Summer Paralympics 2016 / cycling
Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics | |
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venue | Rio de Janeiro |
Competition venue |
Rio Olympic Velodrome (track) Pontal Beach (road) |
date | 8-11 September 2016 (train) 14.-17. September 2016 (road) |
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In cycling , around 230 athletes competed in a total of 50 competitions at the 2016 Summer Paralympics , 17 on the track and 33 on the road.
The program included sprints , individual pursuits , 1000-meter time trials on the track as well as road races and individual time trials . The track competitions were held in the Rio Olympic Velodrome , the road competitions on Pontal , a peninsula near Rio.
The most successful nation was Great Britain with a total of 21 medals, including twelve gold medals. The British also provided the Games' most successful female athlete: Sarah Storey won three gold medals. Second place in the medal table was taken by Germany with a total of 15 medals. The oldest German participant, Hans-Peter Durst , won two of the gold medals in the tricycle category T. Austria placed 14th in the medal table with two silver medals, and the mixed relay of handbikers won a bronze medal for Switzerland.
The Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad had an accident on the last day of the competition . The athlete, who was missing a lower leg and was competing in the Paralympics for the second time, had a serious fall in the C4-5 road race, suffered cardiac arrest after arriving at the hospital and died shortly afterwards. There was a minute's silence for him at the graduation ceremony. It was the first death in Paralympic history.
Performance classes
The performance classes in paracycling are differentiated according to discipline:
- Cycling ( racing bike ): C1 - C5, with C1 denoting the greatest impairment
- Tandem for the visually impaired who ride with a visually impaired pilot: B.
- Handbike : H1 - H4
- Tricycle : T1 - T2
Track cycling
Men
discipline | class | time | gold | silver | bronze |
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1000 meter time trial | B. | 59.822 s | Tristan Bangma / Teun Mulder | Neil Fachie / Peter Mitchell | Kai Kruse / Stefan Nimke |
C1-3 | 1: 06.678 |
Li Zhangyu | Arnoud Nijhuis | Dreary Cernove | |
C4-5 | 1: 02.473 | Jody Cundy | Jozef Metelka | Alfonso Cabello Llamas | |
One's pursuit | B. | 4: 08.146 |
Steve Bate / Adam Duggleby | Vincent ter Schure / Timo Fransen |
Stephen de Vries / Patrick Bos |
C1 | 3: 53.970 | Li Zhangyu | Ross Wilson | Arnoud Nijhuis | |
C2 | 3: 44.553 | Liang Guihua | Tristen Chernove | Louis Rolfe | |
C3 | 3: 33.028 | David Nicholas | Joseph Berenyi | Eoghan Clifford | |
C4 | OVL | Jozef Metelka | Kyle Bridgwood | Diego German Duenas Gomez | |
C5 | 4: 24.057 |
Jehor Dementjew | Alistair Donohoe | Edwin Fabian Matiz Ruiz |
Women
discipline | class | time | gold | silver | bronze |
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Time trial | B (1 km) | 1: 06.283 min | Sophie Thornhill / Helen Scott | Larissa Klaassen / Haliegh Dolman | Jessica Gallagher / Madison Janssen |
C1-3 (500 m) | 36.908 s |
Alyda Norbruis | Amanda Reid | Song Zhenling | |
C4-5 (500 m) | 34,598 s |
Kadeena Cox | Zhou Jufang | Ruan Jianping | |
One's pursuit | B. | 3: 28.050 min | Lora Turnham / Corrine Hall | Emma Foy / Laura Thompson | Sophie Thornhill / Helen Scott |
C1-3 | OVL | Megan Giglia | Jamie Whitmore | Alyda Norbruis | |
C4 | 3: 59.407 min | Shawn Morelli | Susan Powell | Megan Fisher | |
C5 | OVL | Sarah Storey | Crystal Lane | Samantha Bosco |
Mixed competition
discipline | class | time | gold | silver | bronze |
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Team sprint | C1-5 | 49.454 |
Jon-Allan Butterworth Jody Cundy Louis Rolfe |
Liu Xinyang Wei Guoping Xie Hao |
Alfonso Cabello Llamas Amador Granados Alkorta Eduardo Santas Asensio |
Road cycling
Men
Women
discipline | class | time | gold | silver | bronze |
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Individual time trial | B. | 38: 59.22 min |
Kathy George Dunlevy / Evelyn McCrystal |
Yurie Kanuma / Mai Tanaka |
Lora Turnham / Corrine Hall |
H1-3 | 33: 44.93 min | Karen Darke | Alicia Dana | Francesca Porcellato | |
H4-5 | 31: 35.46 min | Dorothee Vieth | Andrea Eskau | Laura de Vaan | |
C1-3 | 29: 46.51 min | Alyda Norbruis | Denise Schindler | Zeng Sini | |
C4 | 29: 45.40 min | Shawn Morelli | Megan Fisher | Susan Powell | |
C5 | 27: 22 ', 42 min | Sarah Storey | Anna Harkowska | Samantha Bosco | |
T1-2 | 26: 11.40 min | Carol Cooke | Jill Walsh | Shelley Gautier | |
Road racing | B. | 1:58:02 h |
Iwona Podkoscielna / Aleksandra Teclaw |
Katie George Dunlevy / Evelyn McCrystal |
Emma Foy / Laura Thompson |
H1-4 | 1:15:56 h | Christiane Reppe | Lee Doyeon | Francesca Porcellato | |
H5 | 1:37:07 h | Andrea Eskau | Laura de Vaan | Dorothee Vieth | |
C1-3 | 1:30:14 h | Jamie Whitmore | Zeng Sini | Denise Schindler | |
C4-5 | 2:15:42 h | Sarah Storey | Anna Harkowska | Crystal Lane | |
T1-2 | 1:07:51 h | Carol Cooke | Jill Walsh | Jana Majunke |
Mixed competition
discipline | class | time | gold | silver | bronze |
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Season | H2-5 | 32:34 min |
Vittorio Podesta Luca Mazzone Alessandro Zanardi |
William Lachenauer William Groulx Oscar Sanchez |
Jean-Francois Deberg Christophe Hindricq Jonas Van De Steene |
Bids
Germany
- Women
- Kerstin Brachtendorf , Andrea Eskau , Jana Majunke , Christiane Reppe , Denise Schindler , Dorothee Vieth
- Men
- Hans-Peter Durst , Kai Kruse , Vico Merklein , Stefan Nimke , Thomas Schäfer , Michael Teuber , Steffen Warias , Max Weber , Erich Winkler
Austria
Switzerland
- Women
- Sandra Graf (standard bearer), Sandra Stöckli
- Men
Medal table
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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1 | United Kingdom | 12 | 3 | 6th | 21st |
2 | Germany | 8th | 3 | 4th | 15th |
3 | Netherlands | 5 | 5 | 6th | 16 |
4th | Italy | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
5 | United States | 4th | 7th | 5 | 18th |
6th | Australia | 3 | 7th | 3 | 13 |
7th | People's Republic of China | 3 | 3 | 4th | 10 |
8th | Poland | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
9 | Ireland | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
10 | Slovakia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
11 | Ukraine | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
12 | Canada | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
13 | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
14th | Austria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Japan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
16 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
17th | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Brazil | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
20th | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
21st | Colombia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
22nd | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 50 | 50 | 50 | 150 |
Web links
- Results on Rio2016.com
- DBS - competitive sport - bigger team travels to the Paralympics. In: dbs-npc.de. August 25, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iranian Para-Cycler Golbarnezhad had a fatal accident at Paralympics. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed September 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Rio de Janeiro: Iranian cyclist dies at the Paralympics. In: zeit.de . September 18, 2016, accessed September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Rio 2016 - Sports - Cycling. In: oepc.at. OEPC, accessed September 3, 2016 .