Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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Cycling
at the Games of the V Olympiad
White City Stadium 1908.jpg
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: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 France: 1st  2nd  3rd  
 Germany: 1st  2nd  3rd  
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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
details
 Victor Johnson (GBR)  Émile Demangel (FRA)  Karl Neumer (GER)
5000 metres
details
 Benjamin Jones (GBR)  Maurice Schilles (FRA)  André Auffray (FRA)
20 kilometres
details
 Clarence Kingsbury (GBR)  Benjamin Jones (GBR)  Joseph Werbrouck (BEL)
100 kilometres
details
 Charles Bartlett (GBR)  Charles Denny (GBR)  Octave Lapize (FRA)
Sprint
details
No medalists - race declared void as time limit was exceeded in final
Tandem
details
 André Auffray
and Maurice Schilles (FRA)
 Frederick Hamlin
and Horace Johnson (GBR)
 Colin Brooks
and Walter Isaacs (GBR)
Team pursuit
details
 Great Britain (GBR)
Benjamin Jones
Clarence Kingsbury
Leonard Meredith
Ernest Payne
 Germany (GER)
Max Götze
Rudolf Katzer
Hermann Martens
Karl Neumer
Canada 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 Canada (CAN) 0 0 1 1

Notes

  1. Official Report, p. 113.
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References