Track time trial at the Olympics

Track time trial at the Olympic Games
The first track time trial winner, Paul Masson, in 1896
Overview
Sport	Cycling
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1896, 1928–2004 Women: 2000–2004
Reigning champion
Men	Chris Hoy (GBR)
Women	Anna Meares (AUS)

The track time trial is a defunct track cycling event formerly held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was not held again until 1928, when it became a consistent part of the programme and was held every year from then until 2004, after which the event was eliminated. A women's version was added in 2000, being held only twice before being eliminated along with the men's event after 2004. The distance of the time trial was one kilometre for men (except 1896, when it was one-third of a kilometre) and half a kilometre for women.

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens	Paul Masson  France	Stamatios Nikolopoulos  Greece	Adolf Schmal  Austria
1928 Amsterdam	Willy Hansen  Denmark	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein  Netherlands	Dunc Gray  Australia
1932 Los Angeles	Dunc Gray  Australia	Jacques van Egmond  Netherlands	Charles Rampelberg  France
1936 Berlin	Arie van Vliet  Netherlands	Pierre Georget  France	Rudolf Karsch  Germany
1948 London	Jacques Dupont  France	Pierre Nihant  Belgium	Tommy Godwin  Great Britain
1952 Helsinki	Russell Mockridge  Australia	Marino Morettini  Italy	Raymond Robinson  South Africa
1956 Melbourne	Leandro Faggin  Italy	Ladislav Fouček  Czechoslovakia	Alfred Swift  South Africa
1960 Rome	Sante Gaiardoni  Italy	Dieter Gieseler  United Team of Germany	Rostislav Vargashkin  Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo	Patrick Sercu  Belgium	Giovanni Pettenella  Italy	Pierre Trentin  France
1968 Mexico City	Pierre Trentin  France	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Janusz Kierzkowski  Poland
1972 Munich	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Daniel Clark  Australia	Jürgen Schütze  East Germany
1976 Montreal	Klaus-Jürgen Grünke  East Germany	Michel Vaarten  Belgium	Niels Fredborg  Denmark
1980 Moscow	Lothar Thoms  East Germany	Aleksandr Panfilov  Soviet Union	David Weller  Jamaica
1984 Los Angeles	Fredy Schmidtke  West Germany	Curt Harnett  Canada	Fabrice Colas  France
1988 Seoul	Aleksandr Kirichenko  Soviet Union	Martin Vinnicombe  Australia	Robert Lechner  West Germany
1992 Barcelona	José Manuel Moreno  Spain	Shane Kelly  Australia	Erin Hartwell  United States
1996 Atlanta	Florian Rousseau  France	Erin Hartwell  United States	Takanobu Jumonji  Japan
2000 Sydney	Jason Queally  Great Britain	Stefan Nimke  Germany	Shane Kelly  Australia
2004 Athens	Chris Hoy  Great Britain	Arnaud Tournant  France	Stefan Nimke  Germany

Multiple medalists

Rank	Cyclist	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Niels Fredborg	Denmark (DEN)	1968–1976	1	1	1	3
2	Dunc Gray	Australia (AUS)	1928–1932	1	0	1	2
	Pierre Trentin	France (FRA)	1964–1968	1	0	1	2
4	Erin Hartwell	United States (USA)	1992–1996	0	1	1	2
	Shane Kelly	Australia (AUS)	1992–2000	0	1	1	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	4	2	3	9
2	Australia (AUS)	2	3	2	7
3	Italy (ITA)	2	2	0	4
4	Denmark (DEN)	2	1	1	4
5	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	1	3
	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	1	3
7	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	0	3
	Netherlands (NED)	1	2	0	3
9	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	1	3
10	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
11	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
12	Germany (GER)	0	1	2	3
13	United States (USA)	0	1	1	2
14	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	0	1
18	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	2	2
19	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2000 Sydney	Felicia Ballanger  France	Michelle Ferris  Australia	Jiang Cuihua  China
2004 Athens	Anna Meares  Australia	Jiang Yonghua  China	Natallia Tsylinskaya  Belarus

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
2	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
3	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
4	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1

Olympic record progression

Men

See also: World record progression track cycling – Men's 1 km time trial

Time	Cyclist	Nation	Games	Date
1:16.0	Octave Dayen	France (FRA)	1928	1928-08-05
1:15.2	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein	Netherlands (NED)	1928	1928-08-05
1:14.4	Willy Hansen	Denmark (DEN)	1928	1928-08-05
1:13.0	Dunc Gray	Australia (AUS)	1932	1932-08-01
1:12.0	Arie van Vliet	Netherlands (NED)	1936	1936-08-08
1:11.1	Russell Mockridge	Australia (AUS)	1952	1952-07-31
1:09.8	Leandro Faggin	Italy (ITA)	1956	1956-12-06
1:09.20	Piet van der Touw	Netherlands (NED)	1960	1960-08-26
1:08.75	Dieter Gieseler	Germany (GER)	1960	1960-08-26
1:07.27 WR	Sante Gaiardoni	Italy (ITA)	1960	1960-08-26
1:04.65	Gianni Sartori	Italy (ITA)	1968	1968-10-17
1:04.61	Niels Fredborg	Denmark (DEN)	1968	1968-10-17
1:03.91 WR	Pierre Trentin	France (FRA)	1968	1968-10-17
1:02.955 WR	Lothar Thoms	East Germany (GDR)	1980	1980-07-22
1:02.940	Erin Hartwell	United States (USA)	1996	1996-07-24
1:02.712	Florian Rousseau	France (FRA)	1996	1996-07-24
1:01.609	Jason Queally	Great Britain (GBR)	2000	2000-09-16
1:00.896	Arnaud Tournant	France (FRA)	2004	2004-08-20
1:00.711	Chris Hoy	Great Britain (GBR)	2004	2004-08-20

Women

See also: World record progression track cycling – Women's 500 m time trial

Time	Cyclist	Nation	Games	Date
35.728	Daniela Larreal	Venezuela (VEN)	2000	2000-09-16
35.230	Chris Witty	United States (USA)	2000	2000-09-16
35.013	Wang Yan	China (CHN)	2000	2000-09-16
34.696	Michelle Ferris	Australia (AUS)	2000	2000-09-16
34.140	Felicia Ballanger	France (FRA)	2000	2000-09-16
34.112	Jiang Yonghua	China (CHN)	2004	2004-08-20
33.952 WR	Anna Meares	Australia (AUS)	2004	2004-08-20

Intercalated Games

The 1906 Intercalated Games were held in Athens and at the time were officially recognised as part of the Olympic Games series, with the intention being to hold a games in Greece in two-year intervals between the internationally held Olympics. However, this plan never came to fruition and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later decided not to recognise these games as part of the official Olympic series. Some sports historians continue to treat the results of these games as part of the Olympic canon.

Francesco Verri of Italy won the 1906 title, with Herbert Crowther of Great Britain in second and Henri Menjou of France third.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1906 Athens	Francesco Verri (ITA)	Herbert Crowther (GBR)	Henri Menjou (FRA)