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Cycling At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Madison
The Madison (cycling), men's Madison at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held on 19 August at the Laoshan Velodrome. This track cycling event consists of a single race. This race is a 50 kilometre, 200 lap race. Cyclists compete in pairs, with one resting as the other rides. Placing is determined first by laps, then by points. Points are awarded based on intermediate sprints held every 20 laps. The first finisher in each sprint earns 5 points, the second gets 3, the third finisher earns 2, and the fourth place cyclist after each sprint gets 1 point. Ties after both laps and points are broken by the placing in the last sprint. Argentina wins the gold medal. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's Madison Track cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's madison Men's events at the 2008 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track Cycling
Track cycling is a Cycle sport, bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it was held on velodromes similar to the ones used today. These velodromes consisted of two straights and slightly banked turns, though they varied more in length and material than the modern 250 m track. One appeal of indoor track racing was that spectators could be easily controlled, and hence an entrance fee could be charged, making track racing a lucrative sport. Early track races attracted crowds of up to 2,000 people. Indoor tracks also enabled year-round cycling for the first time. The main early centers for track racing in Britain were Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester and London. The most noticeable changes in over a century of track cycling have concerned the bikes themselves, engineered to be lighter and more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mørkøv
Michael Mørkøv Christensen (; born 30 April 1985) is a Danish former Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2005 to 2024. He is the brother of racing cyclists Jacob and Jesper Mørkøv. Career Born in Kokkedal, Mørkøv started as a track cyclist, becoming national champion in the points race in 2004. In the 2008 Olympic games, he won the silver medal in the team pursuit. As a road cyclist, Mørkøv became national time trial champion in 2005. Mørkøv rode the 2010 Giro d'Italia, 2010 and 2011 Giro d'Italia, finishing both. Mørkøv rode his first Tour de France in 2012 Tour de France, 2012, drawing attention by featuring in the most important escapes of the first three stages, where he gained enough points to lead the Mountains classification in the Tour de France, mountains classification. He held polka-dot jersey until stage 7, where stage winner Chris Froome took it. In 2013, he won Stage 6 in the 2013 Vuelta a España, Vuelta a España. In Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Gilbert (cyclist)
Martin Gilbert (born October 30, 1982) is a Canadian former professional racing cyclist and Olympian. He competed in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics in the Men's Madison event, placing 12th. Major results ;2000 : 1st Prologue Tour de l'Abitibi ;2003 : National Under-23 Road Championships ::1st Road race ::3rd Time trial ;2005 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce : 8th Road race, Pan American Road Championships ;2006 : 9th Road race, Commonwealth Games ;2007 : 1st Road race, Pan American Road Championships ;2009 : 1st Stage 7 Tour of Missouri : 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Cuba ;2010 : 1st Stages 9 & 11 Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay : 1st Stages 5 & 15 Vuelta a Cuba : 7th Philadelphia International Championship ;2011 : 4th Châteauroux Classic The Châteauroux Classic de l'Indre Trophée Fenioux was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in the region of Indre, France, starting and finishing in Châteauroux. It was created in 2004 and since 2005 the race had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Bell
Zachary "Zach" Bell (born November 14, 1982) is a Canadian former professional racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2015 for the Jet Fuel Coffee–Sympatico, Rite Aid Pro Cycling, , , , , and teams. Born in Whitehorse, Yukon, Bell resides in Watson Lake, Yukon, and now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Team . Career At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Bell finished 7th in the men's points race and 12th in the men's madison (cycling). He finished 2nd in the men's omnium at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne. Later that year, Bell finished 8th in the men's omnium at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Major results ;2003 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Delta ;2004 : 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2005 : 1st Stampede Road Race ;2006 : 1st Stage 7 Tour of Shenandoah ;2007 : 1st Overall Tour de Delta ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Burnaby Six Days : Tour de Bowness ::1st Criterium ::1st Hill Climb : Vuelta a El Salvador ::1st Stages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Risi
Bruno Risi (born 6 September 1968) is a retired Swiss professional racing cyclist. He competed at five Olympic Games. Risi was one of the top six-day riders of his generation, he won many professional Madison events during his long career. He is the ninth Swiss sportsperson to compete at five Olympics (1988, 1996/2008), after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg, equestrian Christine Stückelberger, and Alpine skier Paul Accola, shooter Gabriele Bühlmann, and equestrian Markus Fuchs. Palmares ;1990 : 1st, Stage 5a, Circuit Franco-Belge, Wasquehal : World Amateur Points Race Championship ;1991 : World Amateur Points Race Champion : 1st, Giro del Lago Maggiore -GP Knorr- : 1st, Tour du Lac Léman ;1992 : World Points Race Champion : 1st, Six-Days of Dortmund (with Kurt Betschart) : 2nd, Overall, Niederösterreich Rundfahrt ;1993 : 1st, Six Days' of Dortmund, Ghent & München (with Kurt B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Marvulli
Franco Marvulli (born 11 November 1978 in Zürich) is a Swiss former professional racing cyclist. He won a silver medal in the Madison with Bruno Risi at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also a two time world champion in both the Madison, also with Bruno Risi, and in the scratch. He was also a successful six-day racer. He retired in January 2014, with his last race being the Six Days of Berlin. Major results ;2000 : 3rd, National U23 Time Trial Championship ;2001 : European Omnium Champion : 1st, Six-Days of Grenoble (with Alexander Äschbach) : 2nd, National Pursuit Championship ;2002 : World Scratch Champion : European Omnium Champion : 2nd, National Points Race Championship ;2003 : World Madison Champion (with Bruno Risi) : World Scratch Champion : European Omnium Champion : Team Pursuit Champion (with Aeschbach/Dunkel/ Kammermann) : Elimination Champion : Pursuit Champion : 1st, Six-Days of Grenoble & Moscou (with Alexander Äschbach) : 1st, Oberriet : 1st, Tro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayden Roulston
Hayden Roulston (born 10 January 1981) is a New Zealand former professional racing cyclist. He won the silver medal in the men's 4000 m individual pursuit and a bronze medal in the men's 4000 m team pursuit at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He won the New Zealand road cycling championships on four occasions (2006, 2011, 2013, 2014), the Tour of Southland on three occasions (2006, 2007, 2008) and came tenth in the 2010 edition of Paris - Roubaix. Professional career Roulston was a talented junior rider on both road and track and competed for New Zealand on the track and initially on the road for a club team in France. He turned professional with the French team in 2002 where he remained for two seasons before moving to for 2005. His season with Discovery Channel featured some impressive rides but was interrupted by injury and eventually ended when he resigned after an incident in a Christchurch bar. He attempted to relaunch his professional road career in the US when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Henderson
Gregory Henderson (born 10 September 1976) is a New Zealand former professional track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017. His career includes winning the scratch race at the 2004 world championships and, in road cycling, winning the points competition at the Tour de Georgia in 2005 and 2008. Henderson rode in five Olympic Games and completed 11 Grand Tours. He also competed in four Commonwealth Games and was a four-time medallist, including winning gold in the points race in 2002. During an important part of his career, he served as André Greipel's main lead-out man, and they were colleagues at both and later . In addition to 17 New Zealand track and road titles and eight World Cup track golds, Henderson has been New Zealand Track Cyclist of the Year (2001, 2002, 2003) and Athlete of the Year, Otago, New Zealand (2001, 2002, 2003). Career Track cycling At the 1998 Commonwealth Games Henderson won bronze medals in the points race and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Wiggins
Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins (born 28 April 1980) is a British former professional Road bicycle racing, road and track cycling, track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016. He began his cycling career on the track, but later made the transition to road cycling. He won world titles in four disciplines (Madison, individual pursuit, team pursuit and road time trial), and Olympic gold in three (individual pursuit, team pursuit and road time trial). He is the only rider to have won both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road as well as winning the Tour de France. He has worn the leader's jersey in each of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions. He won a gold medal at four successive Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, and held the record as Great Britain's most decorated Olympian with 8 medals until Jason Kenny won his 9th in 2021. He is the only rider to win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Cavendish
Sir Mark Simon Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a Manx people, Manx retired professional cyclist. As a Track cycling, track cyclist he specialised in the Madison (cycling), madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines; as a road racer he was a sprinter (cycling), sprinter. He is widely considered one of the greatest road sprinters of all time, and in 2021 was called "the greatest sprinter in the history of Tour de France, the Tour and of cycling" by Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France. In his first years as an elite track rider, Cavendish won gold in the madison at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, 2005 and 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships riding for Great Britain, with Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins respectively, and in the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games riding for Isle of Man. After failing to win a medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics he did not compete on track again until 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Schep
Pieter Otto ("Peter") Schep (born 8 March 1977 in Lopik, Utrecht) is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who specialized in track cycling endurance events. Biography Born in Lopik, Schep represented the Netherlands at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. In all three occasions he took part in the team pursuit. In 1996 he featured in a team with Jarich Bakker, Richard Rozendaal and Robert Slippens and finished in 12th position. A new team with Slippens, John den Braber, Jens Mouris and Wilco Zuijderwijk was created with success. The team improved their 2000 effort and reached the quarter finals where they were lapped by the team from Ukraine, resulting in a seventh place overall. Schep and Mouris also qualified for the same discipline in 2004, but this time they were joined by Levi Heimans and Jeroen Straathof. Yet again the previous effort was improved when the team finished fifth. Major results ;2000 :3rd Pursuit, Dutch National Track Championships :1st Stage 6, Olymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Mouris
Jens Mouris (born 12 March 1980) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist. Born in Amsterdam, Mouris represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he took part in the team pursuit together with John den Braber, Robert Slippens and Wilco Zuijderwijk. They ended up in seventh position after being lapped by Ukraine in the quarter-finals. Four years later Mouris qualified for the same disciplines to participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This time the new team featuring Levi Heimans, Peter Schep and Jeroen Straathof came fifth. Major results ;1998 : 2nd Points race, UCI Junior Track World Championships ;1999 : 1st Ronde van de Haarlemmermeer ;2000 : 1st Westfriese Dorpenomloop : 2nd Time trial, Dutch National Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd Kilo, Dutch National Track Championships ;2001 : 1st Joseph Sunde Memorial : 2nd Time trial, Dutch National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Ronde van Noord-Holland ;2002 : 1st Grote Rivierenp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
