Defending Men’s Cross Country Mountain Bike Olympic champion, Julien Absalon of France, clocked 1:55:59 hours, 1:07 minutes faster than fellow mate Jean-Christophe Peraud. Nino Schurter from Switzerland had bronze with 1:57:52.

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Sabine Spitz from Germany won the Women’s Cross Country Mountain Bike gold medal with a timing of 1:45.11, 0.41 seconds ahead of the silver medalist, Maja Wloszczowska from Poland. Irina Kalentyeva of Russia had bronze.

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Maris Strombergs of Latvia captured the Men’s BMX Cycling gold with a timing of 36.190. Mike Day (36.606) and Donny Robinson (36.972) of the United States, took home silver and bronze respectively.

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Anne-Caroline Chausso of France captured the first Women’s BMX gold medal in the Olympics first BMX Cycling race. She finished the race in 35.976. Her compatriot, Laetitia le Corguille, took silver with 38.042. Jill Kintner of the United States had bronze with 38.674.

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Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny of Great Britain took gold and silver respectively in Men’s Sprint cycling event at Laoshan Velodrome on 19th August 2008. Mickael Bourgain of France had bronze.

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Victoria Pendleton of Britain bagged the Women’s Sprint Cycling Olympic gold, Anna Meares of Australia second and Guo Shuang of China at third.

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Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez of Argentina clinched the Men’s Madison gold, Spain silver, Russia bronze.

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In the Men’s Team Pursuit event on 18th August 2008 at Laoshan Velodrome, the team from Great Britain broke Olympic and World record by finishing the race in 3:53.314. Denmark was second and New Zealand third.

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Marianne Vos of the Netherlands clinched the Women’s Points Race Cycling gold. Yoanka Gonzalez of Cuba took silver while Leire Olaberria of Spain got bronze.

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Rebecca Romero of Great Britain won the Women’s Individual Pursuit (Cycling: Track) gold in in 3 minutes 28.321 seconds. Fellow mate, Wendy Houvenaghel, took silver. Lesya Kalitovska of Ukraine had bronze.

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