Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Cycling - Time Trial Track (Men)

sport	Cycling
discipline	333 ⅓ m time trial (track cycling)
gender	Men
Attendees	8 athletes from 5 countries
Competition location	Velodrome Neo Faliro
Competition phase	April 11, 1896
Winning time	24.0 s
Medalist not forgiven  Paul Masson ( FRA )  Stamatios Nikolopoulos ( GRE )
1928 →

Cycling competitions at the 1896 Olympic Games
Road cycling
Road racing	Men
Track cycling
Individual time trial	Men
sprint	Men
10 km	Men
100 km	Men
12 hour race	Men

The first men's Olympic individual time trial over 333 ⅓ m at the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 took place on April 11, 1896. It was the fourth cycling race of the Games. It was the only time in Olympic history that a time trial was held over the distance of 333 ⅓ m, when the time trial was resumed in the competition program at the Olympic Games in 1928 , the competition was held over the distance of one kilometer.

Olympic champion was the French Paul Masson . On the same day, he also won the sprint and the 10 km race . Bronze won Stamatios Nikolopoulos , who was initially at the same time as the Austrian Adolf Schmal and prevailed in an additional race.

Results

rank	athlete	nation	time	annotation
1	Paul Masson	France	24.0 s
2	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Greece	26.0 s	Race-off
3	Adolf Schmal	Austria	26.0 s	Race-off
4th	Edward Battel	Great Britain	26.5 s
5	Frederick Keeping	Great Britain	27.0 s
5	Theodor Leupold	German Empire	27.0 s
5	Léon Flameng	France	27.0 s
8th	Joseph Rosemeyer	German Empire	27.5 s

Race-off

rank	athlete	nation	time
2	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Greece	25.4 s
3	Adolf Schmal	Austria	26.6 s

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