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

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

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


caption =
venue = Laoshan Mountain Bike Course
dates = August 23
competitors = 50
nations = TBD
gold = Julien Absalon
goldNOC = FRA
silver = Jean-Christophe Péraud
silverNOC = FRA
bronze = Nino Schurter
bronzeNOC = SUI
win_value = 1:55:59
prev = 2004
next =

The men's cross-country at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on August 23 at the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course. [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/CM_2008-08-23.shtml]

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

Medalists

Final classification

Did not finish

Two riders abandoned the race, and twenty were lapped on the course and made to stop.
*flagIOCathlete|Robin Seymour|IRL|2008 Summer (abandoned on the second lap)
*flagIOCathlete|Florian Vogel|SUI|2008 Summer (abandoned on the fifth lap)
*flagIOCathlete|Antipass Kwari|ZIM|2008 Summer (lapped with six laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Federico Ramirez|CRC|2008 Summer (lapped with five laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Kohei Yamamoto|JPN|2008 Summer (lapped with three laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Mannie Heymans|NAM|2008 Summer (lapped with three laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Seamus McGrath|CAN|2008 Summer (lapped with three laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Todd Wells|USA|2008 Summer (lapped with three laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Sergii Rysenko|UKR|2008 Summer (lapped with three laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Yury Trofimov|RUS|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Chun Hing Chan|HKG|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Daniel McConnell|AUS|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Emil Lindgren|SWE|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Bart Brentjens|NED|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Cristobal Silva|CHI|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Bilal Akgul|TUR|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Rudi van Houts|NED|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Wolfram Kurschat|GER|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Filip Meirhaeghe|BEL|2008 Summer (lapped with two laps to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Klaus Nielsen|DEN|2008 Summer (lapped with one lap to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Yader Zoli|ITA|2008 Summer (lapped with one lap to go)
*flagIOCathlete|Adam Craig|USA|2008 Summer (lapped with one lap to go)

References


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