Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 12 hour race

Men's 12 hour race at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Neo Phaliron Velodrome
Date	April 13
Competitors	7 from 4 nations
Medalists
Adolf Schmal  Austria Frederick Keeping  Great Britain

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race	men
Track cycling
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
	Adolf Schmal	Austria	314.997 km
	Frederick Keeping	Great Britain	314.664 km
–	Georgios Paraskevopoulos	Greece	DNF
–	Nikos Loverdos	Greece	DNF (3 hours)
–	A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris	Greece	DNF (3 hours)
–	Joseph Welzenbacher	Germany	DNF (3 hours)
–	Konstantinos Konstantinou	Greece	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.