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Olympic Bike Racing Schedule - Sorted by Event

By David Fiedler, About.com

Want to keep on top of all the Olympic bike racing events? Well, here's the complete schedule for cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, sorted by discipline. Click here if you want to see a daily schedule with precise start times of all events sorted by date

Road Bike Racing

Sara Carrigan of Australia, winner of the women's cycling road race at the Athens 2004 Olympics. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

Road Race: Saturday, August 9th
Men: 11:00 start
Women: 2:00 pm start

Time Trials: Wednesday, August 13th
Women: 11:30 am start
Men: 1:30 pm start

Track Bicycle Racing

Ryan Bayley of Australia competes in the Men's Keirin Final at the 2006 Commonwealth GamesGetty Images/Stu Forster

Track Bike events are scheduled to begin Friday, August 15 and conclude on Tuesday, August 19th.
Location: Laoshan Cycling Complex.

The track bike discipline consists of ten events:


  • Individual Pursuit - Men

  • Sprint (individual) - Men

  • Keirin - Men

  • Team Pursuit (4000m) - Men

  • Madison - Men

  • Individual pursuit - Women

  • Olympic Sprint - Men

  • Points race - Women

  • Points Race - Men

  • Sprint - Women

Friday, August 15

Team Sprint Men - qualifiers: 4:30 pm
4000m Individual Pursuit Men - qualifiers: 4:55 pm
Team Sprint Men - 1st round: 5:45 pm
3000m Individual Pursuit Women - qualifiers: 6:00 pm
Team Sprint Men - Finals: 6:40 pm

Track Bike Racing Schedule (cont.) Saturday - Sunday

Jennie ReedAdam Pretty/Getty Images

Saturday, August 16

4000m Individual Pursuit Men - 1st round 4:30 pm
Keirin Men 1st round- 4:50 pm
3000m Individual Pursuit Women - 1st round: 5:05 pm
Keirin Men - Repechage: 5:25 pm
Points Race 40km Men: 5:40 pm
Keirin Men 2nd round- 6:30 pm
4000m Individual Pursuit Men - finals 6:30 pm
Keirin Men - Finals: 7:15 pm

Sunday, August 17

4000m Team Pursuit Men - qualifiers 10:00 am
Sprint Women qualifiers - 11:05 am
Sprint Men - qualifiers: 11:20 am
Sprint Men - 1/16 finals: 4:30 pm
3000m Individual Pursuit Women: 5:05 pm
Sprint Women 1/8 finals - 5:15 pm
Sprint Men - 1/8 finals: 5:35 pm
Sprint Women repechage - 6:05 pm
Sprint Men - repechage: 6:10 pm
4000m Team Pursuit Men - 1st round 6:15 pm

Track Cycling Schedule Continued - Monday and Tuesday

Michael Blatchford Velo Steve/Flickr

Mon Aug 18

Points Race 25km Women - 4:30 pm
Sprint Women heat 1- 5:05
Sprint Men - heat 1: 5:20
Sprint (W) heat 2 - 5:45
Sprint (M) - heat 2: 6:00
4000m Team Pursuit Men - finals 6:15
Sprint (W) heat 3- 6:30
Sprint (M) - heat 3: 6:40

Tue Aug 15

Sprint (W) semis 1- 4:30
Sprint (M) - semis 1 - 4:40
Sprint (M) - 9-12 place - 4:50
Sprint (W) semis 2 - 4:55
Sprint (M) - semis 2 - 5:05
Sprint (W) - 9-12 place - 5:15
Sprint (W) semis 3- 5:20
Sprint (M) - semis 3: 5:25
Madison 50km Men - 5:30
Sprint (W) finals 1- 6:25
Sprint (M) - finals 1 - 6:35
Sprint (W) 5-8 place - 6:45
Sprint (M) - 5-8 place - 6:50
Sprint (W) finals 2- 6:55
Sprint (M) - finals 2 - 7:05
Sprint (W) finals 3- 7:25
Sprint (M) - finals 3 - 7:30

BMX Racing

Feng Li/Getty Images

Olympic BMX racing is scheduled for Wednesday, August 20th and Thursday, August 21st.
Location: Laoshan Cycling Complex.

Wednesday August 20th

BXM Men seeding time trial - 9:00 am
BXM Women seeding time trial - 10:05 am
BXM Men Quarterfinal 1 - 10:50 am
BXM Men Quarterfinal 2 - 11:20 am

Thursday August 21st

BXM Men Quarterfinal 3 - 9:00 am
BXM Women Semifinal 1 - 9:30 am
BXM Men Semifinal 1 - 9:40 am
BXM Women Semifinal 2 - 10:00 am
BXM Men Semifinal 2 - 10:10 am
BXM Women Semifinal 3 - 10:30 am
BXM Men Semifinal 3 - 10:40 am
BXM Women Final - 11:00 am
BXM Men Final - 11:20 am

Mountain Bike Racing

Jose Antonio Hermida of Spain in the men's mountain bike event in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images

Olympic Mountain Bike racing is scheduled for Friday, August 22nd and Saturday, August 23rd.
Location: Laoshan Mountain Bike Course

Women: 3:00, p.m., Friday, August 22nd
Men: 3:00 p.m., Saturday, August 23rd

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