Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's cross-country

The men's cross-country cycling event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at Hadleigh Farm on 12 August.^[1]

Men's cross-country cycling at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Trio of future medal winners – left to right: Marco Aurelio Fontana, Jaroslav Kulhavý and Nino Schurter
Venue	Hadleigh Farm
Date	12 August
Competitors	47 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:29:07
Medalists
Jaroslav Kulhavý  Czech Republic Nino Schurter  Switzerland Marco Aurelio Fontana  Italy
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Fifty cyclists from 32 countries competed. Jaroslav Kulhavý from the Czech Republic won the gold medal, beating Switzerland's Nino Schurter by one second.

Format

The competition began at 1:30 pm with a mass start and involved a set number of laps (determined the day before the competition) around the 4.8 km course at Hadleigh Farm in Essex.^[2] The distance of the race was 34.1 km.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time

Date	Time	Round
Sunday 12 August 2012	13:30	Final

Result

The entry list was published on 26 July.^[3]

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
	Jaroslav Kulhavý	Czech Republic	1:29:07
	Nino Schurter	Switzerland	1:29:08
	Marco Aurelio Fontana	Italy	1:29:32
4	José Antonio Hermida	Spain	1:29:36
5	Burry Stander	South Africa	1:29:37
6	Carlos Coloma Nicolás	Spain	1:30:07
7	Manuel Fumic	Germany	1:30:31
8	Geoff Kabush	Canada	1:30:43
9	Alexander Gehbauer	Austria	1:31:16
10	Todd Wells	United States	1:31:28
11	Stéphane Tempier	France	1:31:30
12	Jan Škarnitzl	Czech Republic	1:31:48
13	Gerhard Kerschbaumer	Italy	1:32:02
14	Ondřej Cink	Czech Republic	1:32:16
15	Samuel Schultz	United States	1:32:29
16	Marek Konwa	Poland	1:32:41
17	Rudi van Houts	Netherlands	1:32:53
18	Ralph Näf	Switzerland	1:32:58
19	Kevin van Hoovels	Belgium	1:33:01
20	Karl Markt	Austria	1:33:18
21	Daniel McConnell	Australia	1:33:22
22	Sergio Mantecón Gutiérrez	Spain	1:33:46
23	David Rosa	Portugal	1:33:50
24	Rubens Valeriano	Brazil	1:34:23
25	Florian Vogel	Switzerland	1:34:36
26	Catriel Soto	Argentina	1:35:13
27	Kohei Yamamoto	Japan	1:35:26
28	Héctor Leonardo Páez	Colombia	1:36:02
29	Jean-Christophe Péraud	France	1:37:07
30	Marc Bassingthwaighte	Namibia	1:37:17
31	Sergiy Rysenko	Ukraine	1:37:32
32	Piotr Brzózka	Poland	1:38:37
33	Periklis Ilias	Greece	1:38:51
34	Moritz Milatz	Germany	1:38:59
35	Philip Buys	South Africa	1:40:11
36	Paolo Montoya	Costa Rica	1:41:19
37	Evgeniy Pechenin	Russia	1:41:40
38	Chan Chun Hing	Hong Kong	1:41:59
39	Adrien Niyonshuti	Rwanda	1:42:46
40	Marios Athanasiadis	Cyprus	1:43:25
–	Tong Weisong	China	LAP
–	Derek Horton	Guam	LAP
–	Sven Nys	Belgium	DNF
–	Max Plaxton	Canada	DNF
–	András Parti	Hungary	DNF
–	Julien Absalon	France	DNF
–	Liam Killeen	Great Britain	DNF
–	Robert Förstemann	Germany	DNS
–	Michael Vingerling	Netherlands	DNS
–	Sam Bewley	New Zealand	DNS