Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Dates	July 17–18
Competitors	42 from 9 nations
Medalists
Benjamin Jones   Great Britain   Maurice Schilles   France   André Auffray   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 5000 metres was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the median of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 9 minutes, 25 seconds.

Results

Semifinals

The best cyclist in each of the 7 semifinals advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	8:39.8
2	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Guglielmo Malatesta	Italy	Unknown
4	Pierre Seginaud	France	Unknown
—	William Bailey	Great Britain	Did not finish

Semifinal 2

Demangel had finished first by inches, but was disqualified for fouling.^[1]

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Émile Marechal	France	9:01.4
2	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	Unknown
3	Antonie Gerrits	Netherlands	Unknown
—	Ernest Payne	Great Britain	Did not finish
	Émile Demangel	France	Disqualified

Semifinal 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	André Auffray	France	8:56.8
2	Hermann Martens	Germany	Unknown
3	Philipus Frylink	South Africa	Unknown
4	Bruno Götze	Germany	Unknown
5	William Morton	Canada	Unknown

Semifinal 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	8:42.8
2	W. F. Magee	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Pierre Texier	France	Unknown
4	T. H. E. Passmore	South Africa	Unknown
—	André Poulain	France	Did not finish

Semifinal 5

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	9:08.8
2	Karl Neumer	Germany	Unknown
3	Cesare Zanzottera	Italy	Unknown
4-9	Georgius Damen	Netherlands	Unknown
	Gaston Delaplane	France	Unknown
	Max Götze	Germany	Unknown
	J. L. Lavery	Great Britain	Unknown
	Frank Shore	South Africa	Unknown
	Richard Villepontoux	France	Unknown

Semifinal 6

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	8:53.0
2	Guglielmo Morisetti	Italy	Unknown
3	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands	Unknown
4	G. Dreyfus	France	Unknown
5-6	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown
	Albert Calvert	Great Britain	Unknown

Semifinal 7

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Maurice Schilles	France	7:55.4
2	C. V. Clark	Great Britain	Unknown
3	William Anderson	Canada	Unknown
4-7	Guillaume Coeckelberg	Belgium	Unknown
	Rudolf Katzer	Germany	Unknown
	Georges Perrin	France	Unknown
	Floris Venter	South Africa	Unknown

Final

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	8:36.2
2	Maurice Schilles	France	Unknown
3	André Auffray	France	Unknown
4	Émile Marechal	France	Unknown
5	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	Unknown
6	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	Unknown
7	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown

Notes

1. Official Report, p. 117.

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 .