Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 kilometres

Men's 100 kilometres at the Games of the IV Olympiad
The final lap
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 15–18
Competitors	45 from 11 nations
Medalists
Charles Bartlett  Great Britain Charles Denny  Great Britain Octave Lapize  France

The men's 100 kilometres was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the longest of the individual event distances. A challenge cup was presented by the Prince of Wales to the winner. Each nation could enter up to 12 cyclists.

Competition format

The 100 kilometres race was conducted in two rounds, semifinals and a final. Each race was approximately 165.7 laps of the 660 yard track. The time limit for the race was 3 hours and 15 minutes. There were two semifinals. The first 6 cyclists to finish, and the 2 cyclists who led for the most laps, in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	2:50:21.4	Q
2	G. C. Lutz	France	Unknown	Q
3	Sydney Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown	Q
4	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown	Q
5	J. H. Bishop	Great Britain	Unknown	Q
6	D. C. Robertson	Great Britain	Unknown	Q
7–14	William Anderson	Canada	Unknown
	Alwin Boldt	Germany	Unknown
	François Bonnet	France	Unknown	q
	Georgius Damen	Netherlands	Unknown
	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown
	André Lepère	France	Unknown
	Harry Mussen	Great Britain	Unknown	q
	J. Norman	Great Britain	Unknown
—	Rudolf Katzer	Germany	DNF
	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	DNF
	Ioannis Santorinaios	Greece	DNF

Semifinal 2

It is not clear how Young advanced to the final; the Official Report says in the results of this heat that Coeckelberg and Denny qualified as having led the most laps, and in the description of the final field says that Young was "permitted to start, having satisfied the judges that he was not lapped in Heat 2."

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Leon Meredith	Great Britain	2:43:15.4	Q
2	Charles Bartlett	Great Britain	Unknown	Q
3	Gustaf Westerberg	Sweden	Unknown	Q
4	Octave Lapize	France	Unknown	Q
5	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown	Q
6	William Pett	Great Britain	Unknown	Q
7–9	Guillaume Coeckelberg	Belgium	Unknown	q
	Charles Denny	Great Britain	Unknown	q
	Harry Young	Canada	Unknown	q
—	Cesare Zanzottera	Italy	DNF
	Charles Avrillon	France	DNF
	H. Cunault	France	DNF
	Bruno Götze	Germany	DNF
	Pierre Hostein	France	DNF
	Robert Jolly	Great Britain	DNF
	Jean Madelaine	France	DNF
	Guglielmo Malatesta	Italy	DNF
	Hermann Martens	Germany	DNF
	William Morton	Canada	DNF
	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands	DNF
	David Noon	Great Britain	DNF
	Battista Parini	Italy	DNF
	T. H. E. Passmore	South Africa	DNF
	Paul Schulze	Germany	DNF
	Max Triebsch	Germany	DNF
	Louis Weintz	United States	DNF

Final

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Time
	Charles Bartlett	Great Britain	2:41:48.6
	Charles Denny	Great Britain	Unknown
	Octave Lapize	France	Unknown
4	William Pett	Great Britain	Unknown
5	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown
6	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown
7	D. C. Robertson	Great Britain	Unknown
8	Sydney Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown
—	J. H. Bishop	Great Britain	DNF
	François Bonnet	France	DNF
	Guillaume Coeckelberg	Belgium	DNF
	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	DNF
	G. C. Lutz	France	DNF
	Leon Meredith	Great Britain	DNF
	Harry Mussen	Great Britain	DNF
	Gustaf Westerberg	Sweden	DNF
	Harry Young	Canada	DNF

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at [1].