Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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

Medal table

Road cycling

Track cycling

Men

Women

* Participate in the preliminary round only.

Mountain biking

BMX

Broken records

Qualification

See also

• Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

References

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