Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

Event:Cycling
Games:2000 Summer
Venues:Western Sydney Parklands
Sydney and surrounding area
Dunc Gray Velodrome
Date:16 -20 September 2000
Competitors:462
Nations:55
Prev:1996
Next:2004

Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 3 different bicycle racing disciplines were contested: Road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking.[1]

Road cycling

Men's road race
Men's time trial
Vacated[2]
Women's road race
Women's time trial

Track cycling

Men

Keirin
Madison

Brett Aitken
Scott McGrory

Etienne De Wilde
Matthew Gilmore

Silvio Martinello
Marco Villa
Points race
Individual pursuit
Team pursuit

Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Olaf Pollack

Sergiy Chernyavsky
Sergiy Matveyev
Alexander Symonenko
Oleksandr Fedenko

Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
Bradley Wiggins
Jon Clay
Rob Hayles
Individual sprint
Team sprint

Florian Rousseau
Arnaud Tournant
Laurent Gané

Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
Jason Queally

Gary Neiwand
Sean Eadie
Darryn Hill
Time trial

Women

Points race
Individual pursuit
Sprint
Time trial

Mountain biking

Men's
Women's

Records broken

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2000 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling.

EventNameNationScoreDateRecord
1'01"609 16 September OR
4'18"97216 September OR
4'18"515 16 September OR
4'04"03018 September OR
4'01"810 18 September OR
4'00"830 19 September WR, OR
3'59"710 19 September WR, OR
34"140 16 September OR
3'31"57017 September OR
3'30"81617 September WR, OR
OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources[3] [4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042456/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/CYC/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 7 March 2020.
  2. On 17 January 2013, Lance Armstrong was stripped of the bronze medal and disqualified by the International Olympic Committee for an anti-doping rule violation. The IOC also decided to not award Spanish cyclist Abraham Olano the medal, as he had also tested positive for doping, back in 1998.
  3. Web site: Union Cycliste Internationale - Men - Olympic Record. Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. 24 November 2014. PDF.
  4. Web site: Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record. Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. 24 November 2014. PDF.