Summary
Legend TS — Team sprint KE — Keirin SP — Sprint TP — Team pursuit IP — Individual pursuit MA — Madison PR — Points race RR — Road race TT — Individual time trial Q — Quotas R — Riders
Nation Track Road MTB BMX TotalMen Women Men Women M W M W Q R TS KE SP TP IP MA PR SP IP PR RR TT RR TT 1 1 1 X 1 3 1 1 2 2 11 10 X 2 2 X 2 1 1 1 1 5 2 3 1 1 1 3 2 30 28 2 2 1 1 1 7 6 1 1 3 1 6 5 X 1 5 1 1 3 12 11 2 1 1 1 5 5 2 2 2 X 1 1 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 1 18 15 1 2 1 1 5 5 X 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 14 12 1 1 1 X 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 12 13 1 1 2 2 3 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 4 4 X 1 1 X 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 13 12 X X 1 1 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 15 15 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 5 4 X 2 2 X 1 X 1 1 1 5 3 2 3 1 2 2 29 28 X 2 2 X 1 1 1 5 2 3 2 3 2 26 20 X 2 2 X 2 X 1 1 2 1 4 1 3 2 2 1 1 28 25 X 2 1 4 4 1 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 1 1 1 6 5 3 1 4 3 1 2 1 4 4 1 1 X 1 1 5 2 3 1 2 1 1 20 15 1 1 1 X 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 15 14 2 1 1 1 5 3 2 1 3 6 5 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 10 8 3 1 4 3 X 2 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 X 2 2 X 2 X 1 2 1 5 2 3 2 2 1 3 1 32 27 X 1 X 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 15 17 4 1 2 1 8 8 X 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 12 11 2 2 2 X 2 1 X 2 X 1 1 1 5 2 3 1 1 2 25 22 2 2 2 3 1 1 5 4 4 1 1 1 7 6 3 1 2 1 1 1 9 8 1 1 2 4 4 X 2 X 1 1 5 2 2 1 3 1 20 19 3 1 3 2 2 11 8 X 1 1 1 3 2 3 2 1 1 16 14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 X 2 X 1 1 1 4 2 3 1 18 16 X 1 1 1 X 1 1 1 1 5 2 3 2 2 2 3 1 29 24 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 4 1 1 1 Total: 65 NOCs 13 25 21 10 18 16 23 12 13 22 143 39 66 25 50 30 32 16 574 511
Qualification timeline
Event Date VenueTrack 2007 UCI "B" World Championships 26 June – 1 July 2007 Cape Town 2007–08 UCI Track World Cup November 2007 – February 2008 - 2008 UCI Track World Championships 26–30 March 2008 Manchester UCI Track World Ranking 30 March 2008 -Road 2007 UCI "B" World Championships 26 June – 1 July 2007 Cape Town 2007 UCI Road World Championships 25–30 September 2007 Stuttgart 2007 UCI ProTour 30 October 2007 - 2006–2007 UCI Africa Tour 30 October 2007 - 2006–2007 UCI America Tour 30 October 2007 - 2006–2007 UCI Asia Tour 30 October 2007 - 2006–2007 UCI Europe Tour 30 October 2007 - 2006–2007 UCI Oceania Tour 30 October 2007 - 2008 UCI Women's World Cup 1 June 2008 -Mountainbike 2007 Pan American Championships 8–11 March 2007 Villa la Angostura 2007 Oceania Championships 23–25 March 2007 Thredbo 2007 African Championships 28–29 July 2007 Windhoek 2007 Asian Championships 4–5 August 2007 Suzhou UCI ranking by nation 31 December 2007 -BMX 2008 UCI BMX World Championships 29 May – 1 June 2008 Taiyuan UCI ranking by nation 31 May 2008 -
Track A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter up to 2 athletes in each individual event, except points race where it can enter only 1 athlete. NOC may also enter up to 1 team in each team event.
Champions in the World Championship, World Cup, and "B" World Championship automatically qualify (Nontransferable place), as do several of the athletes with the highest UCI rankings in their event on 30 March 2008. Additionally, the tripartite commission (made up of the IOC, UCI and ANOC) may issue invitational places.
Men's sprint Event Team sprint Keirin SprintWorld Championships Chris Hoy Chris HoyWorld Cup -* -* Kévin Sireau"B" World Championships – Gadi Chait Daniel NovikovUCI ranking * Arnaud Tournant Teun Mulder Christos Volikakis Ryan Bayley Roberto Chiappa Toshiaki Fushimi Carsten Bergemann Josiah Ng Onn Lam Ricardo Lynch Sergey Borisov* Andriy Vynokurov** Roberto Chiappa Ryan Bayley Kazunari Watanabe Theo Bos Maximilian Levy1 rider from each qualified sprint team – Total 13 25 21
* Since World Cup leader qualified through World Championships, the next competitor from the world rankings qualify.
** South Africa replaced by the next competitor from the world rankings
Men's pursuit Event Team pursuit Individual pursuitWorld Championships Bradley WigginsWorld Cup -* Volodymyr Dyudya"B" World Championships – Alexandre PliușchinUCI ranking * Jenning Huizenga Taylor Phinney Phillip Thuaux Sergi Escobar Roure Alexander Serov David O'Loughlin1 rider from each qualified pursuit team – Total 10 18
* Since World Cup leader qualified through World Championships, the next competitor from the world rankings qualify.
Men's points Event Madison Points raceWorld Championships Vasil KiryienkaWorld Cup Chris Newton"B" World Championships – Radoslav Konstantinov*UCI ranking Cameron Meyer Rafał Ratajczyk Makoto Iijima Wong Kam-po Milton Wynants Vazquez Marco Arriagada Feng Chun-kai*1 rider from each qualified madison team – Total 16 23
* Bulgaria replaced by the next competitor from the world rankings
Women Event Sprint Individual pursuit Points raceWorld Championships Victoria Pendleton Rebecca Romero Marianne VosWorld Cup Willy Kanis Vilija Sereikaitė Li Yan"B" World Championships Sakie Tsukuda Evelyn García Satomi WadamiUCI ranking Jennie Reed Willy Kanis Clara Sanchez Simona Krupeckaitė Guo Shuang Lisandra Guerra Natallia Tsylinskaya Anna Meares Svetlana Grankovskaya Rebecca Romero Sarah Hammer Vilija Sereikaitė Lesya Kalytovska Katie Mactier María Luisa Calle Alison Shanks Lada Kozlíková Verena Joos Karin Thürig Vera Carrara Yoanka González Wong Wan Yiu Leire Olaberria Trine Schmidt Olga Slyusareva Pascale Jeuland Gina Grain Lee Min-Hye Belem Guerreroall individual pursuit competitors – – Rebecca Romero Vilija Sereikaitė Evelyn García Sarah Hammer Lesya Kalytovska Katie Mactier María Luisa Calle Alison Shanks Lada Kozlíková Verena Joos Karin Thürig Total 12 13 22
Road An NOC may enter up to 5 men and 3 women if qualified through the UCI ranking. Otherwise it may enter up to 2 men and 2 women. Each NOC will receive athlete quota places according to the UCI ranking by nations in the tours. Also, each NOC with a rider in individual ranking in the Pro Tour and in the corresponding top places in continental tours will receive 1 place if not qualified through Nations Ranking. Places for the time trial event are included in the total quota for cycling disciplines. Only riders involved in the road, track or mountain biking or BMX can take part in the individual time trial race.
Men's road race Event Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOC UCI ProTour 1 to 10 5 3*11 to 154 3**all ranked individuals Li Fuyu 1**UCI Africa Tour 1st 32nd 1**individual top 5 Mohamed Ali Ahmed 1**UCI America Tour 1 to 3 34 to 6 2 1**individual top 20 Henry Raabe Pedro Pablo Pérez 1**UCI Asia Tour 1st 32 to 4 2 1**individual top 5 Park Sung-Baek 1**UCI Europe Tour 1 to 6*** 37 to 16****2UCI Oceania Tour 1st 3"B" World Championships individual top 5 Erik Hoffmann Alexandre Pliușchin Hichem Chaabane Richard Rodríguez Vladimir Tuychiev Francisco Cabrera* Mario Contreras* Up to 2 Total 143
* Teams could qualify only the number of riders that they have in the corresponding tour. Luxembourg only qualified 3 riders in the pro tour. The left over places were taken by teams from the "B" World Championships.
** In tours where individual riders qualified, the teams that qualified more than one athlete lost quota places in order to maintain the overall quotas. Sweden, Tunisia, Venezuela, Mexico and Hong Kong all lost 1 quota place to China, Libya, Costa Rica, Cuba and South Korea respectively.
*** Portugal had 3 quota places, but chose to use only two.
**** Switzerland had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one.
Men's individual time trial Event Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCUCI ProTour 1 to 10 1UCI Africa Tour 1st 1UCI America Tour 1 to 4 1UCI Asia Tour 1st and 2nd 1UCI Europe Tour 1 to 7 1UCI Oceania Tour 1st 1World Championships individual top 15 Fabian Cancellara László Bodrogi Stef Clement Bert Grabsch Vladimir Gusev Iván Gutiérrez Andrey Mizurov Vasili Kyrienka Bradley Wiggins David Zabriskie Raivis Belohvoščiks Marco Pinotti Gustav Larsson Andriy Hrivko Ryder Hesjedal Brian Vandborg Ben Day 1 Total 39
Women's road race Event Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCWorld Tour Rankings 1 to 16 ****** 3 17 to 24 2 1*individual top 100 Grete Treier Yumari González Valdivieso Maja Włoszczowska Anita Valen-De Vries Sigrid Corneo Zulfiya Zabirova 1*"B" World Championships individual top 3 Sung Eun-Go Hae Ok-Jeong Thatsani WichanaUp to 2Invitation places 1 Total 66
* As other quota places are awarded to ranked athletes, the quota places for the ranked NOCs will be decreased to keep the total number of athletes constant.
** Austria, China and Spain had 3 quota places, but chose to use only two.
Women's individual time trial Event Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCWorld Tour Rankings 1 to 15 1World Championships individual top 10 Hanka Kupfernagel Kristin Armstrong Priska Doppmann Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli Emma Pooley Li Meifang Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel Zulfiya Zabirova Susanne Ljungskog Trine Schmidt 1 Total 25
Mountainbike An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 2 women athletes.
Men Mountainbike men Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCUCI ranking by nation 1 to 5 36 to 13 ** 214 to 24 * * ** 1African Championships individual top 2 Mannie Heymans Antipas Kwari 1 American Championships individual top 2 Luciano Caracioli Paolo Montolla Castillo 1 Asian Championships individual top 2 Ji Junhua Chan Chun Hing 1 Oceania Championships individual top 2* 1 Total 50
* Since both Australia and New Zealand (the only competitors in the Oceania continental championships) qualified through world rankings, the next two competitors from the world rankings (Hungary and Turkey) qualified a single rider.
** Austria had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one and the next competitor from the world rankings (Japan) qualified a single rider
Women Mountainbike women Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCUCI ranking by nation 1 to 8 29 to 18 1African Championships individual 1st Yolande Speedy 1American Championship individual 1st Francisca Campos 1Asian Championship individual 1st Rie Katayama 1Oceania Championship individual 1st Tory Thomas 1 Total 30
BMX An NOC may enter up to 3 men and 2 women if qualified through the UCI ranking. Otherwise it may enter up to 1 man and 1 woman.
Men Event Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCUCI ranking by nation 1 to 5 36 to 8*29 to 11 1UCI World Championship 1 to 6 ******1Invitation places 2 - 1 Total 32
* New Zealand had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one.
** The left over places were taken by teams from the World Championships.
Women Event Ranking by nation Qualified Athletes per NOCUCI ranking by nation 1 to 4* 25 to 81UCI World Championship 1 to 3 **1Invitation places 1 1 Total 16
* New Zealand had 2 quota places, but chose to use only one.
** The left over places were taken by teams from the World Championships.
References Qualifications for Men's Road events at the Olympic Games 2008 Olympic Games road cycling: distribution of places for Elite Women Mountain bike: publication of rankings by nation and qualification for the Olympic Games Qualification for track events at the Olympic Games BMX: Qualifying places awarded for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
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