Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Template:Infobox Olympic event 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.

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

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Men's time trial Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Women's road race Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Women's time trial Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist

Track cycling

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Keirin Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Madison Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Juan Esteban Curuchet Walter Fernando Pérez	Template:FlagIOCteam Joan Llaneras Antonio Tauler	Template:FlagIOCteam Mikhail Ignatiev Alexei Markov
Points race Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Individual pursuit Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Team pursuit Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Ed Clancy Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Bradley Wiggins	Template:FlagIOCteam Alex Nicki Rasmussen Michael Moerkoev Casper Jørgensen Jens-Erik Madsen Michael Færk Christensen*	Template:FlagIOCteam Sam Bewley Jesse Sergent Hayden Roulston Marc Ryan Westley Gough*
Individual sprint Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Team sprint Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Jamie Staff Jason Kenny Chris Hoy	Template:FlagIOCteam Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Arnaud Tournant	Template:FlagIOCteam René Enders Maximilian Levy Stefan Nimke

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Points race Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Pursuit Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Sprint Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist

* Participate in the preliminary round only.

Mountain biking

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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Women's Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist

BMX

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Women's Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist

Broken records

Event	Time	Name	Nation	Date	Record
Men's Sprint	9.815	Chris Hoy	Template:FlagIOCteam	2008-08-17	OR
Men's Individual pursuit	4:15.031	Bradley Wiggins	Template:FlagIOCteam	2008-08-15	OR
Men's Team pursuit	3:53.314	Bradley Wiggins Paul Manning Geraint Thomas Ed Clancy	Template:FlagIOCteam	2008-08-18	OR
Women's Sprint	10.963	Victoria Pendleton	Template:FlagIOCteam	2008-08-17	OR

See also

• Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

External links

• Beijing 2008
• Union Cycliste Internationale
• Cycling BMX – Official Results Book
• Cycling Mountain Bike – Official Results Book
• Cycling Road – Official Results Book
• Cycling Track – Official Results Book