Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Summary

Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking.[1]

Cycling
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
The Dunc Gray Velodrome
VenuesWestern Sydney Parklands
Sydney and surrounding area
Dunc Gray Velodrome
Date16 -20 September 2000
Competitors462 from 55 nations
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Road cycling edit

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
details
Jan Ullrich
  Germany
Alexander Vinokourov
  Kazakhstan
Andreas Klöden
  Germany
Men's time trial
details
Viatcheslav Ekimov
  Russia
Jan Ullrich
  Germany
Vacated[2]
Women's road race
details
Leontien Zijlaard
  Netherlands
Hanka Kupfernagel
  Germany
Diana Žiliūtė
  Lithuania
Women's time trial
details
Leontien Zijlaard
  Netherlands
Mari Holden
  United States
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli
  France

Track cycling edit

Men edit

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
details
Florian Rousseau
  France
Gary Neiwand
  Australia
Jens Fiedler
  Germany
Madison
details
  Australia (AUS)
Brett Aitken
Scott McGrory
  Belgium (BEL)
Etienne De Wilde
Matthew Gilmore
  Italy (ITA)
Silvio Martinello
Marco Villa
Points race
details
Juan Llaneras
  Spain
Milton Wynants
  Uruguay
Alexey Markov
  Russia
Individual pursuit
details
Robert Bartko
  Germany
Jens Lehmann
  Germany
Bradley McGee
  Australia
Team pursuit
details
  Germany (GER)
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Olaf Pollack
  Ukraine (UKR)
Sergiy Chernyavsky
Sergiy Matveyev
Alexander Symonenko
Oleksandr Fedenko
  Great Britain (GBR)
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
Bradley Wiggins
Jon Clay
Rob Hayles
Individual sprint
details
Marty Nothstein
  United States
Florian Rousseau
  France
Jens Fiedler
  Germany
Team sprint
details
  France (FRA)
Florian Rousseau
Arnaud Tournant
Laurent Gané
  Great Britain (GBR)
Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
Jason Queally
  Australia (AUS)
Gary Neiwand
Sean Eadie
Darryn Hill
Time trial
details
Jason Queally
  Great Britain
Stefan Nimke
  Germany
Shane Kelly
  Australia

Women edit

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
details
Antonella Bellutti
  Italy
Leontien Zijlaard
  Netherlands
Olga Slioussareva
  Russia
Individual pursuit
details
Leontien Zijlaard
  Netherlands
Marion Clignet
  France
Yvonne McGregor
  Great Britain
Sprint
details
Félicia Ballanger
  France
Oksana Grishina
  Russia
Iryna Yanovych
  Ukraine
Time trial
details
Félicia Ballanger
  France
Michelle Ferris
  Australia
Jiang Cuihua
  China

Mountain biking edit

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details
Miguel Martinez
  France
Filip Meirhaeghe
  Belgium
Christoph Sauser
  Switzerland
Women's
details
Paola Pezzo
  Italy
Barbara Blatter
  Switzerland
Margarita Fullana
  Spain

Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  France (FRA)5218
2  Germany (GER)34310
3  Netherlands (NED)3104
4  Italy (ITA)2013
5  Australia (AUS)1236
6  Great Britain (GBR)1124
  Russia (RUS)1124
8  United States (USA)1102
9  Spain (ESP)1012
10  Belgium (BEL)0202
11  Switzerland (SUI)0112
  Ukraine (UKR)0112
13  Kazakhstan (KAZ)0101
  Uruguay (URU)0101
15  China (CHN)0011
  Lithuania (LTU)0011
Totals (16 entries)18181753

Records broken edit

Event Name Nation Score Date Record
Men's 1 km time trial Jason Queally Great Britain 1'01"609 16 September OR
Men's individual pursuit Robert Bartko Germany 4'18"972 16 September OR
Robert Bartko Germany 4'18"515 16 September OR
Men's team pursuit Bryan Steel
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins
Chris Newton
Great Britain 4'04"030 18 September OR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Germany 4'01"810 18 September OR
Oleksandr Fedenko
Oleksandr Symonenko
Sergiy Matveyev
Sergiy Chernyavskyy
Ukraine 4'00"830 19 September WR, OR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Germany 3'59"710 19 September WR, OR
Women's 500 m time trial Felicia Ballanger France 34"140 16 September OR
Women's individual pursuit Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands 3'31"570 17 September OR
Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands 3'30"816 17 September WR, OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources[3][4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. ^ On 17 January 2013, Lance Armstrong was stripped of the bronze medal and disqualified by the International Olympic Committee for an anti-doping rule violation. The IOC also decided to not award Spanish cyclist Abraham Olano the medal, as he had also tested positive for doping, back in 1998.
  3. ^ "Union Cycliste Internationale - Men - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.

External links edit

  • Official Olympic Report