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Template:Infobox Olympic Cycling 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

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Road cycling

Mountain bike

  • Mountain bike men
  • Mountain bike women

BMX

  • BMX race men
  • BMX race women

Medal summary

Medal table

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

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Qualification

See also

References

  1. ^ "How GB cycling went from tragic to magic". BBC. 2008-08-14. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  2. ^ "How Team GB's weekend of glory happened". Metro. 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
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