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

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)

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