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

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. A challenge cup was presented by the Prince of Wales to the winner. Each nation could enter up to 12 cyclists.[1]

Men's 100 kilometres
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
The final lap
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 15–18
Competitors45 from 11 nations
Medalists
Charles Bartlett  Great Britain
Charles Denny  Great Britain
Octave Lapize  France
Cycling at the
1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yardsmen
5000 metresmen
20 kilometresmen
100 kilometresmen
Sprintmen
Tandemmen
Team pursuitmen

Competition format

The 100 kilometres race was conducted in two rounds, semifinals and a final. Each race was approximately 165.7 laps of the 660 yard track. The time limit for the race was 3 hours and 15 minutes. There were two semifinals. The first 6 cyclists to finish, and the 2 cyclists who led for the most laps, in each semifinal advanced to the final.

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1
RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Andrew Hansson Sweden2:50:21.4Q
2G. C. Lutz FranceUnknownQ
3Sydney Bailey Great BritainUnknownQ
4Pierre Texier FranceUnknownQ
5J. H. Bishop Great BritainUnknownQ
6D. C. Robertson Great BritainUnknownQ
7–14William Anderson CanadaUnknown
Alwin Boldt GermanyUnknown
François Bonnet FranceUnknownq
Georgius Damen NetherlandsUnknown
Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein NetherlandsUnknown
André Lepère FranceUnknown
Harry Mussen Great BritainUnknownq
J. Norman Great BritainUnknown
—Rudolf Katzer GermanyDNF
Frederick McCarthy CanadaDNF
Ioannis Santorinaios GreeceDNF

Semifinal 2

It is not clear how Young advanced to the final; the Official Report says in the results of this heat that Coeckelberg and Denny qualified as having led the most laps, and in the description of the final field says that Young was "permitted to start, having satisfied the judges that he was not lapped in Heat 2."[2]

RankCyclistNationTimeNotes
1Leon Meredith Great Britain2:43:15.4Q
2Charles Bartlett Great BritainUnknownQ
3Gustaf Westerberg SwedenUnknownQ
4Octave Lapize FranceUnknownQ
5Walter Andrews CanadaUnknownQ
6William Pett Great BritainUnknownQ
7–9Guillaume Coeckelberg BelgiumUnknownq
Charles Denny Great BritainUnknownq
Harry Young CanadaUnknownq
—Cesare Zanzottera ItalyDNF
Charles Avrillon FranceDNF
H. Cunault FranceDNF
Bruno Götze GermanyDNF
Pierre Hostein FranceDNF
Robert Jolly Great BritainDNF
Jean Madelaine FranceDNF
Guglielmo Malatesta ItalyDNF
Hermann Martens GermanyDNF
William Morton CanadaDNF
Dorus Nijland Netherlands[3]DNF
David Noon Great BritainDNF
Battista Parini ItalyDNF
T. H. E. Passmore South AfricaDNF
Paul Schulze GermanyDNF
Max Triebsch GermanyDNF
Louis Weintz United StatesDNF

Final
RankCyclistNationTime
Charles Bartlett Great Britain2:41:48.6
Charles Denny Great BritainUnknown
Octave 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 BritainDNF
François Bonnet FranceDNF
Guillaume Coeckelberg BelgiumDNF
Andrew Hansson SwedenDNF
G. C. Lutz FranceDNF
Leon Meredith Great BritainDNF
Harry Mussen Great BritainDNF
Gustaf Westerberg SwedenDNF
Harry Young CanadaDNF

Notes
  1. Official Report, p. 33.
  2. Official Report, pp. 121–22.
  3. 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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