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.
Close of Mountain Biking Events
Close of Cycling Events
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