Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 kilometres

The men's 100 kilometres was one of seven track cycling

Track cycling

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events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, flooding the track on occasion. The track was 660 yards long ; some events used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.-Medal summary:-Medal...

programme. Its distance was the longest of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 3 hours and 15 minutes. A challenge cup was presented by the Prince of Wales to the winner.

Semifinal 1

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Andrew Hansson		2:50:21.4
2	G. C. Lutz		Unknown
3	Sydney Bailey		Unknown
4	Pierre Texier		Unknown
5	J. H. Bishop		Unknown
6	D. C. Robertson		Unknown
7-14	William Anderson		Unknown
	Alwin Boldt		Unknown
	François Bonnet		Unknown
	Georgius Damen		Unknown
	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein		Unknown
	André Lepere		Unknown
	Harry Mussen		Unknown
	J. Norman		Unknown
—	Rudolf Katzer Rudolf Katzer Rudolf Katzer was a German track cycling racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.With his teammates Karl Neumer, Max Götze and Hermann Martens he won the silver medal in the team pursuit. He also competed in the 660 yards sprint, in the 5000 metres race, and in the 20 kilometres race, but...		Did not finish
	Frederick McCarthy		Did not finish
	Ioannis Santorinaios		Did not finish

Semifinal 2

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Leon Meredith		2:43:15.4
2	Charles Bartlett Charles Henry Bartlett Charles Henry Bartlett was a British track cyclist. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics where he won the gold medal in the 100 kilometres competition, completing the course in a time of 2 hours 41 minutes and 48.6 seconds.-References:...		Unknown
3	Gustaf Westerberg		Unknown
4	Octave Lapize Octave Lapize Octave Lapize was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.In his first...		Unknown
5	Walter Andrews		Unknown
6	William Pett		Unknown
7-9	Guillaume Coeckelberg		Unknown
	Charles Denny		Unknown
	Harry Young		Unknown
—	Luigi Arizini		Did not finish
	Charles Avrillon		Did not finish
	H. Cunault		Did not finish
	Bruno Götze		Did not finish
	Pierre Hostein		Did not finish
	R. Jolly		Did not finish
	J. Madeleine		Did not finish
	Guglielmo Malatesta		Did not finish
	Hermann Martens Hermann Martens Hermann Martens was a German track cyclist who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He won the silver medal together with his teammates Karl Neumer, Max Götze, and Rudolf Katzer in the team pursuit...		Did not finish
	William Morton		Did not finish
	Dorus Nijland		Did not finish
	David Noon		Did not finish
	Battista Parini		Did not finish
	T. H. E. Passmore		Did not finish
	Paul Schulze		Did not finish
	Max Triebsch		Did not finish
	Louis Weintz		Did not finish

Final

Place	Cyclist	Nation	Time
1	Charles Bartlett		2:41:48.6
2	Charles Denny		Unknown
3	Octave Lapize		Unknown
4	William Pett		Unknown
5	Pierre Texier		Unknown
6	Walter Andrews		Unknown
7	D. C. Robertson		Unknown
8	Sydney Bailey		Unknown
—	J. H. Bishop		Did not finish
	François Bonnet		Did not finish
	Guillaume Coeckelberg		Did not finish
	Andrew Hansson		Did not finish
	G. C. Lutz		Did not finish
	Leon Meredith		Did not finish
	Harry Mussen		Did not finish
	Gustaf Westerberg		Did not finish
	Harry Young		Did not finish

Sources

De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .

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