Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics had 18 events in three disciplines:

• Road cycling, held at the Athens historic centre (start and finish at Kotzia Square, for the road race events) and in Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre (for the time trial events).
• Track cycling, held at the Olympic Velodrome.
• Mountain biking, held at the Parnitha Olympic Mountain Bike Venue.

In total, 464 cyclists participated, of which 334 men and 130 women, from 61 countries. The youngest participant was Ignatas Konovalovas, at 18 years, while the oldest was Jeannie Longo, at 45 years. The most successful contestant became Bradley Wiggins, who won three medals, one gold, one silver and one bronze.^[1]

After the race, it was announced that Tyler Hamilton, the winner of the men's time trial, had had a positive doping test, but because the backup sample was frozen, further tests could not be done, and the results stayed as they were. In May 2011, Hamilton confessed that he had used doping products, and gave back his gold medal. The other cyclists have as of May 2011 not yet been upgraded.

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race details	Paolo Bettini Italy (ITA)	Sérgio Paulinho Portugal (POR)	Axel Merckx Belgium (BEL)
Women's road race details	Sara Carrigan Australia (AUS)	Judith Arndt Germany (GER)	Olga Slyusareva Russia (RUS)
Men's time trial details	Tyler Hamilton United States (USA)	Viatcheslav Ekimov Russia (RUS)	Bobby Julich United States (USA)
Women's time trial details	Leontien van Moorsel Netherlands (NED)	Deirdre Demet-Barry United States (USA)	Karin Thürig Switzerland (SUI)

Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual pursuit details	Bradley Wiggins Great Britain (GBR)	Brad McGee Australia (AUS)	Sergi Escobar Spain (ESP)
Women's individual pursuit details	Sarah Ulmer New Zealand (NZL)	Katie Mactier Australia (AUS)	Leontien van Moorsel Netherlands (NED)
Men's team pursuit details	Australia (AUS) Graeme Brown Brett Lancaster Brad McGee Luke Roberts	Great Britain (GBR) Steve Cummings Rob Hayles Paul Manning Bradley Wiggins	Spain (ESP) Carlos Castaño Sergi Escobar Asier Maeztu Carlos Torrent
Men's individual sprint details	Ryan Bayley Australia (AUS)	Theo Bos Netherlands (NED)	René Wolff Germany (GER)
Women's individual sprint details	Lori-Ann Muenzer Canada (CAN)	Tamilla Abassova Russia (RUS)	Anna Meares Australia (AUS)
Men's team sprint details	Germany (GER) Jens Fiedler Stefan Nimke René Wolff	Japan (JPN) Toshiaki Fushimi Masaki Inoue Tomohiro Nagatsuka	France (FRA) Mickaël Bourgain Laurent Gané Arnaud Tournant
Women's 500 m time trial details	Anna Meares Australia (AUS)	Jiang Yonghua China (CHN)	Natallia Tsylinskaya Belarus (BLR)
Men's 1 km time trial details	Chris Hoy Great Britain (GBR)	Arnaud Tournant France (FRA)	Stefan Nimke Germany (GER)
Men's points race details	Mikhail Ignatiev Russia (RUS)	Joan Llaneras Spain (ESP)	Guido Fulst Germany (GER)
Women's points race details	Olga Slyusareva Russia (RUS)	Belem Guerrero Méndez Mexico (MEX)	María Luisa Calle Colombia (COL)
Men's Keirin details	Ryan Bayley Australia (AUS)	José Antonio Escuredo Spain (ESP)	Shane Kelly Australia (AUS)
Men's Madison details	Australia (AUS) Graeme Brown Stuart O'Grady	Switzerland (SUI) Franco Marvulli Bruno Risi	Great Britain (GBR) Rob Hayles Bradley Wiggins

Mountain biking

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's cross-country details	Julien Absalon France (FRA)	José Antonio Hermida Spain (ESP)	Bart Brentjens Netherlands (NED)
Women's cross-country details	Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå Norway (NOR)	Marie-Hélène Prémont Canada (CAN)	Sabine Spitz Germany (GER)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	6	2	2	10
2	Russia (RUS)	2	2	1	5
3	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	1	4
4	Germany (GER)	1	1	4	6
5	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
6	United States (USA)	1	1	1	3
	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
8	Canada (CAN)	1	1	0	2
9	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
12	Spain (ESP)	0	3	2	5
13	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
14	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Colombia (COL)	0	0	1	1

References

• Official Olympic Report

1. ^ Sports-reference on Cycling at the 2004 Athina Summer Games