Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics consisted of 50 events in two main disciplines, track cycling and road cycling. Track cycling was held in London Velopark from 30 August to 2 September, and road cycling took place at Brands Hatch from September 5 to September 8.^[1]

Cycling at the XIV Paralympic Games
Pictograms for road (left) and track cycling (right)
Venue	London Velopark Brands Hatch
Dates	5 – 8 September 2012
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Classification

A tandem bicycle, with Stephanie Morton acting as Felicity Johnson's pilot.

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. The class number indicates the severity of impairment with "1" being most impaired.

Cycling classes are:^[2]

• B: Blind and visually impaired cyclists use a Tandem bicycle with a sighted pilot on the front - both athletes are awarded medals
• H 1–4: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their legs use a handcycle
• T 1–2: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their balance use a tricycle
• C 1-5: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their legs, arms and/or trunk but are capable of using a standard bicycle

Events

For each of the events below, medals are contested for one or more of the above classifications.

Road cycling

Men's individual road race • B • H1 • H2 • H3 • H4 • C1-3 • C4-5 Men's individual time trial • B • H1 • H2 • H3 • H4 • C1 • C2 • C3 • C4 • C5

Women's individual road race • B • H1-3 • H4 • C1-3 • C4-5 Women's individual time trial • B • H1-2 • H3 • H4 • C1-3 • C4 • C5

Mixed individual road race • T1-2 Mixed individual time trial • T1-2 Mixed team relay • H1-4

Track cycling

Men's 1 km time trial • B • C1-3 • C4-5 Men's individual pursuit • B • C1 • C2 • C3 • C4 • C5 Men's individual sprint • B

Women's 500m time trial • C1-3 • C4-5 Women's 1 km time trial • B Women's individual pursuit • B • C1-3 • C4 • C5 Mixed team sprint • C1-5

Participating nations

223 cyclists from 48 nations including 37 guides from 20 selected nations competed.

•  Albania (1)
•  Argentina (2) + 1 pilot
•  Australia (12) + 3 pilots
•  Austria (7)
•  Belarus (1) + 1 pilot
•  Belgium (4)
•  Brazil (2)
•  Burkina Faso (2)
•  Canada (12) + 3 pilots
•  China (8)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Czech Republic (8)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Dominican Republic (1)
•  Finland (1) + 1 pilot
•  France (11) + 3 pilots
•  Germany (15) + 1 pilot
•  Ghana (1)
•  Great Britain (15) + 4 pilots
•  Greece (3) + 2 pilots
•  Haiti (1)
•  Iran (1)
•  Ireland (7) + 3 pilots
•  Israel (3)
•  Italy (12) + 1 pilot
•  Japan (3) + 1 pilot
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Malaysia (1) + 1 pilot
•  Netherlands (8) + 3 pilots
•  New Zealand (1) + 1 pilot
•  Norway (2)
•  Poland (5) + 1 pilot
•  Romania (2)
•  Russia (2)
•  Serbia (1) + 1 pilot
•  Slovakia (5) + 1 pilot
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Africa (6)
•  South Korea (2)
•  Spain (12) + 4 pilots
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (8)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (16) + 1 pilot
•  Venezuela (2)

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	8	9	5	22
2	United States (USA)	6	5	6	17
3	China (CHN)	6	4	5	15
4	Australia (AUS)	6	4	4	14
5	Germany (GER)	4	7	3	14
6	Italy (ITA)	4	3	3	10
7	Poland (POL)	2	4	0	6
8	Spain (ESP)	2	2	3	7
9	Switzerland (SUI)	2	2	2	6
10	Ireland (IRL)	2	1	2	5
11	Ukraine (UKR)	2	0	0	2
12	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	3	6
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	2	5
14	Austria (AUT)	1	1	2	4
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	1	2	4
16	Romania (ROU)	1	1	0	2
17	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
18	Israel (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	1	0	1
20	France (FRA)	0	0	2	2
21	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		50	50	50	150

Road cycling

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	B	Christian Venge  Spain	Ivano Pizzi  Italy	James Brown  Ireland
	H1	Mark Rohan  Ireland	Koby Lion  Israel	Wolfgang Schattauer  Austria
	H2	Heinz Frei  Switzerland	Walter Ablinger  Austria	Vittorio Podestà  Italy
	H3	Rafał Wilk  Poland	Nigel Barley  Australia	Bernd Jeffre  Germany
	H4	Alessandro Zanardi  Italy	Norbert Mosandl  Germany	Oscar Sanchez  United States
	C1	Michael Teuber  Germany	Mark Colbourne  Great Britain	Zhang Yu Li  China
	C2	Tobias Graf  Germany	Guihua Liang  China	Maurice Eckhard Tió  Spain
	C3	David Nicholas  Australia	Joseph Berenyi  United States	Masaki Fujita  Japan
	C4	Jiří Ježek  Czech Republic	Carol-Eduard Novak  Romania	Jiří Bouška  Czech Republic
	C5	Yegor Dementyev  Ukraine	Xinyang Liu  China	Michael Gallagher  Australia
Road race details	B	Ivano Pizzi  Italy	Krzysztof Kosikowski  Poland	Vladislav Janovjak  Slovakia
	H1	Mark Rohan  Ireland	Tobias Fankhauser  Switzerland	Wolfgang Schattauer  Austria
	H2	Walter Ablinger  Austria	Jean-Marc Berset  Switzerland	Vittorio Podestà  Italy
	H3	Rafał Wilk  Poland	Vico Merklein  Germany	Joël Jeannot  France
	H4	Alessandro Zanardi  Italy	Ernst van Dyk  South Africa	Wim Decleir  Belgium
	C1-3	Roberto Bargna  Italy	Steffen Warias  Germany	David Nicholas  Australia
	C4-5	Yegor Dementyev  Ukraine	Xinyang Liu  China	Michele Pittacolo  Italy

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	B	Kathrin Goeken  Netherlands	Phillipa Gray  New Zealand	Catherine Walsh  Ireland
	H1-2	Marianna Davis  United States	Karen Darke  Great Britain	Ursula Schwaller  Switzerland
	H3	Sandra Graf  Switzerland	Monica Bascio  United States	Svetlana Moshkovich  Russia
	H4	Andrea Eskau  Germany	Dorothee Vieth  Germany	Laura de Vaan  Netherlands
	C1-3	Allison Jones  United States	Tereza Diepoldová  Czech Republic	Sini Zeng  China
	C4	Megan Fisher  United States	Susan Powell  Australia	Marie-Claude Molnar  Canada
	C5	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	Anna Harkowska  Poland	Kelly Crowley  United States
Road race details	B	Robbi Weldon  Canada	Josefa Benitez Guzman  Spain	Kathrin Goeken  Netherlands
	H1-3	Marianna Davis  United States	Monica Bascio  United States	Rachel Morris  Great Britain
	H4	Andrea Eskau  Germany	Laura de Vaan  Netherlands	Dorothee Vieth  Germany
	C1-3	Sini Zeng  China	Denise Schindler  Germany	Allison Jones  United States
	C4-5	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	Anna Harkowska  Poland	Kelly Crowley  United States

Mixed events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	T1-2	Carol Cooke  Australia	Hans-Peter Durst  Germany	David Stone  Great Britain
Road race details	T1-2	David Stone  Great Britain	Giorgio Farroni  Italy	David Vondracek  Czech Republic
Team Relay details	H1-4	United States (USA) Marianna Davis Oscar Sanchez Matthew Updike	Italy (ITA) Alex Zanardi Vittorio Podesta Francesca Fenocchio	Switzerland (SUI) Jean-Marc Berset Ursula Schwaller Heinz Frei

Track cycling

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 km time trial details	B	Neil Fachie  Great Britain	José Enrique Porto Lareo  Spain	Rinne Oost  Netherlands
	C1-3	Zhang Yu Li  China	Mark Colbourne  Great Britain	Tobias Graf  Germany
	C4-5	Alfonso Cabello  Spain	Jon-Allan Butterworth  Great Britain	Xinyang Liu  China
Individual pursuit details	B	Kieran Modra  Australia	Bryce Lindores  Australia	Miguel Ángel Clemente Solano  Spain
	C1	Mark Colbourne  Great Britain	Zhang Yu Li  China	Rodrigo Fernando López  Argentina
	C2	Guihua Liang  China	Tobias Graf  Germany	Laurent Thirionet  France
	C3	Joseph Berenyi  United States	Shaun McKeown  Great Britain	Darren Kenny  Great Britain
	C4	Carol-Eduard Novak  Romania	Jiří Ježek  Czech Republic	Jody Cundy  Great Britain
	C5	Michael Gallagher  Australia	Jon-Allan Butterworth  Great Britain	Liu Xinyang  China
Individual Sprint details	B	Anthony Kappes  Great Britain	Neil Fachie  Great Britain	José Enrique Porto Lareo  Spain

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Time trial details	C1-3 (500 m)	He Yin  China	Alyda Norbruis  Netherlands	Jayme Paris  Australia
	C4-5 (500 m)	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	Jennifer Schuble  United States	Jianping Ruan  China
	B (1 km)	Felicity Johnson  Australia	Aileen McGlynn  Great Britain	Phillipa Gray  New Zealand
Individual pursuit details	B	Phillipa Gray  New Zealand	Catherine Walsh  Ireland	Aileen McGlynn  Great Britain
	C1-3	Sini Zeng  China	Simone Kennedy  Australia	Allison Jones  United States
	C4	Susan Powell  Australia	Megan Fisher  United States	Alexandra Green  Australia
	C5	Sarah Storey  Great Britain	Anna Harkowska  Poland	Fiona Southorn  New Zealand

Mixed events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team Sprint details	C1-5	China (CHN) Xiaofei Ji Xinyang Liu Hao Xie	Great Britain (GBR) Jon-Allan Butterworth Darren Kenny Richard Waddon	United States (USA) Joseph Berenyi Sam Kavanagh Jennifer Schuble

See also

• Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics