Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Cycling

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Piraeus , Athens , marathon
Competition venue	Velodrome Neo Faliro Athens - Marathon
Nations	5
Athletes	19 (19 )
date	April 8-13, 1896
decisions	6th
Paris 1900 →

At the I Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , six cycling competitions were held. Five of the competitions took place in the Velodrome Neo Faliro .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country			3.	total
1	France	4th	1	1	6th
2	Greece	1	3	-	4th
3	Austria	1	-	2	3
4th	Great Britain	-	1	1	2
5	German Empire	-	1	-	1

Medalist

Men

competitor	silver	bronze	Third
Road cycling
Road racing	Aristidis Konstantinidis	August Gödrich	Edward Battel
Track cycling
sprint	Paul Masson	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Léon Flameng
333 ⅓ m time trial	Paul Masson	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Adolf Schmal
10 km	Paul Masson	Léon Flameng	Adolf Schmal
100 km	Léon Flameng	Georgios Kolettis	not forgiven
12 hour race	Adolf Schmal	Frederick Keeping	not forgiven

Results men

train

333 ⅓ m time trial

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / cycling - track time trial (men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Paul Masson	24.0 s
2	GRE	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	25.4 s
3	AUT	Adolf Schmal	26.6 s

Sprint (2000 m)

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Cycling - Sprint Track (Men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Paul Masson	4: 58.2 min
2	GRE	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	5: 00.2 min
3	FRA	Léon Flameng	k. A.
4th	GER	Josef Rosemeyer	k. A.

10 km

→ Main article : Summer Olympics 1896 / cycling - 10 km track (men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Paul Masson	17: 54.2 min ( OR )
2	FRA	Léon Flameng	17: 54.2 min
3	AUT	Adolf Schmal	k. A.
4th	GER	Josef Rosemeyer	k. A.
-	GRE	Georgios Kolettis	Abandonment after a fall
-	GRE	Aristidis Konstantinidis	Abandonment after a fall

Flameng (left) and Masson

100 km

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 1896 / cycling - 100 km track (men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Léon Flameng	3:08:19.2 h
2	GRE	Georgios Kolettis	2000 meters behind
-	GBR	Edward Battel	task
-	GRE	Aristidis Konstantinidis	task
-	GRE	Georgios Aspiotis	task
-	AUT	Adolf Schmal	task
-	GER	Josef Rosemeyer	task
-	GER	Joseph Welzenbacher	task
-	GER	Bernard Knubel	task

12 hour race

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Cycling - 12-hour race (men)

space	country	athlete	distance
1	AUT	Adolf Schmal	314.997 km
2	GBR	Frederick Keeping	314.664 km

Adolf Schmal described the course of the rather monotonous race that was carried out with a pacemaker in his memoirs How I lost an Olympic laurel - and won one . Then he used the early morning hours and the growing reluctance of his competitors to gain a lap advantage, which he was able to defend until the finish line. After only Schmal and Keeping could hope for a win, both agreed to take a break.

Street

Road race (87 km)

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Cycling - road racing (men)

space	country	athlete	time
1	GRE	Aristidis Konstantinidis	3:22:31 h
2	GER	August Gödrich	3:42:18 h
3	GBR	Edward Battel	k. A.
4th	GRE	Konstantinos Konstantinou	k. A.
5	GRE	Georgios Aspiotis	k. A.
6th	GRE	Miltiadis Iatrou	k. A.

The road race was held on the route from Athens to the marathon and back. After Konstantinidis had broken down twice on the way back to Athens, he borrowed the bike of a spectator standing by the route and covered the final kilometers with it.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 39.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 1896 / cycling in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )