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Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Template:Infobox Olympic Cycling The cycling competitions at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta consisted of three separate categories: road cycling, track cycling and mountain biking. The road cycling events took place in downtown Atlanta, track cycling was carried out at the Stone Mountain velodrome in neighboring DeKalb County, and the mountain biking events were held at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers.

Road

Men's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
details 		 Pascal Richard (SUI)  Rolf Sørensen (DEN)  Max Sciandri (GBR)
Men's time trial
details 		 Miguel Indurain (ESP)  Abraham Olano (ESP)  Chris Boardman (GBR)

Women's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Women's road race
details 		 Jeannie Longo (FRA)  Imelda Chiappa (ITA)  Clara Hughes (CAN)
Women's time trial
details 		 Zulfiya Zabirova (RUS)  Jeannie Longo (FRA)  Clara Hughes (CAN)

Track

Men's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
individual pursuit
details 		 Andrea Collinelli (ITA)  Philippe Ermenault (FRA)  Bradley McGee (AUS)
team pursuit
details 		 France (FRA)
Christophe Capelle
Philippe Ermenault
Jean-Michel Monin
Francis Moreau 		 Russia (RUS)
Eduard Gritsun
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Alexei Markov
Anton Shantyr 		 Australia (AUS)
Brett Aitken
Stuart O'Grady
Timothy O'Shannessey
Dean Woods
points race
details 		 Silvio Martinello (ITA)  Brian Walton (CAN)  Stuart O'Grady (AUS)
sprint
details 		 Jens Fiedler (GER)  Marty Nothstein (USA)  Curt Harnett (CAN)
1,000 metre time trial
details 		 Florian Rousseau (FRA)  Erin Hartwell (USA)  Takanobu Jumonji (JPN)

Women's

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual pursuit
details 		 Antonella Bellutti (ITA)  Marion Clignet (FRA)  Judith Arndt (GER)
points race
details 		 Nathalie Lancien (FRA)  Ingrid Haringa (NED)  Lucy Tyler-Sharman (AUS)
sprint
details 		 Félicia Ballanger (FRA)  Michelle Ferris (AUS)  Ingrid Haringa (NED)

Mountain bike

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's cross-country
details 		 Bart Brentjens (NED)  Thomas Frischknecht (SUI)  Miguel Martinez (FRA)
Women's cross-country
details 		 Paola Pezzo (ITA)  Alison Sydor (CAN)  Susan DeMattei (USA)

Medal table

1  France 5 3 1 9
2  Italy 4 1 0 5
3  Netherlands 1 1 1 3
4  Spain 1 1 0 2
 Switzerland 1 1 0 2
 Russia 1 1 0 2
7  Germany 1 0 1 2
8  Canada 0 2 3 5
9  United States 0 2 1 3
10  Australia 0 1 4 5
11  Denmark 0 1 0 1
12  Great Britain 0 0 2 2
13  Japan 0 0 1 1

Broken records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 1996 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling
Event Name Nation Time Date Record
Men's flying 200 m time trial Gary Neiwand Australia 10"129 24 July OR
Men's 1 km time trial Florian Rousseau France 1'02"712 24 July OR
Men's individual pursuit Andrea Collinelli Italy 4'19"699 24 July WR, OR
Men's team pursuit Eduard Gritsun
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Aleksey Markov
Anton Chantyr		 Russia 4'08"785 26 July OR
Christophe Capelle
Philippe Ermenault
Jean-Michel Monin
Francis Moreau		 France 4'06"880 27 July OR
Christophe Capelle
Philippe Ermenault
Jean-Michel Monin
Francis Moreau		 France 4'05"930 27 July OR
Women's flying 200 m time trial Michelle Ferris Australia 11"212 24 July OR
Women's individual pursuit Antonella Bellutti Italy 3'34"130 25 July OR
Antonella Bellutti Italy 3'32"371 25 July OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Union Cycliste Internationale - Men - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. October 21, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  2. ^ "Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. October 21, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
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