Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's track time trial
| Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Road race | men | women | ||
| Time trial | men | women | ||
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| Individual pursuit | men | women | ||
| Team pursuit | men | |||
| Sprint | men | women | ||
| Team sprint | men | |||
| Time trial | men | women | ||
| Points race | men | women | ||
| Keirin | men | |||
| Madison | men | |||
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| Cross-country | men | women | ||
The women's 500 metre time trial in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twelve cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for two laps (500 metres) of the track.
In a field of personal bests, 20-year-old World Champion for the 500 m time trial, Anna Meares from Australia, set a new world record to claim the gold medal in 33.952 seconds. The previous world record was held by Yonghua Jiang of China, who minutes previously had set a new Olympic record in this event to claim the silver medal with a time of 34.112 seconds. Natallia Tsylinskaya from Belarus was awarded the bronze medal.
Medalists
 Gold |
 Silver |
 Bronze |
 Anna Meares (AUS) |
 Jiang Yonghua (CHN) |
.svg.png){kind=small} Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR) |
Records
Anna Meares's time of 33.952 in the event set a new world record, bettering Jiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.
| World Record | Jiang Yonghua (CHN) | Kumming, China P.R. | 34.000 s | August 11, 2002 |
| Olympic Record | Félicia Ballanger (FRA) | Sydney, Australia | 34.140 s | September 16, 2000 |
Results
| Rank | Race Number |
Name | 250 m Time |
500 m Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Anna Meares (AUS) | 19.164 | 33.952 WR |
| 2 | 7 | Jiang Yonghua (CHN) | 19.192 | 34.112 |
| 3 | 4 | Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR) | 19.305 | 34.167 |
| 4 | 23 | .svg.png){kind=small} Simona Krupeckaitė (LTU) | 19.517 | 34.317 |
| 5 | 26 |  Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED) | 19.519 | 34.532 |
| 6 | 16 |  Victoria Pendleton (GBR) | 19.696 | 34.626 |
| 7 | 6 |  Lori-Ann Muenzer (CAN) | 19.630 | 34.628 |
| 8 | 24 |  Nancy Contreras Reyes (MEX) | 19.523 | 34.783 |
| 9 | 32 |  Svetlana Grankovskaya (RUS) | 19.739 | 34.797 |
| 10 | 21 |  Sayuri Osuga (JPN) | 19.704 | 35.045 |
| 11 | 17 |  Katrin Meinke (GER) | 19.789 | 35.088 |
| 12 | 30 | Tamilla Abassova (RUS) | 19.982 | 35.147 |