Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's cross-country explained

Event:	Men's cross-country
Games:	2000 Summer
Date:	24 September
Competitors:	49
Nations:	26
Win Value:	2:09:02
Longnames:	yes
Gold:	Miguel Martinez
Goldnoc:	FRA
Silver:	Filip Meirhaeghe
Silvernoc:	BEL
Bronze:	Christoph Sauser
Bronzenoc:	SUI
Prev:	1996
Next:	2004

These are the official results of the Men's Mountainbike Race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There were a total number of 49 participants, with twelve non-finishers, in this event over 49.5 kilometres, held on 24 September 2000 at the Fairfield City Farm.^[1]

Final classification

Rank	Cyclist	NOC	Time
	Miguel Martinez		02:09:02
	Filip Meirhaeghe		+ 1.03
	Christoph Sauser		+ 2.18
4	José Antonio Hermida		+ 2.40
5	Lado Fumic		+ 2.55
6	Thomas Frischknecht		+ 3.39
7	Cadel Evans		+ 4.29
8	Carsten Bresser		+ 4.34
9	Geoff Kabush		+ 4.58
10	Paul Rowney		+ 5.19
11	Bas van Dooren		+ 5.34
12	Bart Brentjens		+ 5.39
13	Rob Woods		+ 5.39
14	Roland Green		+ 6.16
15	Roberto Lezaun		+ 6.54
16	Marco Bui		+ 7.06
17	Kashi Leuchs		+ 7.35
18	Ludovic Dubau		+ 7.46
19	Roel Paulissen		+ 7.52
20	Pavel Cherkasov		+ 8.19
21	Marek Galiński		+ 8.33
22	Michael Rasmussen		+ 9.13
23	Oli Beckingsale		+ 9.14
24	Ziranda Madrigal		+ 10.31
25	Nick Craig		+ 10.57
26	Mannie Heymans		+ 11.29
27	Sergiy Rysenko		+ 11.37
28	Robin Seymour		+ 11.37
29	Radim Korinek		+ 12.06
30	Tinker Juarez		+ 10.57
31	Hubert Pallhuber		+ 13.53
32	Travis Brown		+ 13.59
33	José Adrián Bonilla		+ 21.00
34	Raita Suzuki		+ 1 lap
35	Tom Larsen		+ 1 lap
36	Jesper Agergård		+ 1 lap
37	Primoz Strancar		+ 1 lap
-	Gang Dong-u		DNF
-	Ken Muhindi		DNF
-	Renato Seabra		DNF
-	Christophe Dupouey		DNF
-	Diego Garavito		DNF
-	Ignacio Gili		DNF
-	Peter Van Den Abeele		DNF
-	Patrick Tolhoek		DNF
-	Rok Drasler		DNF
-	Derek Horton		DNF
-	Thomas Hochstrasser		DNF
-	Rune Høydahl		DNF

See also

• Women's Cross Country Race

External links

• Official Report
• Report on cyclingnews.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Mountainbike, Cross-Country . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418024029/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/CYC/mens-mountainbike-cross-country.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 8 March 2020.