| Men's cycling road race at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad |
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| Venue | Athens | |||||||||
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| Date | August 14 | |||||||||
| Competitors | TBD from TBD nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 5:41:44 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| «2000 | 2008» | |||||||||
| Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics |
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| Road cycling |
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| Road race | men | women | ||
| Time trial | men | women | ||
| Track cycling |
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| Individual pursuit | men | women | ||
| Team pursuit | men | |||
| Sprint | men | women | ||
| Team sprint | men | |||
| Time trial | men | women | ||
| Points race | men | women | ||
| Keirin | men | |||
| Madison | men | |||
| Mountain biking |
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| Cross-country | men | women | ||
Men's Road Race at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Cycling). In a race that showed numerous break away attempts, it wasn't until Paolo Bettini and Sérgio Paulinho broke away from the group with a couple of laps remaining and opened up a comfortable gap on the final lap that an idea of the medal positions could be gained. With the peloton giving up the chase of the leaders, Axel Merckx broke away to open up a sufficient gap for him to take bronze. Bettini out sprinted Paulinho for the gold, finishing in a time of 5 hours 41 minutes and 44 seconds. Among the other pre-race favourites, World Champion Igor Astarloa of Spain crashed on the opening lap, and 2000 Olympic road race champion Jan Ullrich finished among the peloton in 19th place. A number of other top names in the field, including Germany's Andreas Klöden and Russia's Viatcheslav Ekimov, pulled out before the end of the race, presumably with the Time Trial race, to be held four days later, in mind.
Date: August 14
Start: 12:45
| Rank | Rider | Time |
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| 1 | Paolo Bettini (ITA) | 5h 41′ 44″ |
| 2 | Sérgio Paulinho (POR) | 5h 41′ 45″ |
| 3 | Axel Merckx (BEL) | 5h 41′ 52″ |
| 4 | Erik Zabel (GER) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| 5 | Andrej Hauptman (SLO) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| 6 | Kim Kirchen (LUX) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| 7 | Roger Hammond (GBR) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| 8 | Frank Høj (DEN) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| 9 | Kurt Asle Arvesen (NOR) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| 10 | Alexandr Kolobnev (RUS) | 5h 41′ 56″ |
| Final Classification (11–75) | |||
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| 11 | Robbie McEwen (AUS) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 12 | Markus Zberg (SUI) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 13 | Ciarán Power (IRL) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 14 | Marcus Ljungqvist (SWE) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 15 | Julian Dean (NZL) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 16 | Fränk Schleck (LUX) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 17 | Max van Heeswijk (NED) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 18 | Tyler Hamilton (USA) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 19 | Jan Ullrich (GER) | 5h 41′ 56″″ | |
| 20 | Thomas Voeckler (FRA) | 5h 41′ 56″″ | |
| 21 | Serhiy Honchar (UKR) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 22 | Georg Totschnig (AUT) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 23 | Kyrylo Pospyeyev (UKR) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 24 | George Hincapie (USA) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 25 | Bo Hamburger (DEN) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 26 | Tadej Valjavec (SLO) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 27 | Nuno Ribeiro (POR) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 28 | Bobby Julich (USA) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 29 | Martin Elmiger (SUI) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 30 | Gerhard Trampusch (AUT) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 31 | Santiago Botero (COL) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 32 | Michael Barry (CAN) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 33 | Stuart O'Grady (AUS) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 34 | Unai Etxebarria (VEN) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 35 | Alexandre Vinokourov (KAZ) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 36 | Luis Felipe Laverde (COL) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 37 | Evgeni Petrov (RUS) | 5h 41′ 56″ | |
| 38 | Daniele Nardello (ITA) | 5h 42′ 03″ | |
| 39 | Luca Paolini (ITA) | 5h 42′ 03″ | |
| 40 | Peter van Petegem (BEL) | 5h 42′ 03″ | |
| 41 | Erik Dekker (NED) | 5h 42′ 29″ | |
| 42 | Romāns Vainšteins (LAT) | 5h 43′ 03″ | |
| 43 | Gorazd Stangelj (SLO) | 5h 43′ 20″ | |
| 44 | Laurent Brochard (FRA) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 45 | Benoît Joachim (LUX) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 46 | Cristian Moreni (ITA) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 47 | Alejandro Valverde (ESP) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 48 | Richard Virenque (FRA) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 49 | Philippe Gilbert (BEL) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 50 | Uroš Murn (SLO) | 5h 44′ 13″ | |
| 51 | Gerrit Glomser (AUT) | 5h 45′ 21″ | |
| 52 | Karsten Kroon (NED) | 5h 47′ 13″ | |
| 53 | Sergey Yakovlev (KAZ) | 5h 48′ 48″ | |
| 54 | Ruslan Ivanov (MDA) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 55 | Lars Michaelsen (DEN) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 56 | Tomasz Brozyna (POL) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 57 | Yasutaka Tashiro (JPN) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 58 | Rene Andrle (CZE) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 59 | Sergey Lagutin (UZB) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 60 | Nicki Soerensen (DEN) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 61 | Janek Tombak (EST) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 62 | Murilo Fischer (BRA) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 63 | Jan Svorada (CZE) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 64 | Jens Voigt (GER) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 65 | Ondřej Sosenka (CZE) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 66 | Igor Pugaci (MDA) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 67 | Filippo Pozzato (ITA) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 68 | Yaroslav Popovych (UKR) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 69 | Ryan Cox (RSA) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 70 | Andrey Kashechkin (KAZ) | 5h 50′ 35″ | |
| 71 | Martin Riska (SVK) | 5h 51′ 28″ | |
| 72 | Gustav Erik Larsson (SWE) | 5h 51′ 28″ | |
| 73 | Andrey Mizourov (KAZ) | 5h 51′ 28″ | |
| 74 | László Bodrogi (HUN) | 5h 56′ 45″ | |
| 75 | Dawid Krupa (POL) | 6h 00′ 25″ | |