2008 Summer Olympics / Triathlon - Singles (Men)

sport	Triathlon
discipline	singles
gender	Men
Attendees	55 athletes from 31 nations
Competition location	Ming Tombs Reservoir
Competition phase	August 19, 2008
Winning time	1: 48: 53.28 h
Medalist  Jan Frodeno ( GER )  Simon Whitfield ( CAN )  Bevan Docherty ( NZL )
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Triathlon competitions at the 2008 Olympic Games
singles	Women	Men

The Triathlon of men in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was held on 19 August 2008 at the Ming Tombs Reservoir in the Ming Tombs instead.

The race started with a 1.5 km swim in the reservoir, which had a water temperature of 27.2 ° C. After swimming, I switched to cycling on the south-eastern shore of the lake, which had to cover 40 kilometers. At the end, the athletes had to go through a 2.5 long circuit four times.

Race course

The start took place at 10 a.m. local time. At this time, the outside temperature was almost 30 ° C and the humidity was already 82 percent. After swimming, New Zealander Shane Reed was the first to switch to the racing bike. After about half an hour, Alistair Brownlee from Great Britain was able to break away from the competition, but had to hand over the lead to the Canadian Collien Jenkins a little later . Halfway through the race, Belgian Peter Croes had taken the lead. Jan Frodeno from Germany, who was 25th at the time, was only eight seconds behind. Only in the last few kilometers before the last change was a trio able to break away. After first the Luxemburgish Dirk Bockel and then the Belgian Axel Zeebroek had changed, Frodeno reached the transition area in fourth. Towards the end of the second of four laps, a leading group of six athletes was formed, including Frodeno. On the last lap, New Zealander Bevan Docherty , Javier Gómez from Spain and Jan Frodeno were able to break away from the group of six and it seemed as if these three would make up the medal ranks among themselves. However, the Canadian Simon Whitfield fought his way up to the group again and started the final sprint in the last meters, only Frodeno could keep up with Whitfield and won against the Canadian in the final sprint for the gold medal. Docherty secured bronze, while Gómez missed a medal with fourth place.

Results

• There was no start number 13
• The total time also includes the changeover times.

rank	#	athlete	nation	swim	To go biking	To run	total	deficit
				Time (min)	Time (min)	Time (min)	Time (h)	Time (min)
1	32	Jan Frodeno	Germany	18:14	59:01	30:46	1: 48: 53.28
2	16	Simon Whitfield	Canada	18:18	58:56	30:48	1: 48: 58.47	+0: ​​05.19
3	27	Bevan Docherty	New Zealand	18:23	58:51	30:57	1: 49: 05.59	+0: ​​12.31
4th	30th	Javier Gomez Noya	Spain	18:08	59:06	31:03	1: 49: 13.92	+0: ​​20.64
5	31	Iván Raña	Spain	18:22	58:52	31:14	1: 49: 22.03	+0: ​​28.75
6th	34	Daniel Unger	Germany	18:25	58:49	31:35	1: 49: 43.78	+0: ​​50.50
7th	21st	Hunter Kemper	United States	18:04	59:06	31:40	1: 49: 48.75	+0: ​​55.47
8th	41	Rasmus Henning	Denmark	18:18	58:57	31:48	1: 49: 57.47	+1: 04.19
9	26th	Igor Syssoyev	Russia	18:02	59:15	31:41	1: 49: 59.38	+1: 06.10
10	38	Frédéric Belaubre	France	18:03	59:11	31:48	1: 50: 00.30	+1: 07.02
11	11	Courtney Atkinson	Australia	18:06	59:08	32:00	1: 50: 10.02	+1: 16.74
12	35	Alistair Brownlee	Great Britain	18:11	59:05	32:07	1: 50: 19.62	+1: 26.34
13	18th	Axel Zeebroek	Belgium	18:30	57:48	33:15	1: 50: 30.90	+1: 37.62
14th	36	William Clarke	Great Britain	18:53	58:23	32:18	1: 50: 32.07	+1: 38.79
15th	33	Christian Prochnow	Germany	18:23	58:56	32:21	1: 50: 33.90	+1: 40.62
16	12	Brad Kahlefeldt	Australia	18:17	58:56	32:26	1: 50: 36.00	+1: 42.72
17th	54	Bruno Pais	Portugal	18:28	58:47	32:32	1: 50: 40.22	+1: 46.94
18th	23	Jarrod Shoemaker	United States	18:19	59:03	32:27	1: 50: 46.39	+1: 53.11
19th	44	Olivier Marceau	Switzerland	18:55	58:18	32:37	1: 50: 50.07	+1: 56.79
20th	42	Filip Ospalý	Czech Republic	18:17	58:56	32:41	1: 50: 53.69	+2: 00.41
21st	52	Danylo Sapunov	Kazakhstan	18:11	59:05	32:42	1: 50: 58.98	+2: 05.70
22nd	25th	Dmitri Polyansky	Russia	18:15	59:07	32:53	1: 51: 11.61	+2: 18.33
23	45	Sven Riederer	Switzerland	18:14	58:52	33:11	1: 51: 19.45	+2: 26.17
24	24	Alexander Bryukhankov	Russia	18:10	59:08	33:01	1: 51: 22.59	+2: 29.31
25th	55	Dirk Bockel	Luxembourg	18:26	57:52	34:19	1: 51: 31.01	+2: 37.73
26th	8th	Juraci Moreira	Brazil	18:24	58:50	33:22	1: 51: 35.57	+2: 42.29
27	17th	Peter Croes	Belgium	18:26	58:51	33:25	1: 51: 40.94	+2: 47.66
28	15th	Paul Tichelaar	Canada	18:24	58:51	33:34	1: 51: 46.81	+2: 53.53
29	43	Reto Hug	Switzerland	18:55	58:20	33:53	1: 52: 04.93	+3: 11.65
30th	6th	Ryosuke Yamamoto	Japan	18:27	58:53	33:56	1: 52: 11.98	+3: 18.70
31	2	Sander Berk	Netherlands	18:13	59:06	33:57	1: 52: 18.09	+3: 24.81
32	22nd	Matthew Reed	United States	18:25	58:48	34:19	1: 52: 30.44	+3: 37.16
33	10	Daniel Fontana	Italy	18:22	58:55	34:26	1: 52: 39.21	+3: 45.93
34	29	Shane Reed	New Zealand	18:00	59:19	34:34	1: 52: 48.16	+3: 54.88
35	19th	Volodymyr Polikarpenko	Ukraine	18:23	58:58	34:32	1: 52: 51.74	+3: 58.46
36	40	Laurent Vidal	France	18:49	58:24	34:51	1: 53: 02.79	+4: 09.51
37	7th	Reinaldo Colucci	Brazil	18:52	58:28	34:56	1: 53: 13.94	+4: 20.66
38	47	Simon Ágoston	Austria	18:20	59:00	35:02	1: 53: 23.98	+4: 30.70
39	28	Kris Gemmell	New Zealand	18:41	58:34	35:42	1: 53: 49.47	+4: 56.19
40	9	Emilio D'Aquino	Italy	18:22	58:56	35:43	1: 53: 58.22	+5: 04.94
41	4th	Marko Albert	Estonia	18:09	59:12	35:54	1: 54: 13.58	+5: 20.30
42	20th	Chris Felgate	Zimbabwe	18:21	59:00	36:09	1: 54: 31.61	+5: 38.33
43	50	Daniel Chi Wo Lee	Hong Kong	18:54	58:24	36:22	1: 54: 40.78	+5: 47.50
44	3	Francisco Serrano	Mexico	18:56	58:08	36:42	1: 54: 46.09	+5: 52.81
45	53	Duarte Marques	Portugal	18:20	59:06	36:47	1: 55: 06.57	+6: 13.29
46	56	Wang Daqing	China	18:06	59:15	37:17	1: 55: 41.87	+6: 48.59
47	51	Csaba Kuttor	Hungary	18:09	59:13	37:27	1: 55: 53.38	+7: 00.10
48	5	Hirokatsu Tayama	Japan	18:04	59:12	37:58	1: 56: 13.68	+7: 20.40
49	48	Omar Tayara	Syria	18:23	58:56	38:19	1: 56: 40.54	+7: 47.26
50	14th	Colin Jenkins	Canada	18:12	58:59	38:39	1: 56: 50.85	+7: 57.57
	39	Tony Moulai	France	18:27	58:49	DNF	DNF
	37	Tim Don	Great Britain	18:54	LAP
	49	Marek Jaskolka	Poland	18:55	LAP
	1	Andrei Glushchenko	Ukraine	18:59	LAP
	46	Pavel Šimko	Slovakia	DNF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Frodeno wins triathlon gold for Germany. In: Der Spiegel . German Press Agency , August 19, 2008, accessed on February 24, 2020 .