Track time trial at the Olympics

Track time trial; at the Olympic Games
	The first track time trial winner, Paul Masson, in 1896
Overview
Sport	Cycling
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1896, 1928–2004 ; Women: 2000–2004
Reigning champion
Men	Chris Hoy (GBR)
Women	Anna Meares (AUS)

The track time trial is a defunct track cycling event formerly held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was not held again until 1928, when it became a consistent part of the programme and was held every year from then until 2004, after which the event was eliminated. A women's version was added in 2000, being held only twice before being eliminated along with the men's event after 2004. The distance of the time trial was one kilometre for men (except 1896, when it was one-third of a kilometre) and half a kilometre for women.

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens	Paul Masson France	Stamatios Nikolopoulos Greece	Adolf Schmal Austria
1928 Amsterdam	Willy Hansen Denmark	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein Netherlands	Dunc Gray Australia
1932 Los Angeles	Dunc Gray Australia	Jacques van Egmond Netherlands	Charles Rampelberg France
1936 Berlin	Arie van Vliet Netherlands	Pierre Georget France	Rudolf Karsch Germany
1948 London	Jacques Dupont France	Pierre Nihant Belgium	Tommy Godwin Great Britain
1952 Helsinki	Russell Mockridge Australia	Marino Morettini Italy	Raymond Robinson South Africa
1956 Melbourne	Leandro Faggin Italy	Ladislav Fouček Czechoslovakia	Alfred Swift South Africa
1960 Rome	Sante Gaiardoni Italy	Dieter Gieseler United Team of Germany	Rostislav Vargashkin Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo	Patrick Sercu Belgium	Giovanni Pettenella Italy	Pierre Trentin France
1968 Mexico City	Pierre Trentin France	Niels Fredborg Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski Poland
1972 Munich	Niels Fredborg Denmark	Daniel Clark Australia	Jürgen Schütze East Germany
1976 Montreal	Klaus-Jürgen Grünke East Germany	Michel Vaarten Belgium	Niels Fredborg Denmark
1980 Moscow	Lothar Thoms East Germany	Aleksandr Panfilov Soviet Union	David Weller Jamaica
1984 Los Angeles	Fredy Schmidtke West Germany	Curt Harnett Canada	Fabrice Colas France
1988 Seoul	Aleksandr Kirichenko Soviet Union	Martin Vinnicombe Australia	Robert Lechner West Germany
1992 Barcelona	José Manuel Moreno Spain	Shane Kelly Australia	Erin Hartwell United States
1996 Atlanta	Florian Rousseau France	Erin Hartwell United States	Takanobu Jumonji Japan
2000 Sydney	Jason Queally Great Britain	Stefan Nimke Germany	Shane Kelly Australia
2004 Athens	Chris Hoy Great Britain	Arnaud Tournant France	Stefan Nimke Germany

Multiple medalists

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Niels Fredborg	Denmark (DEN)	1968–1976	1	1	1	3
2	Dunc Gray	Australia (AUS)	1928–1932	1	0	1	2
2	Pierre Trentin	France (FRA)	1964–1968	1	0	1	2
4	Erin Hartwell	United States (USA)	1992–1996	0	1	1	2
4	Shane Kelly	Australia (AUS)	1992–2000	0	1	1	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	4	2	3	9
2	Australia (AUS)	2	3	2	7
3	Italy (ITA)	2	2	0	4
4	Denmark (DEN)	2	1	1	4
5	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	1	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	1	3
7	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	0	3
7	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
9	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	1	3
10	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
11	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
12	Germany (GER)	0	1	2	3
13	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
14	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
18	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	2	2
19	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Felicia Ballanger France	Michelle Ferris Australia	Jiang Cuihua China
2004 Athens	Anna Meares Australia	Jiang Yonghua China	Natallia Tsylinskaya Belarus

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
2	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
3	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
4	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1

Olympic record progression

Men

Time	Cyclist	Nation	Games	Date
1:16.0	Octave Dayen	France (FRA)	1928	1928-08-05
1:15.2	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein	Netherlands (NED)	1928	1928-08-05
1:14.4	Willy Hansen	Denmark (DEN)	1928	1928-08-05
1:13.0	Dunc Gray	Australia (AUS)	1932	1932-08-01
1:12.0	Arie van Vliet	Netherlands (NED)	1936	1936-08-08
1:11.1	Russell Mockridge	Australia (AUS)	1952	1952-07-31
1:09.8	Leandro Faggin	Italy (ITA)	1956	1956-12-06
1:09.20	Piet van der Touw	Netherlands (NED)	1960	1960-08-26
1:08.75	Dieter Gieseler	Germany (GER)	1960	1960-08-26
1:07.27 WR	Sante Gaiardoni	Italy (ITA)	1960	1960-08-26
1:04.65	Gianni Sartori	Italy (ITA)	1968	1968-10-17
1:04.61	Niels Fredborg	Denmark (DEN)	1968	1968-10-17
1:03.91 WR	Pierre Trentin	France (FRA)	1968	1968-10-17
1:02.955 WR	Lothar Thoms	East Germany (GDR)	1980	1980-07-22
1:02.940	Erin Hartwell	United States (USA)	1996	1996-07-24
1:02.712	Florian Rousseau	France (FRA)	1996	1996-07-24
1:01.609	Jason Queally	Great Britain (GBR)	2000	2000-09-16
1:00.896	Arnaud Tournant	France (FRA)	2004	2004-08-20
1:00.711	Chris Hoy	Great Britain (GBR)	2004	2004-08-20

Women

Time	Cyclist	Nation	Games	Date
35.728	Daniela Larreal	Venezuela (VEN)	2000	2000-09-16
35.230	Chris Witty	United States (USA)	2000	2000-09-16
35.013	Wang Yan	China (CHN)	2000	2000-09-16
34.696	Michelle Ferris	Australia (AUS)	2000	2000-09-16
34.140	Felicia Ballanger	France (FRA)	2000	2000-09-16
34.112	Jiang Yonghua	China (CHN)	2004	2004-08-20
33.952 WR	Anna Meares	Australia (AUS)	2004	2004-08-20

Intercalated Games

The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.[1]

Francesco Verri of Italy won the 1906 title, with Herbert Crowther of Great Britain in second and Henri Menjou of France third.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1906 Athens	Francesco Verri (ITA)	Herbert Crowther (GBR)	Henri Menjou (FRA)

References

1906 Athina Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 26 January 2014.

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[1] 1906 Athina Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 26 January 2014.