London Olympics 2012 Cycling Medals List

Road Cycling Men

28 July 2012– The Mall –10.00am to 16.15pm

Current Olympic Champion Samuel Sanchez Spain

Current World Champion Mark Cavendish Great Britain

Current British National Champion Bradley Wiggins

Gold Alexandr Vinokurov Kazakhstan

Silver Rigoberto Uran Uran Columbia

Bronze Alexander Kristoff Norway

4th Taylor Phinney USA

5th Sergey Lagutin Urzbekistan

6th Stuart O’Grady Australia

7th Jurgen Roelandts Germany

8th Gregory Rast Switzerland

9th Luca Paolini Italy

10th Jack Bauer Australia

Highest British Placed Athlete was Mark Cavendish in 29th Position.

Things didn’t work in favour of Team GB. It was Great Britain’s first chance of medalling in the London 2012 Olympics, and our game-plan, was to deliver the current World Road Race Champion, Mark Cavendish, to the Mall. No big secret there! 250 kilometres in length, it was going to be difficult to control the race for the whole of the event and only five team members to hand, maximum. Not quite a full TdF (Tour de France) professional team.

It was soon evident that smaller teamed countries were against a bunch sprint on the Mall, and a breakaway soon formed. The Netherlands broke away after a half hours racing through the other side of RichmondPark. The race narrowed on the exit and the peleton stretched and twenty riders broke free. This came back together, but another group soon formed and they began to inch away.

By the first ascend of Box Hill, twelve cyclists had gained over six minuets. Team GB led the chase with Bradley Wiggins on the front. A crash on the run up to Box Hill saw the peleton break into three groups.

As the circuits of Box Hill came down, so did the time gaps. Australia’s Michael Rogers set about bridging the first gap to the front group. Riders were dropped back towards the peleton.

Italy’s Vincento Nibali attacked out of the peleton. Four riders join him including Belgium’s Phillip Gilbert. More riders peeled off the front, but Team GB stayed in control. The pace was high.

On the last ascend, the leaders time got brought down to one and a half minutes. Over the top of Box Hill and heading back towards the London finish, the peloton came back together, but Team GB were spent by that time. Other nations planning on a bunch sprint finish gave little impetus towards the control of the race and another group soon formed on the charge back to the Mall.

A crash in the last ten kilometres saw Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara misjudge a corner and that ruled him out of a podium finish.

Kristoff of Norway, Uran of Columbia and Vinokurov of Kazakhstan made a last minute bid for freedom, and as the chasing riders stalled, the three broke free. Kristoff didn’t have the pace, but Uran was no match for Alexandr Vinokurov who sprinted for Gold in his penultimate professional race. The peleton failed to gather the pace to catch the escapees and were left to contest the minor placings.

Road Cycling Women

29 July 2012– The Mall – 12.00noon to16.15pm

Current Olympic Champion Nichole Cooke Great Britain

Current World Champion

Current British National Champion Lizzie Armitstead

Gold Marianne Vos Netherlands

Silver Lizzie Armitstead Great Britain

Bronze Olga Zabelinskaya Russia

4th Ina-Yoko Teutenberg Germany

5th Giorgia Bronzini Italy

6th Emma Johansson Sweden

7th Shelley Olds USA

8th PaulineFerrand-Prevot France

9th Liesbet de Vocht Belgium

10th Aude Biannic France

Highest British Placed Athlete was Lizzie Armitstead in 2nd place.

Road Cycling Women’s Individual Time Trial

01 August 2012–HamptonCourtPalace–10.00am to 11.15am

Current Olympic Champion Kristin Armstrong USA

Current World Champion

Current British National Champion Emma Pooley

Gold Kristin Armstrong USA

Silver Judith Arndt Germany

Bronze Olga Zabelinskaya Russia

4th Melanie Linda Villumsen New Zealand

5th Clara Hughes Canada

6th Emma Pooley Great Britain

7th Amber Neben USA

8th Ellen van Dijk Netherlands

9th Trixi Worrack Germany

10th Lizzie Armitstead Great Britain

Highest British Placed Athlete was Emma Pooley in 6th position

Road Cycling Men’s Individual Time Trial

01 August 2012–HamptonCourtPalace–13.00pm to 16.15pm

Current Olympic Champion Fabian Cancellara Switzerland

Current World Champion

Current British National Champion

Gold Bradley Wiggins Great Britain

Silver Tony Martin Germany

Bronze Chris Froome Great Britain

4th Taylor Phinney USA

5th Marco Pinotti Italy

6th Michael Rogers Australia

7th Fabian Cancellara Switzerland

8th Bert Grabsch Germany

9th Jonathon Nicolas CastroviejoSpain

10th Janez Brajkovic Slovenia

Highest British Placed Athlete was Bradley Wiggins in first position.

Close of Road Cycling Events

Track Cycling

02 August 2012– The Olympic Park Velodrome –16.00pm to 18.30pm

Men’s Team Pursuit Qualifying

Great Britain qualify in top postion & set a new WR: 3.52.499. They will ride against Australia .New Zealand & Denmark will ride for bronze.

Men’s Team Sprint Qualifying

Great Britain qualify fastest setting a new Olympic record of 43.065

Men’s Team Sprint Medals

Current Olympic Champions Great Britain Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Jamie Staff

Current World Champions Australia

Current British National Champions Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Jason Queally

World Record Time 42.914 by Germany 2011

Gold Great Britain(WR:42.600) Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny & Philip Hindes…

Silver France

Bronze Germany

Women’s Team Sprint Qualifying

China qualify the fastest setting a new world record of 32.447

Great Britain are relegated due to a change over infringement.

Women’s Team Sprint Medals

Current Olympic Champions None

Current World Champions Germany

Current British National Champions Victoria Pendleton & Jessica Varnish

World Record Time 32.549 byGermanyat Melbourne 2012

Gold Germany Miriam Welte & Kristina Vogel

Silver China (WR: 32.422) set again in the Heat this time. (Chinawere relegated to Silver due to a change over infringement)

Bronze Australia

03 August 2012 - The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.55pm

Men’s Team Pursuit Medals

Current Olympic Champions Great Britain Ed Clancy, Bradley Wiggins, Geraint Thomas & Paul Manning

Current World Champions Great Britain

Current British National Champions J Dibben, A Slater, O Doull, P Dibben

World Record Time 3:53.295 byGreat Britain at Melbourne 2012

Gold Great Britain (WR: 3.51.659) Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke & Peter Kennaugh…

Silver Australia

Bronze New Zealand

Women’s Keirin Medals

Current Olympic Champion None

Current World Champion Anna Meares Australia

Current British National Champion Rebecca James

Gold Victoria Pendleton Great Britain

Silver Shuang Guo China

Bronze Sze Wai Lee Hong Kong

Women’s Team Pursuit Qualifying

Great Britain qualify with the quickest time setting a new world record of WR: 3.15.669

04 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 10.00am to 11.30am

Men’s Omnium 250m Flying Lap

Ed Clancy of Great Britainwins the first round of the men’s omnium event in a time of 12.556

Men’s Sprint Qualifying

Great Britain’s Jason Kenny sets the quickest qualifying time and new Olympic record of 9.713

04 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.40pm

Men’s Omnium 30Km Points Race

Roger Kluge of Germany wins the points race round of the omnium. Great Britain’s Ed Clancy finishes eleventh.

Men’s Omnium Elimination Race

Bryan Coquard of France wins the elimination round of the omnium.Great Britain’s Ed Clancy finishes a respectable fifth.

Men’s Sprint 1/16th Finals Repecharges 1/8th Finals 9-12th

Women’s Team Pursuit Heats

Great Britain set another world record of 3.14.682 to ride for gold against USA. Australia will ride for bronze against Canada later tonight.

Women’s Team Pursuit Medals

Current Olympic Champions None

Current World Champions Great Britain

Current British National Champions Dani King, Joanna Rowsell & Sarah Storey

World Record Time 3.15.720 by Great Britain in Melbourne 2012

Gold Great Britain(WR: 3.14.051) Dani King, Joanna Rowsell & Laura Trott

Silver USA

Bronze Canada

05 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 10.00am to 11.25am

Men’s Omnium 4Km Individual Pursuit

Lasse Norman Hanson ofNorwaywins the 4 kilometer pursuit round of the men’s omnium in a time of 4.20.674

Women’s Sprint Qualifying

Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton sets the quickest qualifying time of 10.724 in the women’s sprint, a new Olympic Record.

05 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 19.05pm

Men’s Omnium 15Km Scratch Race

Zac ary Bell of Canada wins the scratch race round of the men’s omnium.

Men’s Omnium 1Km Individual Time Trial

Great Britain’s Ed Clancy wins the final round of the men’s omnium in an almost world beating time of 1.00.981

Men’s Omnium Medals

Current Olympic Champion None

Current World Champion Glenn O’Shea Australia

Current British National Champion Jonathon Mould

Gold Lasse Norman Hanson Denmark

Silver BryanCoquard France

Bronze Ed Clancy Great Britain

Men’s Sprint ¼ Finals 5-8th

Women’s Sprint Qualifying 1/16th Finals

Women’s Sprint Repecharges 1/8th Finals 9-12th

Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton progresses to the quarter finals on the 6th Aug..

06 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.55pm

Men’s Sprint Medals

Current Olympic Champion Chris Hoy Great Britain

Current World Champion Gregory Bauge France

Current British National Champion Chris Hoy

World Record Time 9.572 by Kevin Sireau in Moscow 2009

Gold Jason Kenny Great Britain

Silver Gregory Bauge France

Bronze Shane Perkins Australia

Women’s Omnium Flying Lap

Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the first round of the women’s omnium.

Women’s Omnium 20Km Points Race

Poland’s Malgorzata Wojtyra wins the second round of the women’s omnium.

Women’s Omnium Elimination Race

Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the third round of the women’s omnium.

Women’s Sprint 1/4th Finals 5-8th

Great Britain’s Victoria Pendleton progresses to the sprint semi-finals on the 7th Aug..

07 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 10.00am to 11.30am

Men’s Keirin Round 1 & Repecharges

Great Britain’s Sir Chris Hoy wins round one, heat one to progress to the final.

Women’s Omnium 3Km Individual Pursuit

American Sarah Hammer wins round four of the women’s omnium.

07 August 2012 – The Olympic Park Velodrome – 16.00pm to 18.00pm

Men’s Keirin Medals

Current Olympic Champion Chris Hoy Great Britain

Current World Champion Chris Hoy Great Britain

Current British National Champion Chris Hoy

Gold Sir Chris Hoy Great Britain

Silver Maxilian Levi Germany

Bronze Simon Van Velthooven New Zealand

Bronze Teun Mulder Netherlands

Women’s Omnium 10Km Scratch Race

American Sarah Hammer wins round five of the women’s omnium.

Women’s 500m Individual Time Trial

Great Britain’s Laura Trott wins the final round of the women’s omnium in a time of 35.110

World Omnium champion, Twenty year old Laura Trott, just manages to win the omnium event. Her closest rival Sarah Hammer had one less point in the event and lost out, due to her fourth place finish in the final round. This gave Laura one whole point less in the competition and the top placed athlete.

Women’s Omnium Medals

Current Olympic Champion None

Current World Champion Laura Trott Great Britain

Current British National Champion None

Gold Laura Trott Great Britain

Silver Sarah Hammer USA

Bronze Annette Edmundson Australia

Women’s Sprint Medals

Current Olympic Champion Victoria Pendleton Great Britain

Current World Champion Victoria Pendleton Great Britain

Current British National Champion Rebecca James

World Record Time 10.643 by Miriam Welte atColoradoSpringsUSAJune 2012

Gold Anna Meares Australia

Silver Victoria Pendleton Great Britain

Bronze Shuang Gou China

Close of Track Cycling Events

Ten of each of the medals, were on offer, for the 2012 London Olympics. Five for the Men and Five for the Women…

Great Britain topped the Track Cycling medal table with 7 gold medals, 1 silver and 1 bronze.

Australia are the second highest, with 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal, and 3 bronze medals.

Germanyare the third highest, with 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal.

Denmark are the only other country to win a gold medal, their only track cycling medal

The only discipline that Great Britain didn’t medal in, was the womens team sprint.

Close of Track Cycling Events

Close of Track Cycling Events

BMX Bike Cycling

BMX Finals Women

10 August 2012 – The Olympic Park, BMX Track – 16.30pm to 16.35pm

Gold Mariana Pajon Columbia

Silver Sarah Walker New Zealand

Bronze Laura Smulders Netherlands

4th Laetitia le Corguille France

5th Caroline Buchanan Australia

6th Shanaze Reade Great Britain

7th Magalie Pottier France

8th Brooke Crain USA

Great Britain’s Shanaze Reade finished 6th in the final race of the event.

Shanaze has expressed interest in switching cycling disciplines to the track, maybe filling Victoria Pendleton’s position in the Team Sprint and joining Jessica Varnish. She has already rode in this event along with Pendleton with great success. Only time will tell.

BMX Finals Men

10 August 2012 – The Olympic Park, BMX Track – 16.40pm to 16.45pm

Gold Maris Strombergs Latvia

Silver Sam Willoughby Australia

Bronze Mario Carlos Oquendo Zabala Columbia

4th Raymon van der Biezen Netherlands

5th Twan van Gendt Netherlands

6th Eduardo Andres Jimenez Ciacedo Columbia

7th Connor Fields USA

8th Liam Phillips Great Britain

Great Britain’s Liam Phillips finished 8th in the final heat after crashing during the race.

Close of BMX Biking Events

CrossCountryMountainBike Cycling

Mountain Bike Women

11 August 2012 – Hadleigh Farm, Essex – 12.30 pm to 14.15pm

Gold Julie Bresset France

Silver Sabine Spitz Germany

Bronze Georgia Gould USA

4th Irina Kalentieva Russia

5th Esther Suss Switzerland

6th Alexandra Engen Sweden

7th Aleksandra Dawidowicz Poland

8th Annie Last Great Britain

9th Catharine Pendrel Canada

10th Tanja Zakelj Slovenia

Great Britain’s Annie Last finished eighth in her first Olympics. She led in the early stages of the race from time to time, but slipped back as the pace increased.

The course was hard going, dry, hot and technical in places. Most girl’s opted for a front suspension only bike, pumped up to the maximum.Tyre choice would of been a medium tread depth to aid traction and speed over the gravelly, rocky, terrain.

American Georgia Gould fought hard to stay in contention of a medal position, and is one of the youngest competitors in the field.

Mountain Bike Men

12 August 2012 – Hadleigh Farm, Essex – 13.30pm to 15.15pm

Gold Jaroslav Kulhavy CzechRepublic

Silver Nino Schurter Switzerland

Bronze Aurelio Marco Fontana Italy

4th Jose Hermida Spain

5th Burry Stander South Africa

6th Carlos Nicolas Coloma Spain

7th Manuel Fumic Germany

8th Geoff Kabush Canada

9th Alexander Gehbauer Austria

10th Todd Wells USA

Great Britain’s Liam Killeen crashed out of the Mountain Bike race in a heavy fall on Deane’s Drop. It has been confirmed that he has sustained a broken ankle.

French number one, and Olympic favourite Julien Absalon abandons after a puncture.