Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race
# Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race

The men's individual road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was held on Wednesday, 27 September 2000 (the second day of competition of the games) with a race distance of 239.4 km. The estimated global TV audience was 600 million. They were specifically held in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. There were 154 cyclists from 41 nations competing. The maximum number of cyclists per nation had been five since professionals were allowed in 1996. The event was won by Jan Ullrich of Germany, the nation's first victory in the men's individual road race (though Olaf Ludwig of East Germany had won in 1988). His teammate Andreas Klöden's bronze made this race the first time one nation had taken two medals in the event since 1988—when West Germany had done so by taking silver and bronze (making an all-German podium then, with Ludwig's gold). Alexander Vinokourov took silver for Kazakhstan's first medal in the event.

## Background

This was the 16th appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932; the time trial had been re-introduced in 1996 alongside the road race. The change to including professionals in 1996 meant that 2000 was the first Games that saw significant repeat competitors in the event (which had typically seen top cyclists turn professional after one appearance); Atlanta silver medalist Rolf Sørensen of Denmark and bronze medalist Max Sciandri of Great Britain returned. Favorites were "difficult" to select for the one-day race. Lance Armstrong (1999 and 2000 Tour de France winner) and Jan Ullrich (1997 Tour de France winner) were among the prominent cyclists, but the road race was a very different event from a Tour and "neither was considered a great sprinter".

Egypt and Kyrgyzstan each made their debut in the men's individual road race. Great Britain made its 16th appearance in the event, the only nation to have competed in each appearance to date.

## Competition format and course

The mass-start race was on a 239.4 kilometre course over the Cycling Road Course in Sydney's Centennial Parklands. The distance had been increased from previous Olympic road races (particularly pre-1996, though the distance was nearly 20 kilometres more than 1996 as well) to be more consistent with professional races.

## Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| Wednesday, 27 September 2000 | 10:00 | Final |

## Results

A three-cyclist breakout occurred with 25 kilometres to go: Ullrich and two of his Deutsche Telekom teammates, Vinokourov and Klöden.

| Rank | Cyclist | Nation | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Jan Ullrich | Germany | 5:29:08 |
| | Alexander Vinokourov | Kazakhstan | + 9" |
| | Andreas Klöden | Germany | + 12" |
| 4 | Michele Bartoli | Italy | + 1' 26" |
| 5 | Laurent Jalabert | France | s.t. |
| 6 | Frank Høj | Denmark | s.t. |
| 7 | Piotr Wadecki | Poland | s.t. |
| 8 | George Hincapie | United States | s.t. |
| 9 | Paolo Bettini | Italy | s.t. |
| 10 | Dmitri Konychev | Russia | s.t. |
| 11 | Danilo Di Luca | Italy | + 1' 29" |
| 12 | Axel Merckx | Belgium | s.t. |
| DPG | Lance Armstrong | United States | s.t. |
| 14 | Erik Zabel | Germany | + 1' 38" |
| 15 | Max van Heeswijk | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 16 | Gordon Fraser | Canada | s.t. |
| 17 | Óscar Freire | Spain | s.t. |
| 18 | Jaan Kirsipuu | Estonia | s.t. |
| 19 | Robbie McEwen | Australia | s.t. |
| 20 | Zbigniew Spruch | Poland | s.t. |
| 21 | Markus Zberg | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 22 | Arvis Piziks | Latvia | s.t. |
| 23 | Peter Wrolich | Austria | s.t. |
| 24 | Rolf Aldag | Germany | s.t. |
| 25 | Léon van Bon | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 26 | Andrej Hauptman | Slovenia | s.t. |
| 27 | Vladimir Duma | Ukraine | s.t. |
| 28 | Glenn Magnusson | Sweden | s.t. |
| 29 | Pavel Tonkov | Russia | s.t. |
| 30 | Henk Vogels | Australia | s.t. |
| 31 | Ruber Marín | Colombia | s.t. |
| 32 | Uroš Murn | Slovenia | s.t. |
| 33 | Nico Mattan | Belgium | s.t. |
| 34 | Fred Rodriguez | United States | s.t. |
| 35 | Maximiliano Sciandri | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 36 | Serguei Ivanov | Russia | s.t. |
| 37 | Oscar Camenzind | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 38 | John Tanner | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 39 | Serguei Outchakov | Ukraine | s.t. |
| 40 | Nicki Sørensen | Denmark | s.t. |
| 41 | Gerrit Glomser | Austria | s.t. |
| 42 | Olexandr Fedenko | Ukraine | s.t. |
| 43 | David McCann | Ireland | s.t. |
| 44 | Raimondas Rumšas | Lithuania | s.t. |
| 45 | Laurent Brochard | France | s.t. |
| 46 | Andrei Teteriouk | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 47 | Christopher Jenner | New Zealand | s.t. |
| 48 | Zbigniew Piątek | Poland | s.t. |
| 49 | Tyler Hamilton | United States | s.t. |
| 50 | Omar Pumar | Venezuela | s.t. |
| 51 | Matthias Buxhofer | Austria | s.t. |
| 52 | Antonio Cruz | United States | s.t. |
| 53 | Alexandr Shefer | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 54 | Mauro Gianetti | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 55 | Erki Pütsep | Estonia | s.t. |
| 56 | Jens Voigt | Germany | s.t. |
| 57 | Sergei Yakovlev | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 58 | Piotr Przydział | Poland | s.t. |
| 59 | Rolf Sørensen | Denmark | s.t. |
| 60 | Abraham Olano | Spain | s.t. |
| 61 | Julian Dean | New Zealand | s.t. |
| 62 | Christophe Moreau | France | s.t. |
| 63 | Richard Virenque | France | s.t. |
| 64 | Laurent Dufaux | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 65 | Volodimir Gustov | Ukraine | s.t. |
| 66 | Francesco Casagrande | Italy | s.t. |
| 67 | Marc Wauters | Belgium | s.t. |
| 68 | Alex Zülle | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 69 | Marco Pantani | Italy | s.t. |
| 70 | Pavel Padrnos | Czech Republic | s.t. |
| 71 | Rik Verbrugghe | Belgium | s.t. |
| 72 | Eric Wohlberg | Canada | s.t. |
| 73 | Andrei Kivilev | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 74 | Ciarán Power | Ireland | + 5' 50" |
| 75 | Viacheslav Ekimov | Russia | s.t. |
| 76 | Tomáš Konečný | Czech Republic | s.t. |
| 77 | Stuart O'Grady | Australia | + 7' 06" |
| 78 | Bjørnar Vestøl | Norway | s.t. |
| 79 | Peter Van Petegem | Belgium | s.t. |
| 80 | Tristan Hoffman | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 81 | Andris Reiss | Latvia | + 12' 53" |
| 82 | José Medina | Chile | + 12' 54" |
| 83 | Manuel Guevara | Venezuela | + 13' 35" |
| 84 | Carlos Maya | Venezuela | s.t. |
| 85 | Scott Guyton | New Zealand | + 14' 13" |
| 86 | David George | South Africa | + 16' 43" |
| 87 | Milan Dvorščík | Slovakia | + 22' 45" |
| 88 | Alexis Méndez | Venezuela | + 23' 39" |
| 89 | Murilo Fischer | Brazil | s.t. |
| 90 | Martin Riška | Slovakia | s.t. |
| 91 | Óscar Pineda | Guatemala | s.t. |
| 92 | Pedro Pablo Pérez | Cuba | + 23' 40" |
| — | Scott McGrory | Australia | DNF |
| — | Matt White | Australia | DNF |
| — | René Haselbacher | Austria | DNF |
| — | Thomas Mühlbacher | Austria | DNF |
| — | Czeslaw Lukaszewicz | Canada | DNF |
| — | Brian Walton | Canada | DNF |
| — | Luis Fernando Sepúlveda | Chile | DNF |
| — | Santiago Botero | Colombia | DNF |
| — | Jhon García | Colombia | DNF |
| — | Fredy González | Colombia | DNF |
| — | Víctor Hugo Peña | Colombia | DNF |
| — | Radim Kořínek | Czech Republic | DNF |
| — | Ján Svorada | Czech Republic | DNF |
| — | Lars Michaelsen | Denmark | DNF |
| — | Michael Sandstød | Denmark | DNF |
| — | Mahmoud Abbas | Egypt | DNF |
| — | Amer El-Nady | Egypt | DNF |
| — | Mohamed Abdel Fattah | Egypt | DNF |
| — | Mohamed Kholafy | Egypt | DNF |
| — | Juan Carlos Domínguez | Spain | DNF |
| — | Santos González | Spain | DNF |
| — | Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero | Spain | DNF |
| — | Lauri Aus | Estonia | DNF |
| — | Innar Mändoja | Estonia | DNF |
| — | Janek Tombak | Estonia | DNF |
| — | Christophe Capelle | France | DNF |
| — | Nick Craig | Great Britain | DNF |
| — | Rob Hayles | Great Britain | DNF |
| — | Jeremy Hunt | Great Britain | DNF |
| — | Jazy Garcia | Guam | DNF |
| — | Hossein Askari | Iran | DNF |
| — | Ahad Kazemi | Iran | DNF |
| — | Yoshiyuki Abe | Japan | DNF |
| — | Evgeny Vakker | Kyrgyzstan | DNF |
| — | Raivis Belohvoščiks | Latvia | DNF |
| — | Andris Naudužs | Latvia | DNF |
| — | Dainis Ozols | Latvia | DNF |
| — | Artūras Kasputis | Lithuania | DNF |
| — | Remigijus Lupeikis | Lithuania | DNF |
| — | Saulius Šarkauskas | Lithuania | DNF |
| — | Erik Dekker | Netherlands | DNF |
| — | Koos Moerenhout | Netherlands | DNF |
| — | Kurt Asle Arvesen | Norway | DNF |
| — | Svein Gaute Hølestøl | Norway | DNF |
| — | Thor Hushovd | Norway | DNF |
| — | Glen Mitchell | New Zealand | DNF |
| — | Piotr Chmielewski | Poland | DNF |
| — | José Azevedo | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Bruno Castanheira | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Vítor Gamito | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Orlando Rodrigues | Portugal | DNF |
| — | Robert Hunter | South Africa | DNF |
| — | Evgeni Petrov | Russia | DNF |
| — | Martin Hvastija | Slovenia | DNF |
| — | Tadej Valjavec | Slovenia | DNF |
| — | Roman Broniš | Slovakia | DNF |
| — | Róbert Nagy | Slovakia | DNF |
| — | Magnus Bäckstedt | Sweden | DNF |
| — | Michel Lafis | Sweden | DNF |
| — | Martin Rittsel | Sweden | DNF |
| — | Serhiy Honchar | Ukraine | DNF |
| — | Gregorio Bare | Uruguay | DNF |
