Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The cycling competitions at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta consisted of three separate categories: road cycling, track cycling, and mountain biking. The road cycling events took place in downtown Atlanta, track cycling was carried out at the Stone Mountain velodrome in neighboring DeKalb County, and the mountain biking events were held at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers.^[1]

Cycling at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venues	Georgia International Horse Park Atlanta and surrounding area Stone Mountain Velodrome
Date	July 21–28, 1996
Competitors	477 from 68 nations
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Road

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race details	Pascal Richard  Switzerland	Rolf Sørensen  Denmark	Max Sciandri  Great Britain
Men's time trial details	Miguel Indurain  Spain	Abraham Olano  Spain	Chris Boardman  Great Britain
Women's road race details	Jeannie Longo  France	Imelda Chiappa  Italy	Clara Hughes  Canada
Women's time trial details	Zulfiya Zabirova  Russia	Jeannie Longo  France	Clara Hughes  Canada

Track

Men’s

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
points race details	Silvio Martinello  Italy	Brian Walton  Canada	Stuart O'Grady  Australia
pursuit details	Andrea Collinelli  Italy	Philippe Ermenault  France	Bradley McGee  Australia
team pursuit details	France (FRA) Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	Russia (RUS) Eduard Gritsun Nikolay Kuznetsov Alexei Markov Anton Shantyr	Australia (AUS) Brett Aitken Stuart O'Grady Timothy O'Shannessey Dean Woods
sprint details	Jens Fiedler  Germany	Marty Nothstein  United States	Curt Harnett  Canada
time trial details	Florian Rousseau  France	Erin Hartwell  United States	Takanobu Jumonji  Japan

Women’s

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
points race details	Nathalie Lancien  France	Ingrid Haringa  Netherlands	Lucy Tyler-Sharman  Australia
pursuit details	Antonella Bellutti  Italy	Marion Clignet  France	Judith Arndt  Germany
sprint details	Félicia Ballanger  France	Michelle Ferris  Australia	Ingrid Haringa  Netherlands

Mountain bike

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Bart Brentjens  Netherlands	Thomas Frischknecht  Switzerland	Miguel Martinez  France
Women's details	Paola Pezzo  Italy	Alison Sydor  Canada	Susan DeMattei  United States

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	5	3	1	9
2	Italy	4	1	0	5
3	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
4	Russia	1	1	0	2
	Spain	1	1	0	2
	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
7	Germany	1	0	1	2
8	Canada	0	2	3	5
9	United States	0	2	1	3
10	Australia	0	1	4	5
11	Denmark	0	1	0	1
12	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
13	Japan	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		14	14	14	42

Broken records

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 1996 Summer Olympics and List of Olympic records in cycling

Event	Name	Nation	Time	Date	Record
Men's flying 200 m time trial	Gary Neiwand	Australia	10"129	24 July	OR
Men's 1 km time trial	Florian Rousseau	France	1'02"712	24 July	OR
Men's individual pursuit	Andrea Collinelli	Italy	4'19"699	24 July	WR, OR
Men's team pursuit	Eduard Gritsun Nikolay Kuznetsov Aleksey Markov Anton Chantyr	Russia	4'08"785	26 July	OR
	Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	France	4'06"880	27 July	OR
	Christophe Capelle Philippe Ermenault Jean-Michel Monin Francis Moreau	France	4'05"930	27 July	OR
Women's flying 200 m time trial	Michelle Ferris	Australia	11"212	24 July	OR
Women's individual pursuit	Antonella Bellutti	Italy	3'34"130	25 July	OR
	Antonella Bellutti	Italy	3'32"371	25 July	OR

OR = Olympic record, WR = World record

Sources^[2][3]