Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's cross-country

Infobox Olympic event
event = Women's cross-country
games = 2008 Summer


caption =
venue = Laoshan Mountain Bike Course
dates = August 23
competitors = 30
nations = 21
gold = Sabine Spitz
goldNOC = GER
silver = Maja Włoszczowska
silverNOC = POL
bronze = Irina Kalentieva
bronzeNOC = RUS
win_value = 1:45:11
prev = 2004
next =

The women's cross-country at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course on August 23 at 10:00 (UTC+8). [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/CM.shtml]

The event was a mass-start contest consisting of multiple laps around the course. Only a final was held, with the first cyclist to the finish line, after six laps of the course, being the winner. Cyclists who were lapped finished the lap they were on, then exited the course. [http://en.beijing2008.cn/sports/cyclingmountainbike/n214431007.shtml]

Sabine Spitz (Germany) opened up a one-minute lead on the field at the end of the second lap and stayed out in front to the end to claim the gold medal. Of the 30 competitors who began the event only 18 completed the full distance.

Final classification

Did not finish

Four riders abandoned the race, and eight were lapped while on the course and therefore made to stop.

*flagIOCathlete|Tereza Huříková|CZE|2008 Summer (abandoned on the first lap)
*flagIOCathlete|Marie-Helene Premont|CAN|2008 Summer (abandoned on the second lap)
*flagIOCathlete|Margarita Fullana|ESP|2008 Summer (abandoned on the third lap)
*flagIOCathlete|Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa|NOR|2008 Summer (abandoned on the fourth lap

*flagIOCathlete|Dellys Starr|AUS|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Francisca Campos|CHI|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Janka Stevkova|SVK|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Vera Andreeva|RUS|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Yolande Speedy|RSA|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Blaza Klemencic|SLO|2008 Summer (lapped with one lap to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Rie Katayama|JPN|2008 Summer (lapped with one lap to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Jaqueline Mourao|BRA|2008 Summer (lapped with one lap to go)

References