Olympic Records in Cycling

Olympic Records in Cycling: Cycling was included in the schedule of the Summer Games in the 1896 Summer Games . Since then, cycling has been a regular event in the Olympics ' program. Many records have been made in various events of cycling in the Summer Games .

The current Olympic records in various men's events of track cycling are as follows-

Men's records

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place
Flying 200 m time trial (progression)	9.713	Jason Kenny	Great Britain	4 Aug 2012	2012 Olympic Games	London, Great Britain
4000 m team pursuit (progression)	3:51.659	Ed Clancy Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh Geraint Thomas	Great Britain	3 Aug 2012	2012 Olympic Games	London, Great Britain
Team sprint (progression)	42.6	Philip Hindes Chris Hoy Jason Kenny	Great Britain	2 Aug 2012	2012 Olympic Games	London, Great Britain
4000 m individual pursuit (progression)	0.0029517477	Bradley Wiggins	Great Britain	15 Aug 2008	2008 Olympic Games	Beijing, China
1 km time trial (progression)	0.0007026736	Chris Hoy	Great Britain	20 Aug 2004	2004 Olympic Games	Athens, Greece

Women's records

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place
Flying 200 m time trial (progression)	10.724	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain	5 Aug 2012	2012 Olympic Games	London, Great Britain
3000m team pursuit* (progression)	3:14.051	Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell	Great Britain	4 Aug 2012	2012 Olympic Games	London, Great Britain
Team sprint (progression)	32.422	Gong Jinjie Guo Shuang	China	2 Aug 2012	2012 Olympic Games	London, Great Britain
3000 m individual pursuit (progression)	0.0023673264	Sarah Ulmer	New Zealand	22 Aug 2004	2004 Olympic Games	Athens, Greece
500 m time trial (progression)	33.952	Anna Meares	Australia	20 Aug 2004	2004 Olympic Games	Athens, Greece

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_records_in_cycling
https://www.mapsofworld.com/sports/olympics/records/olympic-records-cycling.html

Last Updated On : January 22, 2016

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