Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres

Men's 20 kilometres at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	White City Stadium
Date	July 14
Competitors	44 from 10 nations
Medalists
Clarence Kingsbury   Great Britain   Benjamin Jones   Great Britain   Joseph Werbrouck   Belgium

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track cycling
660 yards		men
5000 metres		men
20 kilometres		men
100 kilometres		men
Sprint		men
Tandem		men
Team pursuit		men

The men's 20 kilometres was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the second longest of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 40 minutes.

Results

Semifinals

There were two methods of qualifying for the final. A cyclist could either finish first in one of the six semifinals or be the leader "of the greatest number of laps in the three fastest heats.^[1]"

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Leon Meredith	Great Britain	33:21.0
2	Hermann Martens	Germany	33:21.2
3	Joseph Werbrouck	Belgium	33:21.4
4	André Lapize	France	Unknown
5	Georgius Damen	Netherlands	Unknown
6	Frederick McCarthy	Canada	Unknown
7-8	Pierre Hostein	France	Unknown
	Rudolf Katzer	Germany	Unknown
—	Daniel Flynn	Great Britain	Did not finish

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	32:33.8
2	Colin Brooks	Great Britain	32:34.0
3	Floris Venter	South Africa	32:34.4
4	Georges Lutz	France	Unknown
5	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Netherlands	Unknown
6	François Bonnet	France	Unknown
7-9	Walter Andrews	Canada	Unknown
	Jean van Benthem	Belgium	Unknown
	Paul Schulze	Germany	Unknown

Semifinal 3

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Louis Weintz	United States	33:39.8
2	Frank Shore	South Africa	33:40.0
3	Harry Young	Canada	33:45.2
4	Herbert Bouffler	Great Britain	Unknown
5	Max Triebsch	Germany	Unknown
6-7	Henri Cunault	France	Unknown
	Dorus Nijland	Netherlands	Unknown
—	Frederick Hamlin	Great Britain	Did not finish

Semifinal 4

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	32:39.0
2	George Cameron	United States	32:39.2
3	T. H. E. Passmore	South Africa	32:39.4
4	Octave Lapize	France	Unknown
5	Henri Baumler	France	Unknown
6-7	Alwin Boldt	Germany	Unknown
	Johannes van Spengen	Netherlands	Unknown
—	W. Lower	Great Britain	Did not finish

Semifinal 5

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	34:53.6
2	David Robertson	Great Britain	34:53.8
3	William Anderson	Canada	34:55.6
—	Ioannis Santorinaios	Greece	Did not finish
	Pierre Texier	France	Did not finish

Semifinal 6

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Arthur J. Denny	Great Britain	33:40.6
2	Charles Avrillon	France	33:40.8
3	Gustaf Westerberg	Sweden	33:41.4
4	Guglielmo Morisetti	Italy	Unknown
—	Léon Couckelberg	Belgium	Disqualified

Final

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Clarence Kingsbury	Great Britain	34:13.6
2	Benjamin Jones	Great Britain	Unknown
3	Joseph Werbrouck	Belgium	Unknown
4	Louis Weintz	United States	Unknown
5-9	François Bonnet	France	Unknown
	Arthur Denny	Great Britain	Unknown
	Andrew Hansson	Sweden	Unknown
	Octave Lapize	France	Unknown
	Leon Meredith	Great Britain	Unknown

Notes

1. Olympic Report, p. 120

Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
• De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .