Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's cross-country

Women's cross-country cycling at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Hadleigh Farm
Date	11 August 2012
Competitors	30 from 24 nations
Medalists
Julie Bresset  France Sabine Spitz  Germany Georgia Gould  United States
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The women's cross-country cycling event at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place at Hadleigh Farm on 11 August.

Julie Bresset from France won the gold medal — the country's first in cycling at the 2012 Games. Germany's Sabine Spitz won silver and Georgia Gould of the United States took bronze.

Competition format

The competition began at 12:30 pm with a mass-start, and involved six laps around the 4.8 km course at Hadleigh Farm in Essex.^[1] The distance of the race was 29.3 km.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time

Result

The entry list was published on 26 July.^[2]

Rank	Rider	Country	Time
	Julie Bresset	France	1:30:52
	Sabine Spitz	Germany	1:31:54
	Georgia Gould	United States	1:32:00
4	Irina Kalentieva	Russia	1:32:33
5	Esther Süss	Switzerland	1:32:46
6	Alexandra Engen	Sweden	1:33:08
7	Aleksandra Dawidowicz	Poland	1:33:20
8	Annie Last	Great Britain	1:33:47
9	Catharine Pendrel	Canada	1:34:28
10	Tanja Žakelj	Slovenia	1:34:41
11	Lea Davison	United States	1:35:14
12	Shi Qinglan	China	1:35:28
13	Yana Belomoyna	Ukraine	1:35:46
14	Kateřina Nash	Czech Republic	1:36:22
15	Elisabeth Osl	Austria	1:36:47
16	Adelheid Morath	Germany	1:37:17
17	Eva Lechner	Italy	1:37:36
18	Karen Hanlen	New Zealand	1:37:54
19	Katrin Leumann	Switzerland	1:38:23
20	Rie Katayama	Japan	1:38:26
21	Janka Števková	Slovakia	1:39:05
22	Paula Gorycka	Poland	1:39:18
DSQ	Blaža Klemenčič	Slovenia	1:39:42
23	Emily Batty	Canada	1:40:37
24	Rebecca Henderson	Australia	1:41:35
25	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	France	1:42:21
26	Barbara Benkó	Hungary	1:43:24
27	Candice Neethling	South Africa	1:45:03
–	Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå	Norway	DNF
–	Laura Abril	Colombia	DNF
–	Annika Langvad	Denmark	DNS[3]

References

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