Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Appearance
Cycling at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | |
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Venues | Western Sydney Parklands Sydney and surrounding area Dunc Gray Velodrome |
Date | 16 -20 September 2000 |
Competitors | 462 from 55 nations |
Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking.[1]
Road cycling
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's road race |
Jan Ullrich Germany |
Alexander Vinokourov Kazakhstan |
Andreas Klöden Germany |
Men's time trial |
Viatcheslav Ekimov Russia |
Jan Ullrich Germany |
Vacated[2] |
Women's road race |
Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands |
Hanka Kupfernagel Germany |
Diana Žiliūtė Lithuania |
Women's time trial |
Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands |
Mari Holden United States |
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli France |
Track cycling
[edit]Men
[edit]Women
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Points race |
Antonella Bellutti Italy |
Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands |
Olga Slioussareva Russia |
Individual pursuit |
Leontien Zijlaard Netherlands |
Marion Clignet France |
Yvonne McGregor Great Britain |
Sprint |
Félicia Ballanger France |
Oksana Grishina Russia |
Iryna Yanovych Ukraine |
Time trial |
Félicia Ballanger France |
Michelle Ferris Australia |
Jiang Cuihua China |
Mountain biking
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's |
Miguel Martinez France |
Filip Meirhaeghe Belgium |
Christoph Sauser Switzerland |
Women's |
Paola Pezzo Italy |
Barbara Blatter Switzerland |
Margarita Fullana Spain |
Medal table
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | France (FRA) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
2 | Germany (GER) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
3 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
4 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
5 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Russia (RUS) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
8 | United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
9 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
10 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
13 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Uruguay (URU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
15 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (16 entries) | 18 | 18 | 17 | 53 |
Records broken
[edit]Event | Name | Nation | Score | Date | Record |
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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
References
[edit]- ^ "Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Union Cycliste Internationale - Men - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ "Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.