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=20Rank!width=200Name !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

  1. 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.
  2. 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 .