From: cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (Cyndi Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles
Subject: Olympics Results (TTT, WIRR, MKilo, MIndPursQual)(long)
Date: 28 Jul 1992 20:22:18 GMT
Organization: MD Anderson Cancer Center

I have posted some of this before, but never saw it on rec.bikes
so...

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Opening Day Results:

Men's Team Time Trial

Gold	   Germany          2:01:39
Silver  Italy            2:02:39
Bronze  France           2:05:25
4       Unified Team     2:05:34
5       Spain            2:06:11
6       Poland           2:06:34
7       Switzerland      2:06:35
8       Czechoslovakia   2:06:44
9       Netherlands      2:07:49
10      New Zealand      2:08:10
11      Norway           2:08:25
12      Australia        2:09:12
13      Canada           2:10:33
14      Britain          2:12:14
15      China            2:12:38
16      United States    2:13:35

ThatUs all my local paper has.
The only other info I have about the TTT is that
a member of the US team flatted and the rest of the
team waited for him.


WomenUs Road Race

Gold    Kathryn Watt, Australia    2:04:42
Silver  Jeannie Longo, France      2:05:02
Bronze  Minique knol, Netherlands    s.t.
4       Natalya Kistchuk, Unified T  s.t.
5       Monica Valvik, Norway        s.t.
6       Jeanne Golay, United States  s.t.
7       Katherine Shannon, Australia s.t.
8       Luzia Zberg, Switzerland     s.t.
9       Marie Holjer, Sweden         s.t.
10      Sally Zack, United States    s.t.
11      Karina Skibby, Denmark       s.t.
12      Alison Sydor, Canada         s.t.
13      Jacqui Uttien, Australia     s.t.
14      Aiga Zagorska, Lithuania     s.t.
15      Kristel Werckx, Belguim      s.t.
..
26      Inga Thompson, U.S.          s.t.

Once again that is all my local paper lists.
Note that Inga Thompson had a lone crash in the
third lap (of a 5 lap race) and had to fight a 
damaged bike the rest of the race (also, her team-
mates did not help her back up to the pack, she
had to time trial it back to the field).  Jeanne
Golay also went down (in the fourth lap) with several
others (sorry, I donUt know who else went down). 
I believe that crash group made their way back up
to the field easily, together.
Also note that Kathryn Watt was a virtual international
unknown so the pack let her get away early (3rd lap I 
believe) and then compounded that mistake by not chasing 
her until the last few kilometers because the Rbig gunsS
were so busy watching each other that they apparently
forgot about the Australian.
Congratulations on a very nice race.

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-Cyndi Smith-------------------cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-----Houston, Texas
-ph: 713/794-4938--------------fax: 713/792-4262

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Here are some corrections and some additional information that
people sent me about the cycling results from Day 1 of the 
1992 Olympics. 
I thought some of you out there might be interested in this in 
addition to what I posted on Monday.

from bernd.kischnik@cdc2.ifum.maschinenbau.uni-hannover.dbp.de (Bernd Kischnik):
>I just saw your request for Olympic results on newsgroup rec.bicycles.
>I can't write to the news at the moment, so I'm mailing them to you:
>articles that have already gone to the tdf92-mailing list.
>If you like, you can put my articles to the news;
>and I'm sure, Mike Whitman won't bother if you post his list, too.
>from mikew@pyramid.pyramid.com (Mike Whitman):
>>Subject: 100 Km Team Time Trial Results (Olympics) 
>>Here is the results for the 100km Men's TTT. Looks like something happened
>>to the US team but I haven't heard what yet.
(cyn - I heard it was a flat tire)
>>1. Germany 2:01:39 (Dittert, Meyer, Perschel, Rich)
>>2. Italy 2:02:39 (Anastasia, COlombo, Contri, Peron)
>>3. France 2:05:25 (Boussard, Faiure-Pierret, Gaumont, Harel)
>>4. Unified Team 2:05:34
>>5. Spain 2:06:11
>>6. Poland 2:06:34
>>7. Switzerland 2:06:35
>>8. Czechoslovakia 2:06:44
>>9. Netherlands 2:07:49
>>10. New Zealand 2:08:10
>>11. Norway 2:08:25
>>12. Australia 2:09:12
>>13. Canada 2:10:33
>>14. Britain 2:12:14
>>15. China 2:12:38
>>16. United States 2:13:35
>Subject: Gold for German Team in Men's 100 km TTT 
>Two of the riders, Bernd Dittert and Christian Meyer, are living in my 
>home town Hannover and are cycling for the local Hannoverscher 
>Radsport Club! Hooray!
>Some 'background':
>Thank you, America --- the team has spent the last weeks in a 
>training camp in Colorado Springs. As it seems, that must be a 
>really splendid area for cycling. The bikes had special carbon 
>frames in the all too familiar time trial 'design'. Rear wheels 
>were 28" carbon disks, front wheels 24" carbon tri-spokes 
>--- there had been a serious training accident using front disks.
>24" wheels (not the 'usual' 26") were used --- you wouldn't 
>believe it ---to bring the follower's body nearer to the leader's
>in the paceline.
>The Italian team was the last to start, preceded by the german team.
>The Italians were leading in the intermediate times up to 50km.
>The german team had decided the coach wouldn't tell them their
>relative performance up to that point. After 50km, he only said
>phrases like "Italy's slightly leading" when there was in fact an
>Italian lead of around half a minute.
>The Italian lead had been reduced to 6 seconds at km 75,
>when the german team accelerated again. Christian Meyer was pulling
>uphill on the autodrome part of the round course.
>The team said that part was very difficult because of short ascents,
>narrow curves at the end of descents (which they didn't take
>at full risk), and crosswinds.
>At 5km to go, they lost Bernd Dittert who was exhausted.
>But then they had already seen the Norwegian team in front
>and were overtaking it.
>At the finish, they were nervously counting seconds waiting for
>the Italian to come in. After the three minutes difference of start 
>times were over... guess what...
>The final difference to Italy is exactly a minute.
>The French team finished at +3'46".
>The victory is overshaded by a severe crash of the Swedish team;
>but I didn't see pictures of it, nor do I know whether heavy injuries
>happened, but Sweden doesn't seem to appear on Mike Whitman's
>result list. I hope it's not that bad.
>Subject: Results of Olympic Women's 80km Race 
>A round course of 16.2km. Five rounds to go.
>They showed a diagram on TV which showed the steepest hill on the 
>course: if that was correct, they had to climb a 1.1 km long, 7% 
>steep ascent every round, which makes a good solid 800m climb 
>_every round_ ---an extremely difficult task, if that's true.
>All eyes were watching Jeannie Longo (France), who has dominated
>women's cycling through the nearly the last decade with only
>a short break a few years ago.
>(Actually, my eyes were mainly watching Leontien van Moorsel (Netherlands) :-) )
>Jeannie Longo is said to have just tried her comeback to win the
>Olympic race, about the only medal missing in her collection.
>Because she's no good sprinter, and because the French team wouldn't
>help her (they accuse 'Madame' of a primadonna-like behaviour),
>everyone was waiting for her attempt to get away and try a solo ride.
>She finally tried in the fourth round, overtaking the Spanish TV motorcycle.
>The camera man showed how Leontien van Moorsel (last year's World Champion),
>who was riding on the other side of the peloton, was watching Longo's
>attempt and with great effort jumping to her back wheel.
>Several other riders followed, and Longo didn't get away.
>Instead, Kathrin Anne Watt from Australia got away in the resulting
>confusion, and gained a maximum lead of about a minute in the last round.
>As the field accelerated to catch her, Madame Longo tried a second
>breakaway --- and this time succesfull.
>But Watt couldn't be caught anymore and rode solo to victory.
>Jeannie Longo managed not only to reduce Kathrin Watt's lead to 20 sec.,
>but also she escaped the chasing peloton in the last moment,
>with just 1 second lead to the field!
>Results:
>Kathrin Anne Watt      (Australia)    2h 04' 42"
>Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (France)      +       20"
>Monique Knoll          (Netherlands) +       21"
(cyn -- sorry, another poster pointed out that I misspelled 
Monique's name in my post - Minique knol instead of Monique 
Knol, oh well...)
>4.  Kistchuk (EUN)
>5.  Valvik   (Nor)
>6.  Golay    (USA)
>7.  Shannon  (Aus)
>8.  Zberg    (Switzerland)
>9.  Holjer   (Sweden)
>10. Connie Zack (USA)
>...
>11. Skibby (Denmark) (Sister of Jan Skibby, 56th of TdF!)
>12. Sydor (Can)
>14. Zagorska (Lithuania)
>15. Werckx (Belgium)
>17. Capoletto (Ita)
>19. Viola Paulitz (Germany) (from Hildesheim --- 30km from my home)
>24. Purvis (UK)
>30. Burke (New Zealand)
I also received the following additional information --
>From dik@cwi.nl (Dik Winter):
>Some additions from my newspapers: > 
> Men's Team Time Trial
>17	Ireland		2:14:32
>18	Yugoslavia	2:14:37
>19	Mongolia	2:16:52
>20	Brasil		2:22:00
> Women's Road Race
>16	Stagoyurskaya	Unified
>17	Capellotto	Italia
>18	Silporyte	Lithuania
>19	Paulitz		Germany
>20	Chepeline	Lithuania
>plus some Dutch at 23 and 29.  All the same time.

Thanks everyone for the additional information.
To keep down the traffic, if anyone has any corrections/additions to my cycling 
results postings, they can send them to me and I will summarize (as I did
for these!)
Thanks again for the help!

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All opinions are mine, I tell you, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE (unless you want to rent them for a small fee...)
-Cyndi Smith-------------------cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-----Houston, Texas
-ph: 713/794-4938--------------fax: 713/792-4262

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MenUs Kilometer Time Trial Results:
Gold   Jose Moreno       Spain       1:03.342  Olympic Record
Silver Shane Kelly       Australia   1:04.288
Bronze Erin Hartwell     USA         1:04.753
4      Jens Gluecklich   Germany     1:04.798
5      Adler Capelli     Italy       1:05.065
6      Frederic Lancien  France      1:05.157
7      Jon Andrews       New Zealand 1:05.240
8      Gene Samuel       Trinidad-Tob1:05.485
9      DJ van Hameren    Netherlands 1:05.524
10     Keiji Kojima      Japan       1:05.994
11     Ingus Veips       Latvia      1:06.074
12     Alexandre Kiritchenko Unified 1:06.137
13     Christian Meidlinger  Austria 1:06.509
14     Anthony Stirrat   Britain     1:06.522
15     Mika Ilkka Hamalainen Finland 1:06.808

MenUs Individual Pursuit Qualifying Round (top 16 advance)
1  Christopher Boardman  Britain     4:27.357 Olympic Record
2  Jens Lehmann          Germany     4:30.054    (old record 4:32.000)
3  Mark Kingsland        Australia   4:31.033      
4  Gary Anderson         New Zealand 4:32.253
5  Philippe Ermanault    France      4:33.892
6  Carl Sundquist        USA         4:34.390
7  Alex. Gontchenkov     Unified     4:35.057
8  Jan Bo Peterson       Denmark     4:35.904
9  Cedric Mathy          Britain     4:37.288
10 Ivan Beltrami         Italy       4:39.645
11 Robert Karsnicki      Poland      4:39.836
12 Servais Knaven        Netherlands 4:40.836
13 Michal Baldrian       Czech.      4:41.724
14 Adolfo Aleri Plaza    Spain       4:42.538
15 Michael Belcourt      Canada      4:43.135
16 Masamitsu Ehara       Japan       4:44.412
17 Viktor Kunz           Switzerland 4:45.539
18 Georgios Portelanos   Greece      4:46.345
19 Patrick Matt          Liechtenstein 4:46.982
20 Alberny Gutierrez     Colombia    4:49.067
21 Anthony Ledgard Grimm Peru        4:49.626
22 M. Kumaresan          Malaysia    4:59.049
23 Yu-Yi Weng            Taiwan      5:00.519
24 Manuel Alfonso Garcia Guam        5:03.997
25 Mehrdad Tarshiz       Iran        5:08.184
DNF: Hernan Mario Lopez Loza (Argentina), Steffen 
Kjaergaard (Norway), Malcolm Lange (South Africa),
Robert Peters (Antigua)
DQ:  Raul Dominguez Romero (Cuba)

Local cycling favorite Jose Moreno won SpainUs first gold medal of the Summer
Games with an Olympic Record in the 1-kilometer race Monday.
Moreno finished in 1 minute, 3.342 seconds to win SpainUs fifth gold medal 
ever.  
Shane Kelly of Australia won a surprise silver with 1:04.288, and American 
Erin Hartwell of Indianapolis won the bronze.
Hartwell edged pre-race favorite Jens Gluecklich of Germany by four hundredths 
of a second for AmericaUs first cycling medal in the 1992 Olympics.
Defending world champion Moreno, 23, of Cayclana in southern Spain, circled 
the track after his victory with his right fist raised to a frantic crowd 
of 3,500.
He was the last of 32 riders, and the crowd cheered him on louder and louder 
with each lap, then gave him a five-minute standing ovation when he eclipsed 
the Olympic record of 1:03.91 set by FranceUs Pierre Trentin in Mexico in 
1968.
The crowd erupted into applause again when he took the podium.  With gold 
around his neck, he choked up when his flag was raised, and his countrymen
clapped through SpainUs anthem.
Afterward, the medalists embraced as the crowd continued chanting RMo-re-no! 
Mo-re-no!S
Teammates and friends hoisted him on their shoulders for one last victory lap, a 
fedora on his head and flowers in his hand.
Hartwell, a four-time national 1-kilometer champion from Indianapolis, 
finished in 1:04.753 in the four-lap event.
Hartwell, a 23 year old rider who captured a silver at the Pan American Games 
in Cuba last year and was second at the 1991 Grand Prix of Cycling in 
Barcelona, knocked nearly two seconds off his best career time.
Earlier Monday, Chris Boardman of Britain posted an Olympic record time of 
4 minutes, 27.357 seconds in the menUs 4,000 meter individual pursuit 
qualifying race.
American Carl Sundquist had the sixth fastest clocking among 16 riders 
surviving the first round in the event, in which riders start of opposite 
sides of the track and try to pass one another or post the fastest time 
for 16 laps.
Sundquist, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was more than seven seconds faster than 
Michel Baldrian of Czechoslovakia in their qualifying heat.  He beat his 
personal best by nearly two seconds.

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All opinions are mine, I tell you, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE (unless 
you want to rent them for a small fee...)
-Cyndi Smith-------------------cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-----Houston, Texas
-ph: 713/794-4938--------------fax: 713/792-4262

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I just got this correction (from the original author) to the info I forwarded this 
morning.  He realized that he miscalculated the climb of the WIRR course.  
ooops!  I didnUt even think to check it.

>From: Bernd.Kischnik@cdc2.ifum.maschinenbau.uni-hannover.dbp.de
>They showed a diagram on TV which showed the steepest hill
>on the course: if that was correct, they had to climb
>a 1.1 km long, 7% steep ascent every round, which makes
>for an 80m climb each round, pretty flat.
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All opinions are mine, I tell you, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE (unless 
you want to rent them for a small fee...)
-Cyndi Smith-------------------cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-----Houston, Texas
-ph: 713/794-4938--------------fax: 713/792-4262

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