The women's 500 metre time trial in cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twelve cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for two laps (500 metres) of the track.
In a field of personal bests, 20-year-old World Champion for the 500 m time trial, Anna Meares from Australia, set a new world record to claim the gold medal in 33.952 seconds. The previous world record was held by Yonghua Jiang of China, who minutes previously had set a new Olympic record in this event to claim the silver medal with a time of 34.112 seconds. Natallia Tsylinskaya from Belarus was awarded the bronze medal.
Medalists Gold Silver Bronze
Records Anna Meares's time of 33.952 seconds in the event set a new world record, beatingJiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.
World Record Jiang Yonghua (CHN) Kunming, China P.R. 34.000 s 11 August 2002 Olympic Record Félicia Ballanger (FRA) Sydney, Australia 34.140 s 16 September 2000
Results +Final results Rank Race Number Name Country 250 mTime 500 mTime 3 Anna Meares 19.164 33.952 WR 7 Jiang Yonghua 19.192 34.112 4 Natallia Tsylinskaya 19.305 34.167 4 23 Simona Krupeckaitė 19.517 34.317 5 26 Yvonne Hijgenaar 19.519 34.532 6 16 Victoria Pendleton 19.696 34.626 7 6 Lori-Ann Muenzer 19.630 34.628 8 24 Nancy Contreras Reyes 19.523 34.783 9 32 Svetlana Grankovskaya 19.739 34.797 10 21 Sayuri Osuga 19.704 35.045 11 17 Katrin Meinke 19.789 35.088 12 30 Tamilla Abassova 19.982 35.147
See also Track time trial Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX
References
External links Official Olympic Report