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

Men's 100 kilometres at the Games of the IV Olympiad
The final lap
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 15–18
Competitors	45 from 11 nations
Medalists
Charles Bartlett   Great Britain   Charles Denny   Great Britain   Octave Lapize   France

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards		men
5000 metres		men
20 kilometres		men
100 kilometres		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

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. The time limit for the race was 3 hours and 15 minutes. A challenge cup was presented by the Prince of Wales to the winner.

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	2:50:21.4
2	G. C. Lutz	France	Unknown
3	Sydney Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown
4	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown
5	J. H. Bishop	Great Britain	Unknown
6	D. C. Robertson	Great Britain	Unknown
7-14	William Anderson	Canada	Unknown
	Alwin Boldt	Germany	Unknown
	François Bonnet	France	Unknown
	Georgius Damen	Netherlands	Unknown
	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown
	André Lepère	France	Unknown
	Harry Mussen	Great Britain	Unknown
	J. Norman	Great Britain	Unknown
—	Rudolf Katzer	Germany	Did not finish
	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	Did not finish
	Ioannis Santorinaios	Greece	Did not finish

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Leon Meredith	Great Britain	2:43:15.4
2	Charles Bartlett	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Gustaf Westerberg	Sweden	Unknown
4	Octave Lapize	France	Unknown
5	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown
6	William Pett	Great Britain	Unknown
7-9	Guillaume Coeckelberg	Belgium	Unknown
	Charles Denny	Great Britain	Unknown
	Harry Young	Canada	Unknown
—	Cesare Zanzottera	Italy	Did not finish
	Charles Avrillon	France	Did not finish
	H. Cunault	France	Did not finish
	Bruno Götze	Germany	Did not finish
	Pierre Hostein	France	Did not finish
	Robert Jolly	Great Britain	Did not finish
	Jean Madelaine	France	Did not finish
	Guglielmo Malatesta	Italy	Did not finish
	Hermann Martens	Germany	Did not finish
	William Morton	Canada	Did not finish
	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands[1]	Did not finish
	David Noon	Great Britain	Did not finish
	Battista Parini	Italy	Did not finish
	T. H. E. Passmore	South Africa	Did not finish
	Paul Schulze	Germany	Did not finish
	Max Triebsch	Germany	Did not finish
	Louis Weintz	United States	Did not finish

Final

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Charles Bartlett	Great Britain	2:41:48.6
2	Charles Denny	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Octave Lapize	France	Unknown
4	William Pett	Great Britain	Unknown
5	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown
6	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown
7	D. C. Robertson	Great Britain	Unknown
8	Sydney Bailey	Great Britain	Unknown
—	J. H. Bishop	Great Britain	Did not finish
	François Bonnet	France	Did not finish
	Guillaume Coeckelberg	Belgium	Did not finish
	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	Did not finish
	G. C. Lutz	France	Did not finish
	Leon Meredith	Great Britain	Did not finish
	Harry Mussen	Great Britain	Did not finish
	Gustaf Westerberg	Sweden	Did not finish
	Harry Young	Canada	Did not finish

Notes

1. 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 .