steven Burke
 Great Britain
Women's individual pursuit
details
Rebecca Romero
 Great Britain
Wendy Houvenaghel
 Great Britain
Lesya Kalytovska
 Ukraine
Men's 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*
Men's individual sprint
details
Chris Hoy
 Great Britain
Jason Kenny
 Great Britain
Mickaël Bourgain
 France
Women's individual sprint
details
Victoria Pendleton
 Great Britain
Anna Meares
 Australia
Guo Shuang
 China
Men's 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

* Participate in the preliminary round only.

Mountain biking

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

BMX

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

Broken records

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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 3:53.312  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

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See also

References

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