Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 kilometres

Men's 100 kilometres
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
The final lap
Venue White City Stadium
Dates July 15–18
Competitors 45 from 11 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Charles Bartlett  Great Britain
2nd, silver medalist(s) Charles Denny  Great Britain
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Octave Lapize  France

The men's 100 kilometres was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the longest of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 3 hours and 15 minutes. A challenge cup was presented by the Prince of Wales to the winner.

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

PlaceCyclistNationTime
1Andrew Hansson Sweden2:50:21.4
2G. C. Lutz FranceUnknown
3Sydney Bailey Great BritainUnknown
4Pierre Texier FranceUnknown
5J. H. Bishop Great BritainUnknown
6D. C. Robertson Great BritainUnknown
7-14William Anderson CanadaUnknown
Alwin Boldt GermanyUnknown
François Bonnet FranceUnknown
Georgius Damen NetherlandsUnknown
Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein NetherlandsUnknown
André Lepère FranceUnknown
Harry Mussen Great BritainUnknown
J. Norman Great BritainUnknown
Rudolf Katzer GermanyDid not finish
Frederick McCarthy CanadaDid not finish
Ioannis Santorinaios GreeceDid not finish

Semifinal 2

PlaceCyclistNationTime
1Leon Meredith Great Britain2:43:15.4
2Charles Bartlett Great BritainUnknown
3Gustaf Westerberg SwedenUnknown
4Octave Lapize FranceUnknown
5Walter Andrews CanadaUnknown
6William Pett Great BritainUnknown
7-9Guillaume Coeckelberg BelgiumUnknown
Charles Denny Great BritainUnknown
Harry Young CanadaUnknown
Cesare Zanzottera ItalyDid not finish
Charles Avrillon FranceDid not finish
H. Cunault FranceDid not finish
Bruno Götze GermanyDid not finish
Pierre Hostein FranceDid not finish
Robert Jolly Great BritainDid not finish
Jean Madelaine FranceDid not finish
Guglielmo Malatesta ItalyDid not finish
Hermann Martens GermanyDid not finish
William Morton CanadaDid not finish
Dorus Nijland Netherlands[1]Did not finish
David Noon Great BritainDid not finish
Battista Parini ItalyDid not finish
T. H. E. Passmore South AfricaDid not finish
Paul Schulze GermanyDid not finish
Max Triebsch GermanyDid not finish
Louis Weintz United StatesDid not finish

Final

PlaceCyclistNationTime
1Charles Bartlett Great Britain2:41:48.6
2Charles Denny Great BritainUnknown
3Octave Lapize FranceUnknown
4William Pett Great BritainUnknown
5Pierre Texier FranceUnknown
6Walter Andrews CanadaUnknown
7D. C. Robertson Great BritainUnknown
8Sydney Bailey Great BritainUnknown
J. H. Bishop Great BritainDid not finish
François Bonnet FranceDid not finish
Guillaume Coeckelberg BelgiumDid not finish
Andrew Hansson SwedenDid not finish
G. C. Lutz FranceDid not finish
Leon Meredith Great BritainDid not finish
Harry Mussen Great BritainDid not finish
Gustaf Westerberg SwedenDid not finish
Harry Young CanadaDid not finish

Notes

  1. Nijland is listed as having competed for Germany in the Official Report section on the 100 kilometres; he was, however, Dutch and his nationality is correctly listed in all other places in the report.

Sources

  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .
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