1996 Summer Olympics / Cycling

Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Atlanta
Competition venue	Stone Mountain Velodrome Georgia International Horse Park Buckhead Cycling Course
Nations	68
Athletes	477 (366 , 111 )
date	July 21-28, 1996
decisions	14th
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the US metropolis , 14 cycling competitions were held.

Men

train

sprint

space	athlete	country	Points
1	Jens Fiedler	GER	2-0
2	Marty Nothstein	United States	0: 2
3	Curt Harnett	CAN	2-0

1000 m time trial

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Florian Rousseau	1: 02.712 min
2	United States	Erin Hartwell	1: 02.940 min
3	JPN	Takanobu Jumonji	1: 03.261 min

4000 m single pursuit

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Andrea Collinelli	4: 20.893 min
2	FRA	Philippe Ermenault	4: 22.714 min
3	OUT	Bradley McGee	4: 26.121 min

The reigning vice world champion Andrea Collinelli from Italy had set a new world record in qualifying with 4: 19.699 minutes, which he then improved to 4: 19.153 minutes in the quarter-finals. With his slightly weaker final time, he stayed at the Olympic competitions three times below the old record of 4: 20.894 min of the Briton Graeme Obree , who had failed as world champion in the qualification.

Points race (50 km)

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ITA	Silvio Martinello	37
2	CAN	Brian Walton	29
3	OUT	Stuart O'Grady	27

4000 m team pursuit

space	country	Athletes	time
1	FRA	Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	4: 05.930 min
2	RUS	Eduard Gritsun Nikolai Kuznetsov Alexei Markov Anton Schantyr	4: 07.730 min
3	OUT	Brett Aitken Stuart O'Grady Tim O'Shannessey Dean Woods	k. A.

Street

Road race (222 km)

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space	country	athlete	time
1	SUI	Pascal Richard	4:53:56 h
2	THE	Rolf Sørensen	4:53:56 h
3	GBR	Maximilian Sciandri	4:53:58 h

Individual time trial (52.2 km)

space	country	athlete	time
1	ESP	Miguel Induráin	1:04:05 h
2	ESP	Abraham Olano	1:04:17 h
3	GBR	Chris Boardman	1:04:36 h

Mountain bike

Cross Country (47.7 km)

space	country	athlete	time
1	NED	Bart Brentjens	2:17:38 h
2	SUI	Thomas Frischknecht	2:20:13 h
3	FRA	Miguel Martinez	2:20:36 h

Women

train

sprint

space	country	Athlete
1	FRA	Félicia Ballanger
2	OUT	Michelle Ferris
3	NED	Ingrid Haringa

3000 m individual pursuit

space	country	Athlete	time
1	ITA	Antonella Bellutti	3: 33.595 min
2	FRA	Marion Clignet	3: 38.571 min
3	GER	Judith Arndt	3: 38.744 min

Points race (26 km)

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	FRA	Nathalie Lancien	24
2	NED	Ingrid Haringa	23
3	OUT	Lucy Tyler-Sharman	17th

Street

Road race (104 km)

space	country	Athlete	time
1	FRA	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	2:36:13 h
2	ITA	Imelda Chiappa	2:36:38 h
3	CAN	Clara Hughes	2:36:44 h

Individual time trial (26.1 km)

space	country	Athlete	time
1	RUS	Sulphia Sabirova	36:40 min
2	FRA	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	37:00 min
3	CAN	Clara Hughes	37:13 min

Mountain bike

Cross Country (31.8 km)

space	country	Athlete	time
1	ITA	Paola Pezzo	1:50:51 h
2	CAN	Alison Sydor	1:51:58 h
3	United States	Susan DeMattei	1:52:36 h

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 1996 / cycling in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )