| Men's 20 kilometres at the Games of the IV Olympiad |
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| Venue | White City Stadium | |||||||||
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| Date | July 14 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 44 from 10 nations | |||||||||
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| Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics |
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| Track cycling |
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| 660 yards | men | |
| 5000 metres | men | |
| 20 kilometres | men | |
| 100 kilometres | men | |
| Sprint | men | |
| Tandem | men | |
| Team pursuit | men | |
The men's 20 kilometres was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the second longest of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 40 minutes.
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There were two methods of qualifying for the final. A cyclist could either finish first in one of the six semifinals or be the leader "of the greatest number of laps in the three fastest heats[1]."
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Leon Meredith | Great Britain | 33:21.0 |
| 2 | Hermann Martens | Germany | 33:21.2 |
| 3 | Joseph Werbrouck | Belgium | 33:21.4 |
| 4 | André Lapize | France | Unknown |
| 5 | Georgius Damen | Netherlands | Unknown |
| 6 | Frederick McCarthy | Canada | Unknown |
| 7-8 | Pierre Hostein | France | Unknown |
| Rudolf Katzer | Germany | Unknown | |
| — | Daniel Flynn | Great Britain | Did not finish |
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Clarence Kingsbury | Great Britain | 32:33.8 |
| 2 | Colin Brooks | Great Britain | 32:34.0 |
| 3 | Floris Venter | South Africa | 32:34.4 |
| 4 | G. C. Lutz | France | Unknown |
| 5 | Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein | Netherlands | Unknown |
| 6 | François Bonnet | France | Unknown |
| 7-9 | Walter Andrews | Canada | Unknown |
| Jean van Benthem | Belgium | Unknown | |
| Paul Schulze | Germany | Unknown |
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Louis Weintz | United States | 33:39.8 |
| 2 | F. Shore | South Africa | 33:40.0 |
| 3 | Harry Young | Canada | 33:45.2 |
| 4 | Herbert Bouffler | Great Britain | Unknown |
| 5 | Max Triebsch | Germany | Unknown |
| 6-7 | H. Cunault | France | Unknown |
| Dorus Nijland | Netherlands | Unknown | |
| — | Frederick Hamlin | Great Britain | Did not finish |
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Benjamin Jones | Great Britain | 32:39.0 |
| 2 | George Cameron | United States | 32:39.2 |
| 3 | T. H. E. Passmore | South Africa | 32:39.4 |
| 4 | Octave Lapize | France | Unknown |
| 5 | Henri Baumler | France | Unknown |
| 6-7 | Alwin Boldt | Germany | Unknown |
| Johannes van Spengen | Netherlands | Unknown | |
| — | W. Lower | Great Britain | Did not finish |
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Andrew Hansson | Sweden | 34:53.6 |
| 2 | D. C. Robertson | Great Britain | 34:53.8 |
| 3 | William Anderson | Canada | 34:55.6 |
| — | Ioannis Santorinaios | Greece | Did not finish |
| Pierre Texier | France | Did not finish |
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Arthur J. Denny | Great Britain | 33:40.6 |
| 2 | C. Avrillon | France | 33:40.8 |
| 3 | Gustaf Westerberg | Sweden | 33:41.4 |
| 4 | Guglielmo Morisetti | Italy | Unknown |
| — | Léon Couckelberg | Belgium | Disqualified |
| Place | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
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| 1 | Clarence Kingsbury | Great Britain | 34:13.6 |
| 2 | Benjamin Jones | Great Britain | Unknown |
| 3 | Joseph Werbrouck | Belgium | Unknown |
| 4 | Louis Weintz | United States | Unknown |
| 5-9 | François Bonnet | France | Unknown |
| Arthur Denny | Great Britain | Unknown | |
| Andrew Hansson | Sweden | Unknown | |
| Octave Lapize | France | Unknown | |
| Leon Meredith | Great Britain | Unknown |