Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the Games of the V Olympiad |
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The White City Stadium during the 1908 Summer Olympics |
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Track cycling | White City Stadium | ||||||
Dates | 13 July – 18 July | ||||||
Cyclists | 97 from 11 countries | ||||||
Top ranked countries | |||||||
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5 | 3 | 1 | ||||
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1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, with rainfall causing the track to flood on occasion.[1] The track was 660 yards long (being built around the perimeter of the White City Stadium's athletics track); some events (the 660 yards and the team pursuit) used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.
Medal summary
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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660 yards |
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5000 metres |
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20 kilometres |
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100 kilometres |
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Sprint |
No medalists - race declared void as time limit was exceeded in final | ||
Tandem |
and Maurice Schilles (FRA) |
and Horace Johnson (GBR) |
and Walter Isaacs (GBR) |
Team pursuit |
Benjamin Jones Clarence Kingsbury Leonard Meredith Ernest Payne |
Max Götze Rudolf Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer |
William Anderson Walter Andrews Frederick McCarthy William Morton |
Participating nations
A total of 97 cyclists from 11 nations competed at the London Games:[2]
Belgium (6) Canada (5) France (23) Germany (9) Great Britain (36) Greece (1) Italy (4) Netherlands (5) South Africa (4) Sweden (2) United States (2)
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |
2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (5 nations) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
Notes
- ↑ Official Report, p. 113.
- ↑ "Cycling at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
References
- International Olympic Committee medal winners database
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