Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial

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Men's Time Trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Cycling):

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Viatcheslav Ekimov (RUS)	Bobby Julich (USA)	Michael Rogers (AUS)

Of the top riders, it soon became clear that Sydney 2000 time trial gold medal winner Russian rider Viatcheslav Ekimov was setting the time to beat. The current world time trial champion, Michael Rogers from Australia, appeared to match Ekimov's times, but faded in the final kilometres. Tyler Hamilton, from the USA, had problems with his radio shortly after the start, and rode the race effectively without radio communication. Hamilton finished strongly claiming the gold medal for the USA, averaging 50.062 km/h to finish the 48 km course in 57:31.74. Ekimov was awarded the silver medal, with a time of 57:50.58 nearly 19 seconds behind Hamilton, with another American, Bobby Julich, in a time of 57:58.19 inching out Michael Rogers (58:01.67) for the bronze medal.

Michael Rich (58:09.46) from Germany finished 37 seconds behind Hamilton for fifth, with Kazakhstan rider Alexander Vinokourov 1:26 behind the leader. The last person to start, the 2000 Olympics road race winner and former world time trial champion Jan Ullrich from Germany, could not match the pace and ended with a time of 59:02.04, one and a half minutes behind Hamilton in seventh position.

Tyler Hamilton's gold medal came into question when he failed a blood doping test. He was initially allowed to keep the medal after a lab mix-up spoiled the backup blood sample.^[1][2] Hamilton subsequently failed another doping test during the following month's Vuelta a España. This time, the backup sample confirmed the offense, and Hamilton was given a two-year ban.^[3]

On May 20, 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hamilton returned his gold medal to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after Hamilton acknowledged to 60 Minutes that he used doping products during his career. The International Olympic Committee responded in August 2012 by stripping Hamilton of his medal.^[4]

Results

Final results^[5]

Rank	Cyclist	Country	Time
	Viatcheslav Ekimov	Russia	57:50.58
	Bobby Julich	United States	57:58.19
	Michael Rogers	Australia	58:01.67
4	Michael Rich	Germany	58:09.46
5	Alexander Vinokourov	Kazakhstan	58:58.14
6	Jan Ullrich	Germany	59:02.04
7	Santiago Botero	Colombia	59:04.76
8	Igor González de Galdeano	Spain	59:27.25
9	Fabian Cancellara	Switzerland	59:42.38
10	Yuriy Krivtsov	Ukraine	59:49.40
11	Christophe Moreau	France	59:50.28
12	Marc Wauters	Belgium	59:59.63
13	Michal Hrazdira	Czech Republic	1:00:07.23
14	Víctor Hugo Peña	Colombia	1:00:09.89
15	Iván Gutiérrez	Spain	1:00:22.80
16	Rene Andrle	Czech Republic	1:00:27.29
17	Eric Wohlberg	Canada	1:00:31.49
18	Peter van Petegem	Belgium	1:00:35.73
19	Frank Høj	Denmark	1:00:37.49
20	Thomas Dekker	Netherlands	1:00:38.05
21	László Bodrogi	Hungary	1:00:44.31
22	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	1:01:00.47
23	Evgeny Vakker	Kyrgyzstan	1:01:21.10
24	Sérgio Paulinho	Portugal	1:01:25.63
25	Benoît Joachim	Luxembourg	1:01:50.46
26	Rubens Bertogliati	Switzerland	1:02:16.56
27	Kurt Asle Arvesen	Norway	1:02:21.28
28	Evgeni Petrov	Russia	1:02:50.32
29	Stuart Dangerfield	Great Britain	1:03:00.72
30	Dawid Krupa	Poland	1:03:07.05
31	Thor Hushovd	Norway	1:03:10.36
32	Heath Blackgrove	New Zealand	1:03:20.11
33	Thomas Lovkvist	Sweden	1:03:43.70
34	Gorazd Stangelj	Slovenia	1:03:45:84
35	Matej Jurčo	Slovakia	1:04:22.58
36	Slawomir Kohut	Poland	1:06:19.29
—	Andrey Kashechkin	Kazakhstan	DNF
—	Robert Hunter	South Africa	DNS
—	Filippo Pozzato	Italy	DNS
DSQ	Tyler Hamilton	United States	57:31.74

(DNS/F = Did Not Start/Finish)

References

• Official Olympic Report