Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics – Men's 1 km time trial (LC 3–4) explained

Event:	Men's 1 km time trial (LC 3-4)
Games:	2008 Summer
Venue:	Laoshan Velodrome
Dates:	7 September
Competitors:	20
Nations:	12
Win Value:	1:14.936
Gold:	Simon Richardson
Goldnpc:	GBR
Silver:	Maskai Fujita
Silvernpc:	JPN
Bronze:	Greg Ball
Bronzenpc:	AUS

The Men's 1 km time trial (LC 3-4) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics took place on 7 September at the Laoshan Velodrome.^[1]

The world records for both LC3 and LC4 categories were broken during the event. Simon Richardson (Great Britain) set a new record of 1:14.936 for the LC3 class and Greg Ball (USA) set a new record of 1:21.157 for the LC4 class. This was the first gold medal for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.^[2]

PR = Paralympic RecordWR = World Record

Results

width=20	Rank!	width=200	Name !	Class	Time	Factor (%)	Final Time with % factor
		LC3	1:14.936 WR	100.000	1:14.936
		LC3	1:17.314	100.000	1:17.314
		LC4	1:21.157 WR	95.718	1:17.681
4		LC4	1:21.172	95.718	1:17.696
5		LC3	1:18.515	100.000	1:18.515
6		LC3	1:18.603	100.000	1:18.603
7		LC4	1:22.473	95.718	1:18.941
8		LC3	1:20.561	100.000	1:20.561
9		LC3	1:21.578	100.000	1:21.578
10		LC3	1:21.954	100.000	1:21.954
11		LC3	1:22.526	100.000	1:22.526
12		LC4	1:26.757	95.718	1:23.042
13		LC4	1:27.161	95.718	1:23.428
14		LC4	1:27.690	95.718	1:23.935
15		LC4	1:28.392	95.718	1:24.607
16		LC3	1:27.054	100.000	1:27.054
17		LC4	1:31.787	95.718	1:27.856
18		LC3	1:27.934	100.000	1:27.934
19		LC3	1:28.973	100.000	1:28.973
20		LC4	1:33.275	95.718	1:29.280

Notes and References

Web site: Men's 1 km time trial (LC 3-4) Official Results. PDF. Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games official website. 2008-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20080910224129/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRMP/ENG/INF/CT/C73C/CTM033100.pdf. 2008-09-10. dead.
Web site: Paralympics 2008 - Track Day 1 . British Cycling . 2008-09-07 . 2008-09-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080913135915/http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/gbr/OlympicGames2008/20080907_paralympics_track_day_one.asp . September 13, 2008 .