Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Cycling
at the Games of the V Olympiad

The White City Stadium during the 1908 Summer Olympics
Venues
Track cycling White City Stadium
Dates 13 July – 18 July
Cyclists 97 from 11 countries
Top ranked countries
Great Britain: 5 1st, gold medalist(s)  3 2nd, silver medalist(s)  1 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
France: 1 1st, gold medalist(s)  2 2nd, silver medalist(s)  2 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
Germany: 0 1st, gold medalist(s)  1 2nd, silver medalist(s)  1 3rd, bronze medalist(s)  
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, with rainfall causing the track to flood on occasion.[1] The track was 660 yards long (being built around the perimeter of the White City Stadium's athletics track); some events (the 660 yards and the team pursuit) used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
660 yards
  Victor Johnson (GBR)  Émile Demangel (FRA)  Karl Neumer (GER)
5000 metres
  Benjamin Jones (GBR)  Maurice Schilles (FRA)  André Auffray (FRA)
20 kilometres
  Clarence Kingsbury (GBR)  Benjamin Jones (GBR)  Joseph Werbrouck (BEL)
100 kilometres
  Charles Bartlett (GBR)  Charles Denny (GBR)  Octave Lapize (FRA)
Sprint
 No medalists - race declared void as time limit was exceeded in final
Tandem
  André Auffray
and Maurice Schilles (FRA)		  Frederick Hamlin
and Horace Johnson (GBR)		  Colin Brooks
and Walter Isaacs (GBR)
Team pursuit
  Great Britain (GBR)
Benjamin Jones
Clarence Kingsbury
Leonard Meredith
Ernest Payne		  Germany (GER)
Max Götze
Rudolf Katzer
Hermann Martens
Karl Neumer		  Canada (CAN)
William Anderson
Walter Andrews
Frederick McCarthy
William Morton

Participating nations

A total of 97 cyclists from 11 nations competed at the London Games:[2]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Great Britain (GBR) 5 3 1 9
2  France (FRA) 1 2 2 5
3  Germany (GER) 0 1 1 2
4  Belgium (BEL) 0 0 1 1
 Canada (CAN) 0 0 1 1

Notes

  1. ↑ Official Report, p. 113.
  2. ↑ "Cycling at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.

References

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