Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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

Cycling
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
The Dunc Gray Velodrome
VenuesWestern Sydney Parklands
Sydney and surrounding area
Dunc Gray Velodrome
Date16 September - 20 September
Competitors462 from 55 nations

Road cycling
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race
 Jan Ullrich
 Germany		 Alexander Vinokourov
 Kazakhstan		 Andreas Klöden
 Germany
Men's time trial
 Viatcheslav Ekimov
 Russia		 Jan Ullrich
 Germany		 Vacated[2]
Women's road race
 Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands		 Hanka Kupfernagel
 Germany		 Diana Žiliūtė
 Lithuania
Women's time trial
 Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands		 Mari Holden
 United States		 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli
 France

Track cycling

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Keirin
 Florian Rousseau
 France		 Gary Neiwand
 Australia		 Jens Fiedler
 Germany
Madison
  Australia (AUS)
Brett Aitken
Scott McGrory		  Belgium (BEL)
Etienne De Wilde
Matthew Gilmore		  Italy (ITA)
Silvio Martinello
Marco Villa
Points race
 Juan Llaneras
 Spain		 Milton Wynants
 Uruguay		 Alexey Markov
 Russia
Individual pursuit
 Robert Bartko
 Germany		 Jens Lehmann
 Germany		 Bradley McGee
 Australia
Team pursuit
 Germany (GER)
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann
Olaf Pollack		  Ukraine (UKR)
Sergiy Chernyavsky
Sergiy Matveyev
Alexander Symonenko
Oleksandr Fedenko		  Great Britain (GBR)
Paul Manning
Chris Newton
Bryan Steel
Bradley Wiggins
Jon Clay
Rob Hayles
Individual sprint
 Marty Nothstein
 United States		 Florian Rousseau
 France		 Jens Fiedler
 Germany
Team sprint
  France (FRA)
Florian Rousseau
Arnaud Tournant
Laurent Gané		  Great Britain (GBR)
Chris Hoy
Craig MacLean
Jason Queally		  Australia (AUS)
Gary Neiwand
Sean Eadie
Darryn Hill
Time trial
 Jason Queally
 Great Britain		 Stefan Nimke
 Germany		 Shane Kelly
 Australia

Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Points race
 Antonella Bellutti
 Italy		 Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands		 Olga Slioussareva
 Russia
pursuit
 Leontien Zijlaard
 Netherlands		 Marion Clignet
 France		 Yvonne McGregor
 Great Britain
Sprint
 Félicia Ballanger
 France		 Oksana Grishina
 Russia		 Iryna Yanovych
 Ukraine
time trial
 Félicia Ballanger
 France		 Michelle Ferris
 Australia		 Jiang Cuihua
 China

Mountain biking
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
Miguel Martinez
 France		 Filip Meirhaeghe
 Belgium		 Christoph Sauser
 Switzerland
Women's
Paola Pezzo
 Italy		 Barbara Blatter
 Switzerland		 Margarita Fullana
 Spain

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France (FRA)5218
2 Germany (GER)34310
3 Netherlands (NED)3104
4 Italy (ITA)2013
5 Australia (AUS)1236
6 Great Britain (GBR)1124
 Russia (RUS)1124
8 United States (USA)1102
9 Spain (ESP)1012
10 Belgium (BEL)0202
11 Switzerland (SUI)0112
 Ukraine (UKR)0112
13 Kazakhstan (KAZ)0101
 Uruguay (URU)0101
15 China (CHN)0011
 Lithuania (LTU)0011
Totals (16 nations)18181753

Records broken
See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2000 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling
Event Name Nation Score Date Record
Men's 1 km time trialJason QueallyGreat Britain1'01"60916 SeptemberOR
Men's individual pursuitRobert BartkoGermany4'18"97216 SeptemberOR
Robert BartkoGermany4'18"51516 SeptemberOR
Men's team pursuitBryan Steel
Paul Manning
Bradley Wiggins
Chris Newton		Great Britain4'04"03018 SeptemberOR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann		Germany4'01"81018 SeptemberOR
Oleksandr Fedenko
Oleksandr Symonenko
Sergiy Matveyev
Sergiy Chernyavskyy		Ukraine4'00"83019 SeptemberWR, OR
Guido Fulst
Robert Bartko
Daniel Becke
Jens Lehmann		Germany3'59"71019 SeptemberWR, OR
Women's 500 m time trialFelicia BallangerFrance34"14016 SeptemberOR
Women's individual pursuitLeontien ZijlaardNetherlands3'31"57017 SeptemberOR
Leontien ZijlaardNetherlands3'30"81617 SeptemberWR, OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources[3][4]

References
  1. "Cycling at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 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. They also decided not to award Spanish cyclist Abraham Olano the medal, as he had also tested positive for doping, back in 1998.
  3. "Union Cycliste Internationale - Men - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  4. "Union Cycliste Internationale - Women - Olympic Record" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
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