Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics#Track cycling

{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Cycling

| games = 2008 Summer

| image = 2008 Laoshan Velodrome.JPG

| image_size = 300px

| caption = The Laoshan Velodrome

| venues = Laoshan BMX Field
Laoshan Mountain Bike Course
Urban Road Cycling Course
Laoshan Velodrome

| date = 9 August – 23 August 2008

| competitors = 508

| nations = 66

| prev = 2004

| next = 2012

}}

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 Great Britain team, who claimed 14 medals in total, including eight golds, seven of them from the ten events in the velodrome. This marked the beginning of a period of complete domination for Great Britain that would last to the 2020 Summer Olympics; The British team would claim 21 of the 30 gold medals awarded in the velodrome over the next three Games, 70% of all gold medals on offer.{{cite web

|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/cycling/7534073.stm |title=How GB cycling went from tragic to magic

|date=2008-08-14

|publisher=BBC

|access-date=2009-05-07

}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/olympics/article.html?in_article_id=268147&in_page_id=310

|title=How Team GB's weekend of glory happened

|date=2009-08-17

|publisher=Metro

|access-date=2009-05-07

}}

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=

Team sprint men
Sprint men
Keirin men
4000 m Team pursuit men
4000 m Individual pursuit men
Madison 50 km men
Points race 40 km men
Sprint women
3000 m Individual pursuit women
Points race 25 km women

=Road cycling=

Road bicycle race men—239 km
Road time trial men—46.8 km
Road bicycle race women—120 km
Road time trial women—31.2 km

=Mountain bike=

Mountain bike men
Mountain bike women

=BMX=

BMX race men
BMX race women

Medal table

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = flagIOCteam

| event = 2008 Summer

| team =

| gold_GBR = 8 | silver_GBR = 4 | bronze_GBR = 2

| gold_FRA = 2 | silver_FRA = 3 | bronze_FRA = 1

| gold_ESP = 2 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 1

| gold_USA = 1 | silver_USA = 1 | bronze_USA = 3

| gold_SUI = 1 | silver_SUI = 1 | bronze_SUI = 2

| gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 1 | bronze_GER = 1

| gold_ARG = 1 | silver_ARG = 0 | bronze_ARG = 0

| gold_LAT = 1 | silver_LAT = 0 | bronze_LAT = 0

| gold_NED = 1 | silver_NED = 0 | bronze_NED = 0

| gold_SWE = 0 | silver_SWE = 2 | bronze_SWE = 0

| gold_NZL = 0 | silver_NZL = 1 | bronze_NZL = 1

| gold_AUS = 0 | silver_AUS = 1 | bronze_AUS = 0

| gold_CUB = 0 | silver_CUB = 1 | bronze_CUB = 0

| gold_DEN = 0 | silver_DEN = 1 | bronze_DEN = 0

| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 0

| gold_RUS = 0 | silver_RUS = 0 | bronze_RUS = 3

| gold_CHN = 0 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 1

| gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 1

| gold_JPN = 0 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 1

| gold_UKR = 0 | silver_UKR = 0 | bronze_UKR = 1

}}

Road cycling

Men's road race
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Samuel Sánchez|ESP|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Fabian Cancellara|SUI|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Alexandr Kolobnev|RUS|2008 Summer}}

Men's time trial
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Fabian Cancellara|SUI|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gustav Larsson|SWE|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Levi Leipheimer|USA|2008 Summer}}

Women's road race
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Nicole Cooke|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Emma Johansson|SWE|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Tatiana Guderzo|ITA|2008 Summer}}

Women's time trial
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's road time trial}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Kristin Armstrong|USA|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Emma Pooley|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Karin Thürig|SUI|2008 Summer}}

Track cycling

===Men===

Keirin
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's keirin}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Chris Hoy|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Ross Edgar|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Kiyofumi Nagai|JPN|2008 Summer}}

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| Madison
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Madison}}

|{{flagIOCteam|ARG|2008 Summer}}
Juan Esteban Curuchet
Walter Fernando Pérez

|{{flagIOCteam|ESP|2008 Summer}}
Joan Llaneras
Antonio Tauler

|{{flagIOCteam|RUS|2008 Summer}}
Mikhail Ignatiev
Alexei Markov

points race
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's points race}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Joan Llaneras|ESP|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Roger Kluge|GER|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Chris Newton|GBR|2008 Summer}}

individual pursuit
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Bradley Wiggins|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Hayden Roulston|NZL|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Steven Burke|GBR|2008 Summer}}

valign="top"

| team pursuit
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit}}

|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|2008 Summer}}
Ed Clancy
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Bradley Wiggins

|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|DEN|2008 Summer}}
Alex Nicki Rasmussen
Michael Moerkoev
Casper Jørgensen
Jens-Erik Madsen
Michael Færk Christensen*

|valign=top|{{flagIOCteam|NZL|2008 Summer}}
Sam Bewley
Jesse Sergent
Hayden Roulston
Marc Ryan
Westley Gough*

individual sprint
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Chris Hoy|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Jason Kenny|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Mickaël Bourgain|FRA|2008 Summer}}

valign="top"

| team sprint
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team sprint}}

|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|2008 Summer}}
Jamie Staff
Jason Kenny
Chris Hoy

|{{flagIOCteam|FRA|2008 Summer}}
Grégory Baugé
Kévin Sireau
Arnaud Tournant

|{{flagIOCteam|GER|2008 Summer}}
René Enders
Maximilian Levy
Stefan Nimke

=Women=

points race
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's points race}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Marianne Vos|NED|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Yoanka González|CUB|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Leire Olaberría|ESP|2008 Summer}}

pursuit
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's individual pursuit}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Rebecca Romero|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Wendy Houvenaghel|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Lesya Kalytovska|UKR|2008 Summer}}

sprint
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's sprint}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Victoria Pendleton|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Anna Meares|AUS|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Guo Shuang|CHN|2008 Summer}}

* Participate in the preliminary round only.

Mountain biking

Men's
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's cross-country}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Julien Absalon|FRA|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Jean-Christophe Péraud|FRA|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Nino Schurter|SUI|2008 Summer}}

Women's
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's cross-country}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Sabine Spitz|GER|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Maja Włoszczowska|POL|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Irina Kalentieva|RUS|2008 Summer}}

==BMX==

Men's
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's BMX}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Māris Štrombergs|LAT|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Mike Day|USA|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Donny Robinson|USA|2008 Summer}}

Women's
{{DetailsLink|Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Anne-Caroline Chausson|FRA|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Laëtitia Le Corguillé|FRA|2008 Summer}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Jill Kintner|USA|2008 Summer}}

Broken records

{{see also|World and Olympic records set at the 2008 Summer Olympics}}

class="wikitable"

!Event

!Time

!Name

!Nation

!Date

!Record

Men's Sprint

|align=right|9.815

|Chris Hoy

|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|2008-08-17

Men's Individual pursuit

|align=right| 4:15.031

|Bradley Wiggins

|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|2008-08-15

Men's Team pursuit

|align=right|3:53.314

|Bradley Wiggins
Paul Manning
Geraint Thomas
Ed Clancy

|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|2008-08-18

Women's Sprint

|align=right|10.963

|Victoria Pendleton

|{{flagIOCteam|GBR|2008 Summer}}

|2008-08-17

Qualification

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060331010211/http://www.beijing2008.com/ Beijing 2008]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081112165745/http://www.uci.ch/templates/UCI/UCI5/layout.asp?MenuId=MjI1MA Union Cycliste Internationale]
[https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/64914/download Cycling BMX – Official Results Book]
[https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/65366/download Cycling Mountain Bike – Official Results Book]
[https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/65340/download Cycling Road – Official Results Book]
[https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll8/id/65441/download Cycling Track – Official Results Book]