Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's cross-country
| Men's cross-country at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Laoshan Mountain Bike Course | ||||||||||||
| Dates | August 23, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 50 from 33 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:55:59 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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Road cycling | ||
| Road race | men | women |
| Time trial | men | women |
Track cycling | ||
| Individual pursuit | men | women |
| Team pursuit | men | |
| Sprint | men | women |
| Team sprint | men | |
| Points race | men | women |
| Keirin | men | |
| Madison | men | |
Mountain biking | ||
| Cross-country | men | women |
BMX | ||
| BMX | men | women |
The men's cross-country mountain biking at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course on August 23, 2008.
France's Julien Absalon pulled away from a pack of mountain bikers at the start to defend his Olympic title in the event with a gold-medal time in 1:55:59.[1][2] Absalon also enjoyed his teammate Jean-Christophe Péraud taking home the silver in 1:57:06, as the Frenchmen climbed on top of the podium with a spectacular 1–2 finish.[3] Meanwhile, Switzerland's Nino Schurter delivered an exciting sprint challenge for the bronze in 1:57:52, edging out his teammate, three-time Olympian and reigning world champion Christoph Sauser by two seconds.[4][5] Among the 50 mountain bikers who competed in the cross-country race, only twenty-eight of them managed to complete the full distance.
Contents
1 Competition format
2 Schedule
3 Results
4 References
Competition format
The competition began at 15:00 with a mass-start in which riders are positioned according to their current world ranking so that the higher-ranked riders are near the front. The cross-country race also involved eight laps, with 172 m of elevation change for each, around the 4.45 km course at Laoshan Mountain Bike Course.[6] The overall distance of the race was 35.60 km.
Schedule
All times are China standard time (UTC+8)[7]
| Date | Time | Round |
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| Saturday, 23 August 2008 | 15:00 | Final |
Results
| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
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 | Julien Absalon |  France | 1:55:59 |
 | Jean-Christophe Péraud | France | 1:57:06 |
 | Nino Schurter |  Switzerland | 1:57:52 |
| 4 | Christoph Sauser | Switzerland | 1:57:54 |
| 5 | Marco Aurelio Fontana |  Italy | 1:59:59 |
| 6 | Christoph Soukup |  Austria | 2:00:11 |
| 7 | Liam Killeen |  Great Britain | 2:00:14 |
| 8 | Iñaki Lejarreta |  Spain | 2:00:21 |
| 9 | Sven Nys |  Belgium | 2:01:00 |
| 10 | José Antonio Hermida | Spain | 2:01:01 |
| 11 | Manuel Fumic |  Germany | 2:01:16 |
| 12 | Oliver Beckingsale | Great Britain | 2:01:25 |
| 13 | Marek Galiński |  Poland | 2:01:29 |
| 14 | Cédric Ravanel | France | 2:01:38 |
| 15 | Burry Stander |  South Africa | 2:01:58 |
| 16 | Moritz Milatz | Germany | 2:02:59 |
| 17 | Fredrik Kessiakoff |  Sweden | 2:03:09 |
| 18 | Jaroslav Kulhavý |  Czech Republic | 2:03:20 |
| 19 | Roel Paulissen | Belgium | 2:03:30 |
| 20 | Geoff Kabush |  Canada | 2:03:55 |
| 21 | Rubens Donizete |  Brazil | 2:05:19 |
| 22 | Ji Jianhua |  China | 2:05:29 |
| 23 | András Parti |  Hungary | 2:06:00 |
| 24 | Kashi Leuchs |  New Zealand | 2:06:30 |
| 25 | Jakob Fuglsang |  Denmark | 2:06:41 |
| 26 | Héctor Páez |  Colombia | 2:06:46 |
| 27 | Dario Alejandro Gasco |  Argentina | 2:07:04 |
| 28 | Carlos Coloma Nicolás | Spain | 2:09:05 |
| 29 | Adam Craig |  United States | LAP (1 lap) |
| 30 | Yader Zoli | Italy | LAP (1 lap) |
| 31 | Klaus Nielsen | Denmark | LAP (1 lap) |
| 32 | Filip Meirhaeghe | Belgium | LAP (2 laps) |
| 33 | Wolfram Kurschat | Germany | LAP (2 laps) |
| 34 | Rudi van Houts |  Netherlands | LAP (2 laps) |
| 35 | Bilal Akgül |  Turkey | LAP (2 laps) |
| 36 | Cristóbal Silva |  Chile | LAP (2 laps) |
| 37 | Bart Brentjens | Netherlands | LAP (2 laps) |
| 38 | Emil Lindgren | Sweden | LAP (2 laps) |
| 39 | Daniel McConnell |  Australia | LAP (2 laps) |
| 40 | Chan Chun Hing |  Hong Kong | LAP (2 laps) |
| 41 | Yury Trofimov |  Russia | LAP (2 laps) |
| 42 | Sergiy Rysenko |  Ukraine | LAP (3 laps) |
| 43 | Todd Wells | United States | LAP (3 laps) |
| 44 | Seamus McGrath | Canada | LAP (3 laps) |
| 45 | Mannie Heymans |  Namibia | LAP (3 laps) |
| 46 | Kohei Yamamoto |  Japan | LAP (3 laps) |
| 47 | Federico Ramírez |  Costa Rica | LAP (5 laps) |
| 48 | Antipass Kwari |  Zimbabwe | LAP (6 laps) |
| Florian Vogel | Switzerland | DNF | |
| Robin Seymour |  Ireland | DNF |
References
^ "Absalon secures men's mountain bike gold". ABC News Australia. 23 August 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Americans lapped as France's Absalon defends gold". USA Today. 1 September 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
^ "French cyclists on top of the mountain". France 24. 24 August 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
^ "Fourth Olympic bronze for Switzerland". Swissinfo. 23 August 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
^ Jones, Rob (23 August 2008). "French dominate the rest of the World". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
^ "Mountain Biking Competition Format". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
^ "Mountain Biking: Results and Schedules". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
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