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CYCLING AT THE 1908 SUMMER OLYMPICS

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, flooding the track on occasionOfficial Report, p. 113.. The track was 660 yards long (being built around the perimeter of the White City Stadium's athletics track); some events (the 660 yards and the team pursuit) used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.

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Medal summary
Medal table
Notes

Medal summary


660 yards
5000 metres
20 kilometres
100 kilometres
Sprint
''No medalists - race declared void as time limit was exceeded in final''
Tandem

Andre Auffray
Maurice Schilles

Frederick Hamlin
Horace Johnson

Colin Brooks
Walter Isaacs
Team pursuit

Benjamin Jones
Clarence Kingsbury
Leonard Meredith
Ernest Payne

Max Götze
Rudolf Katzer
Hermann Martens
Karl Neumer

William Anderson
Walter Andrews
Frederick McCarthy
William Morton

Medal table


1 5 3 1 9
2 1 2 2 5
3 0 1 1 2
4 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1

Greece, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States had cyclists compete, but won no medals.

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