Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of 44 events in two main disciplines, track cycling and road cycling. Track cycling was held in Laoshan Velodrome on 7–10 September, and road cycling took place at the Changping Triathlon Venue on 12–14 September.[1]

Cycling at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Cycling
Venue	Laoshan Velodrome Changping Triathlon Venue
Dates	7–10 September 2008

Karissa Whitsell and Mackenzie Woodring (pilot) compete in Beijing on 7 September 2008.

Classification

Cyclists are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows cyclists to compete against others with a similar level of function.

Cycling classes are:

• B&VI 1–3: Blind and visually impaired cyclists
• LC 1–4: Cyclists with a locomotor disability
• CP 1–4: Cyclists with cerebral palsy
• HC A, B, and C: Cyclists using a handcycle

Events

For each of the events below, medals are contested for one or more of the above classifications. After each classification is given the dates that the event will be contested.

Road cycling

• Men's individual road race
  • B&VI 1–3 – 14 September
  • HC B – 14 September
  • HC C – 14 September
  • LC 1–2/CP 4 – 13 September
  • LC 3–4/CP 3 – 13 September
• Men's individual time trial
  • B&VI 1–3 – 12 September
  • CP 3 – 12 September
  • CP 4 – 12 September
  • HC A – 12 September
  • HC B – 12 September
  • HC C – 12 September
  • LC 1 – 12 September
  • LC 2 – 12 September
  • LC 3 – 12 September
  • LC 4 – 12 September
• Women's individual road race
  • B&VI 1–3 – 14 September
  • HC A/B/C – 13 September
• Women's individual time trial
  • B&VI 1–3 – 12 September
  • HC A/B/C – 12 September
  • LC 1–2/CP 4 – 12 September
  • LC 3–4/CP 3 – 12 September
• Mixed individual road race
  • CP 1–2 – 13 September
• Mixed individual time trial
  • CP 1–2 – 12 September

Track cycling

• Men's 1 km time trial
  • B&VI 1–3 – 8 September
  • CP 3 – 9 September
  • CP 4 – 9 September
  • LC 1 – 9 September
  • LC 2 – 9 September
  • LC 3–4 – 7 September
• Men's individual pursuit
  • B&VI 1–3 – 4000 m – 7 September
  • CP 3 – 3000 m – 7 September
  • CP 4 – 3000 m – 7 September
  • LC 1 – 4000 m – 8 September
  • LC 2 – 4000 m – 8 September
  • LC 3 – 9 September
  • LC 4 – 9 September
• Men's individual sprint
  • B&VI 1–3 – 10 September
• Men's team sprint
  • LC 1–4/CP 3–4 – 10 September
• Women's 500m time trial
  • LC1–2/CP 4 – 8 September
  • LC3–4/CP 3 – 8 September
• Women's 1 km time trail
  • B&VI 1–3 – 7 September
• Women's individual pursuit
  • B&VI 1–3 – 9 September
  • LC 1–2/CP 4 – 10 September
  • LC 3–4/CP 3 – 10 September

Participating countries

There were 220 athletes (163 males, 57 females) from 39 nations taking part in this sport.

Argentina (3)  Australia (17)  Austria (11)  Belarus (6)  Belgium (3)  Brazil (2)  Burkina Faso (1)  Canada (15)  China (8)  Colombia (4)  Croatia (1)  Czech Republic (8)  Denmark (3)

Finland (2)  France (9)  Germany (17)  Great Britain (12)  Greece (2)  Ireland (6)  Israel (1)  Italy (9)  Japan (5)  Lebanon (1)  Luxembourg (1)  Mexico (1)  Netherlands (6)

New Zealand (5)  Norway (1)  Poland (6)  Portugal (1)  Romania (3)  Slovakia (4)  Slovenia (1)  South Africa (7)  South Korea (2)  Spain (16)  Switzerland (5)  United States (13)  Venezuela (2)

Medal summary

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their cyclists (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	17	3	0	20
2	United States (USA)	5	4	4	13
3	Germany (GER)	3	6	4	13
4	Australia (AUS)	3	5	7	15
5	Spain (ESP)	3	5	3	11
6	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	2	4	8
7	Italy (ITA)	2	1	3	6
8	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	0	2
9	Japan (JPN)	1	3	2	6
10	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
11	South Africa (RSA)	1	1	1	3
12	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	0	2
14	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	3	4
15	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
16	China (CHN)	0	3	4	7
17	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
18	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
19	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
22	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	2	2
24	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 nations)		44	43	44	131

Road cycling

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	Time trial B&VI 1–3	Spain (ESP) Christian Venge David Llaurado	Netherlands (NED) Alfred Stelleman Jaco Tettelaar	Poland (POL) Krzysztof Kosikowski Artur Korc
	Time trial CP 3	Javier Otxoa  Spain	Darren Kenny  Great Britain	Yong-Sik Jin  South Korea
	Time trial CP 4	Cesar Neira  Spain	Christopher Scott  Australia	Masashi Ishii  Japan
	Time trial HC A	Wolfgang Schattauer  Austria	Rastislav Turecek  Slovakia	Alain Quittet  France
	Time trial HC B	Heinz Frei  Switzerland	Vittorio Podestà  Italy	Edward Maalouf  Lebanon
	Time trial HC C	Oz Sanchez  United States	José Vicente Arzo  Spain	Alejandro Albor  United States
	Time trial LC1	Wolfgang Sacher  Germany	Wolfgang Eibeck  Austria	Fabio Triboli  Italy
	Time trial LC2	Jiri Jezek  Czech Republic	Carol Eduard Novak  Romania	Roberto Alcaide  Spain
	Time trial LC3	Laurent Thirionet  France	Simon Richardson  Great Britain	Masaki Fujita  Japan
	Time trial LC4	Michael Teuber  Germany	Juan José Méndez Fernández  Spain	Anthony Zahn  United States
Road race	Road race B&VI 1–3	Poland (POL) Andrzej Zajac Dariusz Flak	Finland (FIN) Jarmo Ollanketo Marko Tormanen	France (FRA) Olivier Donval John Saccomandi
	Road race HC B	Heinz Frei  Switzerland	Max Weber  Germany	Edward Maalouf  Lebanon
	Road race HC C	Ernst van Dyk  South Africa	Alejandro Albor  United States	Oz Sanchez  United States
	Road race LC 1–2/CP 4	Fabio Triboli  Italy	David Mercier  France	Michael Gallagher  Australia
	Road race LC 3–4/CP 3	Darren Kenny  Great Britain	Javier Otxoa  Spain	Tomas Kvasnicka  Czech Republic

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	Time trial B&VI 1–3	United States (USA) Karissa Whitsell Mackenzie Woodring	Belarus (BLR) Iryna Fiadotava Alena Drazdova	New Zealand (NZL) Jayne Parsons Annaliisa Farrell
	Time trial HC A/B/C	Rachel Morris  Great Britain	Monique van der Vorst  Netherlands	Dorothee Vieth  Germany
	Time trial LC 1–2/CP 4	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	Jennifer Schuble  United States	Jufang Zhou  China
	Time trial LC 3–4/CP 3	Barbara Buchan  United States	Allison Jones  United States	Paula Tesoriero  New Zealand
Road race	Road race B&VI 1–3	Belarus (BLR) Iryna Fiadotava Alena Drazdova	United States (USA) Karissa Whitsell Mackenzie Woodring	Canada (CAN) Genevieve Ouellet Mathilde Hupin
	Road race HC A/B/C	Andrea Eskau  Germany	Monique van der Vorst  Netherlands	Dorothee Vieth  Germany

Mixed events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	Time trial CP 1–2	David Stone  Great Britain	Barbara Weise  Germany	Marketa Mackova  Czech Republic
Road race	Road race CP 1–2	David Stone  Great Britain	Riaan Nel  South Africa	Giorgio Farroni  Italy

Track cycling

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	1 km time trial (B&VI 1–3)	Great Britain (GBR) Anthony Kappes Barney Storey	Australia (AUS) Ben Demery Shaun Hopkins	Australia (AUS) Kieran Modra Tyson Lawrence
	1 km time trial (CP 3)	Darren Kenny  Great Britain	Rik Waddon  Great Britain	Tomas Kvasnicka  Czech Republic
	1 km time trial (CP 4)	Masashi Ishii  Japan	Jiri Bouska  Czech Republic	Christopher Scott  Australia
	1 km time trial (LC 1)	Mark Bristow  Great Britain	Kuidong Zhang  China	Wolfgang Sacher  Germany
	1 km time trial (LC 2)	Jody Cundy  Great Britain	Jiri Jezek  Czech Republic	Yuanchao Zheng  China
	1 km time trial (LC 3–4)	Simon Richardson  Great Britain	Masaki Fujita  Japan	Greg Ball  Australia
Individual pursuit	Individual pursuit (B&VI 1–3)	Australia (AUS) Kieran Modra Tyson Lawrence	Spain (ESP) Christian Venge David Llaurado	Australia (AUS) Bryce Lindores Steven George
	Individual pursuit (CP 3)	Darren Kenny  Great Britain	Yong-Sik Jin  South Korea	Jean Quevillon  Canada
	Individual pursuit (CP 4)	Christopher Scott  Australia	Masashi Ishii  Japan	Cesar Neira  Spain
	Individual pursuit (LC 1)	Michael Gallagher  Australia	Wolfgang Sacher  Germany	Fabio Triboli  Italy
	Individual pursuit (LC 2)	Jiri Jezek  Czech Republic	Roberto Alcaide  Spain	Jan Boyen  Belgium
	Individual pursuit (LC 3)	Simon Richardson  Great Britain	Masaki Fujita  Japan	Tobias Graf  Germany
	Individual pursuit (LC 4)	Paolo Vigano  Italy	Michael Teuber  Germany	Juan José Mendez  Spain
Sprint	Sprint (B&VI 1–3)	Great Britain (GBR) Anthony Kappes Barney Storey	Australia (AUS) Ben Demery Shaun Hopkins	South Africa (RSA) Gavin Kilpatrick Michael Thomson
	Team sprint (LC1–4 CP3/4)	Great Britain (GBR) Darren Kenny Mark Bristow Jody Cundy	China (CHN) Kuidong Zhang Yuanchao Zheng Zhang Lu	Czech Republic (CZE) Tomas Kvasnicka Jiri Bouska Jiri Jezek

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial	500m time trial (LC1–2/CP 4)	Jennifer Schuble  United States	Ye Yaping  China	Dong Jingping  China
	500m time trial (LC3–4/CP 3)	Paula Tesoriero  New Zealand	Natalie Simanowski  Germany	Jayme Paris  Australia
	1 km time trial (B&VI 1–3)	Great Britain (GBR) Aileen McGlynn Ellen Hunter	Australia (AUS) Felicity Johnson Katie Parker	Australia (AUS) Lindy Hou Toireasa Gallagher
Individual pursuit	Individual pursuit (B&VI 1–3)	Great Britain (GBR) Aileen McGlynn Ellen Hunter	Australia (AUS) Lindy Hou Toireasa Gallagher	United States (USA) Karissa Whitsell Mackenzie Woodring
	Individual pursuit (LC 1–2/CP 4)	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	Jennifer Schuble  United States	Jingping Dong  China
	Individual pursuit (LC 3–4/CP 3)	Barbara Buchan  United States	Natalie Simanowski  Germany	Paula Tesoriero  New Zealand

See also

• Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Schedule". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

• "Schedules and Results - Cycling Road". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-12. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

• "Schedules and Results - Cycling Track". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-10-04. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

External links

• Official site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• IPC
• UCI:Union Cycliste Internationale
• Results Book – Road
• Results Book – Track