Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The men's road race, one of the cycling events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, took place on 28 July at 10 a.m. in central and southwest London and north Surrey,[2] starting and finishing on The Mall.[3]
Men's cycling road race at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Venue | Central and southwest London and north Surrey[1] 250 km (155.3 mi) | ||||||||||||
Date | 28 July 2012 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 144 from 63 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 5:45:57 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
This was the 19th appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932; the time trial had been re-introduced in 1996 alongside the road race
Samuel Sánchez of Spain would have been the defending champion, but due to an injury incurred at the 2012 Tour de France he could not compete.[4]
The race was won by Kazakhstan's Alexander Vinokourov. He sprinted clear of Colombia's Rigoberto Urán, who claimed the silver medal. Alexander Kristoff of Norway won the sprint from the following group to take bronze.[5] Vinokourov was the first man (and, through the 2016 Games, only; multiple women have done so) to win multiple medals in the event; he had previously taken silver in 2000.