Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
# Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres was one of seven track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the median of the individual event distances. Each nation could enter up to 12 cyclists.

## Competition format

The 5000 metres was a sprint-style race, though considerably longer than modern sprints. The time limit for the race was 9 minutes, 25 seconds. The competition was conducted in two rounds (semifinals and a final). The semifinal round comprised 7 semifinals, each with up to 9 cyclists. The winning cyclist in each semifinal advanced to the final, so long as the time limit was not exceeded.

## Results

### Semifinals

The best cyclist in each of the 7 semifinals advanced to the final.

**Semifinal 1**

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Johannes van Spengen | Netherlands | 8:39.8 | Q |
| 2 | Daniel Flynn | Great Britain | Unknown | |
| 3 | Guglielmo Malatesta | Italy | Unknown | |
| 4 | Pierre Seginaud | France | Unknown | |
| — | William Bailey | Great Britain | DNF | |

**Semifinal 2**

Demangel had finished first by inches, but was disqualified for fouling.

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Émile Marechal | France | 9:01.4 | Q |
| 2 | Frederick McCarthy | Canada | Unknown | |
| 3 | Antonie Gerrits | Netherlands | Unknown | |
| — | Ernest Payne | Great Britain | DNF | |
| — | Émile Demangel | France | DSQ | |

**Semifinal 3**

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | André Auffray | France | 8:56.8 | Q |
| 2 | Hermann Martens | Germany | Unknown | |
| 3 | Philipus Frylink | South Africa | Unknown | |
| 4 | Bruno Götze | Germany | Unknown | |
| 5 | William Morton | Canada | Unknown | |

**Semifinal 4**

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein | Netherlands | 8:42.8 | Q |
| 2 | W. F. Magee | Great Britain | Unknown | |
| 3 | Pierre Texier | France | Unknown | |
| 4 | Thomas Passmore | South Africa | Unknown | |
| — | André Poulain | France | DNF | |

**Semifinal 5**

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Benjamin Jones | Great Britain | 9:08.8 | Q |
| 2 | Karl Neumer | Germany | Unknown | |
| 3 | Cesare Zanzottera | Italy | Unknown | |
| 4-9 | Georgius Damen | Netherlands | Unknown | |
| 4-9 | Gaston Delaplane | France | Unknown | |
| 4-9 | Max Götze | Germany | Unknown | |
| 4-9 | Joe Lavery | Great Britain | Unknown | |
| 4-9 | Frank Shore | South Africa | Unknown | |
| 4-9 | Richard Villepontoux | France | Unknown | |

**Semifinal 6**

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Clarence Kingsbury | Great Britain | 8:53.0 | Q |
| 2 | Guglielmo Morisetti | Italy | Unknown | |
| 3 | Dorus Nijland | Netherlands | Unknown | |
| 4 | Gaston Dreyfus | France | Unknown | |
| 5-6 | Walter Andrews | Canada | Unknown | |
| 5-6 | Albert Calvert | Great Britain | Unknown | |

**Semifinal 7**

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Maurice Schilles | France | 7:55.4 | Q |
| 2 | Charlie Clark | Great Britain | Unknown | |
| 3 | William Anderson | Canada | Unknown | |
| 4-7 | Guillaume Coeckelberg | Belgium | Unknown | |
| 4-7 | Rudolf Katzer | Germany | Unknown | |
| 4-7 | Georges Perrin | France | Unknown | |
| 4-7 | Floris Venter | South Africa | Unknown | |

### Final

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Benjamin Jones | Great Britain | 8:36.2 |
| | Maurice Schilles | France | Unknown |
| | André Auffray | France | Unknown |
| 4 | Émile Marechal | France | Unknown |
| 5 | Clarence Kingsbury | Great Britain | Unknown |
| 6 | Johannes van Spengen | Netherlands | Unknown |
| 7 | Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein | Netherlands | Unknown |
