Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking.[1]

Cycling
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
The Dunc Gray Velodrome
VenuesWestern Sydney Parklands
Sydney and surrounding area
Dunc Gray Velodrome
Date16 September - 20 September
Competitors462 from 55 nations

Road cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
Jan Ullrich
 Germany
Alexander Vinokourov
 Kazakhstan
Andreas Klöden
 Germany
Men's time trial
Viatcheslav Ekimov
 Russia
Jan Ullrich
 Germany
Vacated[2]
Women's road race
Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands
Hanka Kupfernagel
 Germany
Diana Žiliūtė
 Lithuania
Women's time trial
Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands
Mari Holden
 United States
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli
 France

Track cycling

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
Florian Rousseau
 France
Gary Neiwand
 Australia
Jens Fiedler
 Germany
Madison
 Australia (AUS)
Brett Aitken
Scott McGrory
 Belgium (BEL)
Etienne De Wilde
Matthew Gilmore
 Italy (ITA)
Silvio Martinello
Marco Villa
Points race
Juan Llaneras
 Spain
Milton Wynants
 Uruguay
Alexey Markov
 Russia
Individual pursuit
Robert Bartko
 Germany
Jens Lehmann
 Germany
Bradley McGee
 Australia
Team pursuit
 Germany (GER)
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Olaf Pollack
 Ukraine (UKR)
Sergiy Chernyavsky
Sergiy Matveyev
Alexander Symonenko
Oleksandr Fedenko
 Great Britain (GBR)
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
Bradley Wiggins
Jon Clay
Rob Hayles
Individual sprint
Marty Nothstein
 United States
Florian Rousseau
 France
Jens Fiedler
 Germany
Team sprint
 France (FRA)
Florian Rousseau
Arnaud Tournant
Laurent Gané
 Great Britain (GBR)
Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
Jason Queally
 Australia (AUS)
Gary Neiwand
Sean Eadie
Darryn Hill
Time trial
Jason Queally
 Great Britain
Stefan Nimke
 Germany
Shane Kelly
 Australia

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
Antonella Bellutti
 Italy
Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands
Olga Slioussareva
 Russia
pursuit
Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands
Marion Clignet
 France
Yvonne McGregor
 Great Britain
Sprint
Félicia Ballanger
 France
Oksana Grishina
 Russia
Iryna Yanovych
 Ukraine
time trial
Félicia Ballanger
 France
Michelle Ferris
 Australia
Jiang Cuihua
 China

Mountain biking

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
Miguel Martinez
 France
Filip Meirhaeghe
 Belgium
Christoph Sauser
 Switzerland
Women's
Paola Pezzo
 Italy
Barbara Blatter
 Switzerland
Margarita Fullana
 Spain

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France (FRA)5218
2 Germany (GER)34310
3 Netherlands (NED)3104
4 Italy (ITA)2013
5 Australia (AUS)1236
6 Great Britain (GBR)1124
 Russia (RUS)1124
8 United States (USA)1102
9 Spain (ESP)1012
10 Belgium (BEL)0202
11 Switzerland (SUI)0112
 Ukraine (UKR)0112
13 Kazakhstan (KAZ)0101
 Uruguay (URU)0101
15 China (CHN)0011
 Lithuania (LTU)0011
Totals (16 nations)18181753

Records broken

Event Name Nation Score Date Record
Men's 1 km time trialJason QueallyGreat Britain1'01"60916 SeptemberOR
Men's individual pursuitRobert BartkoGermany4'18"97216 SeptemberOR
Robert BartkoGermany4'18"51516 SeptemberOR
Men's team pursuitBryan Steel
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins
Chris Newton
Great Britain4'04"03018 SeptemberOR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Germany4'01"81018 SeptemberOR
Oleksandr Fedenko
Oleksandr Symonenko
Sergiy Matveyev
Sergiy Chernyavskyy
Ukraine4'00"83019 SeptemberWR, OR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Germany3'59"71019 SeptemberWR, OR
Women's 500 m time trialFelicia BallangerFrance34"14016 SeptemberOR
Women's individual pursuitLeontien ZijlaardNetherlands3'31"57017 SeptemberOR
Leontien ZijlaardNetherlands3'30"81617 SeptemberWR, OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources[3][4]

References

  1. "Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. On 17 January 2013, Lance Armstrong was stripped of the bronze medal and disqualified by the International Olympic Committee for an anti-doping rule violation. They also decided not to award Spanish cyclist Abraham Olano the medal, as he had also tested positive for doping, back in 1998.
  3. "Union Cycliste Internationale - Men - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  4. "Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
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