Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Velodrome (track) Parnitha Mountain Bike Venue (mountain) Athens and surrounding area (road)
Dates	14 – 24 August 2004
No. of events	18
Competitors	464 from 61 nations

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics consisted of 18 events in three disciplines:

• Road cycling, held at the Athens historic centre (start and finish at Kotzia Square, for the road race events) and in Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre (for the time trial events).
• Track cycling, held at the Olympic Velodrome.
• Mountain biking, held at the Parnitha Olympic Mountain Bike Venue.

In total, 464 cyclists participated: these consisted of 334 men and 130 women, from 61 countries. The youngest participant was Ignatas Konovalovas, at 18 years, while the oldest was Jeannie Longo, at 45 years. The most successful contestant was Bradley Wiggins, who won three medals: one gold, one silver and one bronze. The most successful country was Australia, with its team members winning 6 gold and 11 total medals. Russia and Great Britain came in second place with 3 and 2 golds, respectively. After a disqualification, Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia was awarded his second gold medal in men's time trial, defending his title from 2000, and his third gold medal overall. He achieved his first victory back in 1988, when he competed in men's track pursuit as part of the Soviet team.

Australia dominated track events, winning 5 out of its 6 cycling gold medals there.

Road cycling

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race	Paolo Bettini  Italy	Sérgio Paulinho  Portugal	Axel Merckx  Belgium
Men's time trial	Viatcheslav Ekimov  Russia	Bobby Julich  United States	Michael Rogers  Australia
Women's road race	Sara Carrigan  Australia	Judith Arndt  Germany	Olga Slyusareva  Russia
Women's time trial	Leontien van Moorsel  Netherlands	Deirdre Demet-Barry  United States	Karin Thürig  Switzerland

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Women's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
points race	Olga Slyusareva  Russia	Belem Guerrero Méndez  Mexico	María Luisa Calle  Colombia
pursuit	Sarah Ulmer  New Zealand	Katie Mactier  Australia	Leontien van Moorsel  Netherlands
sprint	Lori-Ann Muenzer  Canada	Tamilla Abassova  Russia	Anna Meares  Australia
time trial	Anna Meares  Australia	Jiang Yonghua  China	Natallia Tsylinskaya  Belarus

Mountain biking

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Julien Absalon  France	José Antonio Hermida  Spain	Bart Brentjens  Netherlands
Women's	Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå  Norway	Marie-Hélène Prémont  Canada	Sabine Spitz  Germany

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	6	2	3	11
2	Russia (RUS)	3	1	1	5
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
4	Germany (GER)	1	1	4	6
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
6	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
7	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
8	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
11	Spain (ESP)	0	3	2	5
12	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
13	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
14	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		18	18	18	54

World records broken

Main article: World and Olympic records set at the 2004 Summer Olympics

• Women's 500 m time trial: Australia's Anna Meares, 33.952 s (20 August). The previous record of 34.000 s was set in August 2002 by Yonghua Jiang.
• Women's individual pursuit: New Zealand's Sarah Ulmer, 3:24.537 (22 August). This record was broken multiple times during these Games, the prior instances being New Zealand's Sarah Ulmer, 3:26.400 (21 August); Australia's Katie Mactier, 3:29.945 (21 August). The previous record of 3:30.604 was set in May by Ulmer.
• Men's team pursuit: Australia's Graeme Brown, Brett Lancaster, Bradley McGee, Luke Roberts, 3:56.610 (22 August). The previous record of 3:59:583 was set in 2002 by Australian team.

External links

• Official result book – Cycling Mountain Bike
• Official result book – Cycling Road
• Official result book – Cycling Track