Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's individual road race
| Women's cycling road race at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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 The three medal winners in the closing stages of the race | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Central and southwest London and north Surrey[1] 140.3 kilometres (87.2 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Date | 29 July 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 66 from 36 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:35:29 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The women's road race, one of the cycling events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, took place on 29 July[2] over a course starting and ending on The Mall[3] and heading out of London into Surrey.[4] Nicole Cooke of Great Britain was the defending champion.
In heavy rain, the race and gold medal was won by
Start list
The provisional start list of 67 riders was published on 23 July.
Race
The race started at 12:00 British Summer Time (UTC+01:00). The weather was cool and it was very rainy. At both the start and finish of the race it was pouring down with rain.[9] Due to the bad weather, the race saw a lot of punctures and incidents which caused riders to lose valuable time.[9]
After an unsuccessful attack from
Final classification
In the table below, "s.t." indicates that the rider crossed the finish line in the same group as the cyclist before her, and was therefore credited with the same finishing time.
- Over time limit (OTL)
- Under UCI regulations for one-day road races (article 2.3.039), "Any rider finishing in a time exceeding that of the winner by more than 5% shall not be placed".[11] Applying this to the winning time of Marianne Vos resulted in a time limit of 3:45:15.
Gallery
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The Dutch Team (Loes Gunnewijk, Ellen van Dijk, Annemiek van Vleuten and Marianne Vos) before the race -
The peloton in southwest London, near the beginning of the women's road race -
The peloton through Abinger Hammer
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References
- ^ "Olympic road race route officially revealed". Cycling Weekly. 10 February 2011. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
This extends the Games into the South West of London and Surrey
- ^ "Olympic sport competition schedule". London 2012. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ^ "The Mall | Venues". London 2012. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ "Road Race format competition". London 2012. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ^ "Vos wins thrilling Road Race". London 2012. 29 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ "London 2012 Olympic Games: Women's road race start list". cyclingweekly.co.uk. 23 July 2012.
- ^ "Women's road race". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "BDR benennt Frauen-Aufgebot". sport1.de (in German). 28 July 2012. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ a b c "Olympic road race: women's cycling – as it happened". The Guardian. London. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ^ "individual road race women results – Cycling Road – London 2012 Olympics". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
- ^ UCI Cycling Regulations, Part II: Road Races, UCI, 1 February 2012, p. 31
External links
- Women's Road Race Archived 5 December 2012 at archive.today at the London 2012 website
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