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Road Race, Individual, Women

Road Race, Individual, Women

Date	21 July 1996 — 11:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Buckhead Cycling Course, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants	58 from 30 countries
Format	104.40 km. (64.87 miles) mass start race.

As always the favorite was France’s Jeannie Longo. By 1996 she had won 10 world championships, five on the roads, and had even won a silver medal in mountain biking at the 1993 World Championships. However, at 37, the French cycling federation considered her too old and stopped funding her, but they selected her for the Games anyway. On the eighth lap of the race, Longo got away with Italy’s Imelda Chiappa and Clara Hughes (CAN) and Anna Wilson (AUS). In the pouring rain, Wilson was dropped quickly, but the other three stayed away. Early on the final lap, Longo powered away from Chiappa and Hughes and rode to her much deserved gold medal. Hughes returned to the Olympics in 2000 in cycling and in 2002 and 2006, competed at the Winter Olympics in speed skating. Winning medals in both years on the ice, she is one of the few athletes (five thru 2006) to have won medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The defending champion, Kathy Watt, also competed but missed the winning break and finished ninth.

Pos	Bib	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	–	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	👁 Image FRA	2-36:13	–	Gold
2	–	Imelda Chiappa	👁 Image ITA	–	at 0:25	Silver
3	–	Clara Hughes	👁 Image CAN	–	at 0:31	Bronze
4	–	Vera Hohlfeld	👁 Image GER	–	at 0:53
5	–	Jolanta Polikevičiūtė	👁 Image LTU	–	at 0:53
6	–	Zulfiya Zabirova	👁 Image RUS	–	at 0:53
7	–	Alessandra Cappellotto	👁 Image ITA	–	at 0:53
8	–	Barbara Heeb	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:53
9	–	Kathy Watt	👁 Image AUS	–	at 0:53
10	–	Sue Palmer	👁 Image CAN	–	at 0:53
11	–	Marie Purvis	👁 Image GBR	–	at 0:53
12	–	Rasa Polikevičiūtė	👁 Image LTU	–	at 0:53
13	–	Yvonne Schnorf	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:53
14	–	Zinaida Stahurskaya	👁 Image BLR	–	at 0:53
15	–	Diana Rast	👁 Image SUI	–	at 0:53
16	–	Catherine Marsal	👁 Image FRA	–	at 0:53
17	–	Anna Wilson	👁 Image AUS	–	at 0:53
18	–	Ragnhild Kostøl	👁 Image NOR	–	at 0:53
19	–	Sarah Phillips	👁 Image GBR	–	at 0:53
20	–	Heidi Van De Vijver	👁 Image BEL	–	at 0:53
21	–	Joane Somarriba	👁 Image ESP	–	at 0:53
22	–	Tanja Klein	👁 Image AUT	–	at 0:53
23	–	Ana Barros	👁 Image POR	–	at 0:53
24	–	Lenka Ilavská	👁 Image SVK	–	at 0:53
25	–	Susanne Ljungskog	👁 Image SWE	–	at 0:53
26	–	Yvonne Brunen	👁 Image NED	–	at 0:53
27	–	Eva Loweová-Orvošová	👁 Image SVK	–	at 0:53
28	–	Elsbeth Vink	👁 Image NED	–	at 0:53
29	–	Jeanne Golay	👁 Image USA	–	at 0:53
30	–	Nataliya Kyshchuk	👁 Image UKR	–	at 0:53
31	–	Susy Pryde	👁 Image NZL	–	at 0:53
32	–	Roberta Bonanomi	👁 Image ITA	–	at 0:53
33	–	Rebecca Bailey	👁 Image NZL	–	at 0:53
34	–	Tea Vikstedt-Nyman	👁 Image FIN	–	at 0:53
35	–	Erica Green	👁 Image RSA	–	at 1:08
36	–	Linda Brenneman	👁 Image USA	–	at 4:14
37	–	Alison Dunlap	👁 Image USA	–	at 5:08
38	–	Marion Clignet	👁 Image FRA	–	at 5:37
39	–	Tracey Watson	👁 Image AUS	–	at 6:22
40	–	Fátima Blázquez	👁 Image ESP	–	at 10:14
41	–	Guo Xinghong	👁 Image CHN	–	at 13:34
42	–	Jackie Martin	👁 Image RSA	–	at 16:59
43	–	Caroline Alexander	👁 Image GBR	–	at 17:34
–	Linda Jackson	👁 Image CAN	–	–
–	Zhao Haijuan	👁 Image CHN	–	–
–	Dania Pérez	👁 Image CUB	–	–
–	Camille Solis	👁 Image BIZ	–	–
–	Svetlana Samokhvalova	👁 Image RUS	–	–
–	Ingunn Bollerud	👁 Image NOR	–	–
–	Alla Vasilenko	👁 Image KAZ	–	–
–	Diana Žiliūtė	👁 Image LTU	–	–
–	Jacqui Nelson	👁 Image NZL	–	–
–	Maureen Kaila	👁 Image ESA	–	–
–	Maritza Corredor	👁 Image COL	–	–
–	Ingrid Haringa	👁 Image NED	–	–
–	Kim Yong-Mi	👁 Image KOR	–	–
–	Svetlana Bubnenkova	👁 Image RUS	–	–
–	Izaskun Bengoa	👁 Image ESP	–	–

URL: https://www.olympedia.org/results/154918

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