Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 12 hour race
Men's 12 hour race at the Games of the I Olympiad | |||||||
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Venue | Neo Phaliron Velodrome | ||||||
Date | April 13 | ||||||
Competitors | 7 from 4 nations | ||||||
Medalists | |||||||
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Road cycling![]() | |
Road race | men |
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Time trial | men |
Sprint | men |
10 km | men |
100 km | men |
12 hour | men |
The men's 12 hour race was one of five track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. It was the final event of the 1896 Summer Olympics, ending at 5 p.m. on 13 April.
Results
The final cycling race began at 5 a.m. on 13 April. Seven athletes began the race, though four of them dropped out before noon and a fifth gave up in the afternoon. Schmal had lapped the rest of the cyclists early in the race and rode along with Keeping for the rest of the contest, winning by that one lap. The 12 hour race was never included again in the cycling program at the Olympic Games.[1]
Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Distance |
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Adolf Schmal | ![]() |
314.997 km |
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Frederick Keeping | ![]() |
314.664 km |
– | Georgios Paraskevopoulos | ![]() |
DNF |
– | Nikos Loverdos | ![]() |
DNF (3 hours) |
– | A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris | ![]() |
DNF (3 hours) |
– | Joseph Welzenbacher | ![]() |
DNF (3 hours) |
– | Konstantinos Konstantinou | ![]() |
DNF (3 hours) |
References
- Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at )
- Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at )
- Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.
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