Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the Games of the V Olympiad
The White City Stadium during the 1908 Summer Olympics
Venues
Track cycling	White City Stadium
Dates	13 July – 18 July
Cyclists	97 from 11 countries
Top ranked countries
Great Britain:			5	3	1
France:			1	2	2
Germany:			0	1	1
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, with rainfall causing the track to flood on occasion.^[1] The track was 660 yards long (being built around the perimeter of the White City Stadium's athletics track); some events (the 660 yards and the team pursuit) used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
660 yards	Victor Johnson (GBR)	Émile Demangel (FRA)	Karl Neumer (GER)
5000 metres	Benjamin Jones (GBR)	Maurice Schilles (FRA)	André Auffray (FRA)
20 kilometres	Clarence Kingsbury (GBR)	Benjamin Jones (GBR)	Joseph Werbrouck (BEL)
100 kilometres	Charles Bartlett (GBR)	Charles Denny (GBR)	Octave Lapize (FRA)
Sprint	No medalists - race declared void as time limit was exceeded in final
Tandem	André Auffray and Maurice Schilles (FRA)	Frederick Hamlin and Horace Johnson (GBR)	Colin Brooks and Walter Isaacs (GBR)
Team pursuit	Great Britain (GBR) Benjamin Jones Clarence Kingsbury Leonard Meredith Ernest Payne	Germany (GER) Max Götze Rudolf Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer	Canada (CAN) William Anderson Walter Andrews Frederick McCarthy William Morton

Participating nations

A total of 97 cyclists from 11 nations competed at the London Games:^[2]

• Belgium (6)
• Canada (5)
• France (23)
• Germany (9)
• Great Britain (36)
• Greece (1)
• Italy (4)
• Netherlands (5)
• South Africa (4)
• Sweden (2)
• United States (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	5	3	1	9
2	France (FRA)	1	2	2	5
3	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
4	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1

Notes

1. Official Report, p. 113.
2. "Cycling at the 1908 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.

References

• International Olympic Committee medal winners database