| Women's cross-country at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad |
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| Venue | Laoshan Mountain Bike Course | |||||||||
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| Dates | August 23 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 21 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:45:11 | |||||||||
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The women's cross-country at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course on August 23 at 10:00 (UTC+8).[1]
The event was a mass-start contest consisting of multiple laps around the course. Only a final was held, with the first cyclist to the finish line, after six laps of the course, being the winner. Cyclists who were lapped finished the lap they were on, then exited the course.[2]
Sabine Spitz (Germany) opened up a one-minute lead on the field at the end of the second lap and stayed out in front to the end to claim the gold medal. Of the 30 competitors who began the event only 18 completed the full distance.
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| Cycling at the 2008 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 | |||
| Points race | men | women | ||
| Keirin | men | |||
| Madison | men | |||
| Mountain biking |
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| Cross-country | men | women | ||
| BMX |
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| BMX | men | women | ||
| Rank | Rider | Time[3] |
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| Sabine Spitz (GER) | 1:45:11 | |
| Maja Włoszczowska (POL) | 1:45:52 | |
| Irina Kalentieva (RUS) | 1:46:28 | |
| 4 | Catharine Pendrel (CAN) | 1:46:37 |
| 5 | Chengyuan Ren (CHN) | 1:47:40 |
| 6 | Petra Henzi (SUI) | 1:48:41 |
| 7 | Mary McConneloug (USA) | 1:50:34 |
| 8 | Georgia Gould (USA) | 1:50:51 |
| 9 | Rosara Joseph (NZL) | 1:51:07 |
| 10 | Aleksandra Dawidowicz (POL) | 1:51:21 |
| 11 | Elisabeth Osl (AUT) | 1:51:39 |
| 12 | Ying Liu (CHN) | 1:52:01 |
| 13 | Lene Byberg (NOR) | 1:53:19 |
| 14 | Elsbeth van Rooy-Vink (NED) | 1:53:30 |
| 15 | Nathalie Schneitter (SUI) | 1:53:42 |
| 16 | Eva Lechner (ITA) | 1:58:22 |
| 17 | Laurence Leboucher (FRA) | 2:00:55 |
| 18 | Adelheid Morath (GER) | 2:02:25 |
Four riders abandoned the race, and eight were lapped while on the course and therefore made to stop.