Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's track time trial

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.^[1]

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 edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Anna Meares (AUS)	Jiang Yonghua (CHN)	Natallia Tsylinskaya (BLR)

Records edit

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)	Kumming, China P.R.	34.000 s	11 August 2002
Olympic Record	Félicia Ballanger (FRA)	Sydney, Australia	34.140 s	16 September 2000

Results edit

Final results^[1]
Rank	Race Number	Name	Country	250 m Time	500 m Time
	3	Anna Meares	Australia	19.164	33.952 WR
	7	Jiang Yonghua	China	19.192	34.112
	4	Natallia Tsylinskaya	Belarus	19.305	34.167
4	23	Simona Krupeckaitė	Lithuania	19.517	34.317
5	26	Yvonne Hijgenaar	Netherlands	19.519	34.532
6	16	Victoria Pendleton	Great Britain	19.696	34.626
7	6	Lori-Ann Muenzer	Canada	19.630	34.628
8	24	Nancy Contreras Reyes	Mexico	19.523	34.783
9	32	Svetlana Grankovskaya	Russia	19.739	34.797
10	21	Sayuri Osuga	Japan	19.704	35.045
11	17	Katrin Meinke	Germany	19.789	35.088
12	30	Tamilla Abassova	Russia	19.982	35.147