Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's track time trial

The women's 500 metre time trial in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twelve cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for two laps (500 metres) of the track.[1]

Cycling at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
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Track cycling
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In a field of personal bests, 20-year-old World Champion for the 500 m time trial, Anna Meares from Australia, set a new world record to claim the gold medal in 33.952 seconds. The previous world record was held by Yonghua Jiang of China, who minutes previously had set a new Olympic record in this event to claim the silver medal with a time of 34.112 seconds. Natallia Tsylinskaya from Belarus was awarded the bronze medal.

Medalists
Gold Silver Bronze
 Anna Meares (AUS)  Jiang Yonghua (CHN)  Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR)

Records

Anna Meares's time of 33.952 in the event set a new world record, bettering Jiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.

World RecordJiang Yonghua (CHN)Kumming, China P.R.34.000 s11 August 2002
Olympic RecordFélicia Ballanger (FRA)Sydney, Australia34.140 s16 September 2000

Results
Final results[1]
Rank Race
Number		 Name Country 250 m
Time		 500 m
Time
13Anna Meares Australia19.16433.952 WR
27Jiang Yonghua China19.19234.112
34Natallia Tsylinskaya Belarus19.30534.167
423Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania19.51734.317
526Yvonne Hijgenaar Netherlands19.51934.532
616Victoria Pendleton Great Britain19.69634.626
76Lori-Ann Muenzer Canada19.63034.628
824Nancy Contreras Reyes Mexico19.52334.783
932Svetlana Grankovskaya Russia19.73934.797
1021Sayuri Osuga Japan19.70435.045
1117Katrin Meinke Germany19.78935.088
1230Tamilla Abassova Russia19.98235.147

References
  1. "Cycling at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Women's 500 metres Time Trial". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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