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Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| event | Cycling |
| games | 2008 Summer |
| image_size | 150px |
| 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 |
Laoshan Mountain Bike Course Urban Road Cycling Course Laoshan Velodrome 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 |access-date=2009-05-07 |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
Road cycling
| Women's time trial | ||
|---|---|---|
| Kristin Armstrong | Emma Pooley | Karin Thürig |
Track cycling
Men
| Team sprint | |
|---|---|
| GBR | |
| Jamie Staff | |
| Jason Kenny | |
| Chris Hoy | FRA |
| Grégory Baugé | |
| Kévin Sireau | |
| Arnaud Tournant | GER |
| René Enders | |
| Maximilian Levy | |
| Stefan Nimke |
Women
| Sprint | ||
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Pendleton | Anna Meares | Guo Shuang |
- Participate in the preliminary round only.
Mountain biking
| Women's | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sabine Spitz | Maja Włoszczowska | Irina Kalentieva |
BMX
| Women's | ||
|---|---|---|
| Anne-Caroline Chausson | Laëtitia Le Corguillé | Jill Kintner |
Broken records
| Event | Time | Name | Nation | Date | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Sprint | 9.815 | Chris Hoy | GBR | 2008-08-17 | OR |
| Men's Individual pursuit | 4:15.031 | Bradley Wiggins | GBR | 2008-08-15 | OR |
| Men's Team pursuit | 3:53.314 | Bradley Wiggins | |||
| Paul Manning | |||||
| Geraint Thomas | |||||
| Ed Clancy | GBR | 2008-08-18 | OR | ||
| Women's Sprint | 10.963 | Victoria Pendleton | GBR | 2008-08-17 | OR |
Qualification
Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification
References
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