CYCLING AT THE 2004 SUMMER OLYMPICS - WOMEN'S TRACK TIME TRIAL

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The 'women's 500 metre time trial' in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twelve cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for two laps (500 metres) of the track.
In a field of personal bests, 20 year old World Champion for the 500 m time trial, Anna Meares from Australia, set a new world record to claim the gold medal in 33.952 seconds. The previous world record was held by Yonghua Jiang of China, who minutes previously had set a new Olympic record in this event to claim the silver medal with a time of 34.112 seconds. Natallia Tsylinskaya from Belarus was awarded the bronze medal.

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Medalists

Records

Results

Medalists

Records

Anna Meares's time of 33.952 in the event set a new world record, bettering Jiang Yonghua's world record and Felicia Ballanger's Olympic record.

World Record	Jiang Yonghua (CHN)	Kumming, China P.R.	34.000 s	August 11 2002
Olympic Record	Felicia Ballanger (FRA)	Sydney, Australia	34.140 s	September 16 2000

Results

Rank	Race Number	Name	250 m Time	500 m Time
1	3		19.164	33.952 'WR'
2	7		19.192	34.112
3	4		19.305	34.167
4	23		19.517	34.317
5	26		19.519	34.532
6	16		19.696	34.626
7	6		19.630	34.628
8	24		19.523	34.783
9	32		19.739	34.797
10	21		19.704	35.045
11	17		19.789	35.088
12	30		19.982	35.147