Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's track time trial
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| Road race | men | women |
| Time trial | men | women |
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| Track time trial | men | women |
| Individual pursuit | men | women |
| Team pursuit | men | |
| Sprint | men | women |
| Team sprint | men | |
| Points race | men | women |
| Keirin | men | |
| Madison | men | |
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| Cross-country | men | women |
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.[1]
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.
Medalists[edit]
 Gold
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 Silver
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 Bronze
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 Anna Meares (AUS)
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 Jiang Yonghua (CHN)
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 Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR)
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Records[edit]
Anna Meares's time of 33.952 seconds in the event set a new world record, beatingJiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.
| World Record | Jiang Yonghua (CHN) | Kumming, China P.R. | 34.000 s | 11 August 2002 |
| Olympic Record | Félicia Ballanger (FRA) | Sydney, Australia | 34.140 s | 16 September 2000 |
Results[edit]
| Rank | Race Number |
Name | Country | 250 m Time |
500 m Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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3 | Anna Meares | Australia |
19.164 | 33.952 WR |
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7 | Jiang Yonghua | China |
19.192 | 34.112 |
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4 | Natallia Tsylinskaya | Belarus |
19.305 | 34.167 |
| 4 | 23 | Simona Krupeckaitė |  Lithuania |
19.517 | 34.317 |
| 5 | 26 | Yvonne Hijgenaar |  Netherlands |
19.519 | 34.532 |
| 6 | 16 | Victoria Pendleton |  Great Britain |
19.696 | 34.626 |
| 7 | 6 | Lori-Ann Muenzer |  Canada |
19.630 | 34.628 |
| 8 | 24 | Nancy Contreras Reyes |  Mexico |
19.523 | 34.783 |
| 9 | 32 | Svetlana Grankovskaya |  Russia |
19.739 | 34.797 |
| 10 | 21 | Sayuri Osuga |  Japan |
19.704 | 35.045 |
| 11 | 17 | Katrin Meinke |  Germany |
19.789 | 35.088 |
| 12 | 30 | Tamilla Abassova | Russia |
19.982 | 35.147 |
See also[edit]
- Track time trial
- Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial
- Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Cycling at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Women's 500 metres Time Trial". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
