Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, flooding the track on occasion. The track was 660 yards long (being built around the perimeter of the White City Stadium's athletics track); some events (the 660 yards and the team pursuit) used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards		men
5000 metres		men
20 kilometres		men
100 kilometres		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
660 yards	Victor Johnson Great Britain (GBR)	Émile Demangel France (FRA)	Karl Neumer Germany (GER)
5000 metres	Benjamin Jones Great Britain (GBR)	Maurice Schilles France (FRA)	André Auffray France (FRA)
20 kilometres	Clarence Kingsbury Great Britain (GBR)	Benjamin Jones Great Britain (GBR)	Joseph Werbrouck Belgium (BEL)
100 kilometres	Charles Bartlett Great Britain (GBR)	Charles Denny Great Britain (GBR)	Octave Lapize France (FRA)
Sprint	No medalists - race declared void as time limit was exceeded in final
Tandem	France (FRA) André Auffray Maurice Schilles	Great Britain (GBR) Frederick Hamlin Horace Johnson	Great Britain (GBR) Charles Brooks Walter Isaacs
Team pursuit	Great Britain (GBR) Benjamin Jones Clarence Kingsbury Leonard Meredith Ernest Payne	Germany (GER) Max Götze Rudolf Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer	Canada (CAN) William Anderson Walter Andrews Frederick McCarthy William Morton

Participating nations

A total of 97 cyclists from 11 nations competed at the London Games:

• Belgium (6)
• Canada (5)
• France (23)
• Germany (9)
• Great Britain (36)
• Greece (1)
• Italy (4)
• Netherlands (5)
• South Africa (4)
• Sweden (2)
• United States (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	5	3	1	9
2	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
3	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
4	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1

References

• International Olympic Committee medal winners database