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Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial

The men's 1 kilometre time trial in Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the thirty-two cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for four laps (1 kilometre) of the track.

Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 1000m time trial

The men's 1 kilometre time trial in Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the twenty cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for four laps (1 kilometre) of the track.

Joane Somarriba

She also achieved a time trial victory at the 2003 World Championships in Hamilton, Canada.

Verena Jooß

She won the bronze medal at the 2006 World University Cycling Championship in the time trial behind Ellen van Dijk and Loes Gunnewijk.

Vladimir Karpets

In the 2004 Tour de France, he used his strong time trialing abilities to defeat Thomas Voeckler in the youth classification on the penultimate stage.

Zak Carr

Zak Carr (born March 6, 1975 Norwich, Norfolk, died 17 October 2005) was a British cyclist who specialised in the time trial discipline.


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1990 Giro d'Italia

The route also contained stage 19 individual time trial, which had a summit finish to Sacro Monte di Varese.

2003 UCI Road World Championships

David Millar was handed a two-year ban and stripped of his world time trial title by the British cycling federation for taking the banned performance enhancer EPO.

2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's 500 m time trial

The Women's 500m Time Trial is one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.

2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships – Men's 1 km time trial

The men's 1 km time trial was part of the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, held in Montichiari, Italy in March 2011.

2012 Tirreno–Adriatico

It started on 7 March in Donoratico and ended on 13 March in San Benedetto del Tronto and consisted of seven stages, including a team time trial to begin the race and an individual time trial to conclude it.

Alexander Petrovskiy

He delivered the Russian foursome of Alexei Markov, Alexander Serov, and Nikolay Trusov an eighth-place time of 4:06.518 in the prelims before his team was later relegated and overlapped to the Brits (led by Olympic time trial champion Bradley Wiggins) in the fourth match round.

ANC-Halfords Cycling Team

The team turned up in Berlin and were promised the best equipment such as specialist time-trial cycles.

Ariostea

That followed a team time trial win on Stage 2 into Chassieu that put Rolf Sørensen in the maillot jaune for four days.

Austria at the 1896 Summer Olympics

In the time trial event, Schmal tied for second place Stamatios Nikolopoulos.

Ballinahown

Mark Rohan from Ballinahown, a former Under 21 footballer with Westmeath until a car accident, won a gold medal in the 2012 Summer Paralympics on 5 September 2012 in the individual H1 time trial.

Belgian National Time Trial Championships

In 2000 the Rik Verbrugghe was crowned champion, who holds the record for the fastest average speed in a time trial race in a Grand Tour, which he achieved by winning the 2001 Giro d'Italia prologue.

Bernard Hinault

This tour became a battle with Joop Zoetemelk, Hinault taking the yellow jersey after the final time trial.

Burnley Tunnel

One was Australian Olympic cyclist Damian McDonald, who won a gold medal in the road team time trial at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada, and also represented Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Chamrousse

The climb of Chamrousse was used in the mountain time-trial in the 2001 Tour de France.

Claudio Chiappucci

In subsequent stages he resisted the return of Greg LeMond, only losing the lead of the race in stage 20, the final time trial.

Cox box

This is of particular importance in Head of the River (time trial) races where the crews race line astern and so performance of other crews cannot be easily gauged.

Cycling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's individual time trial

The men's individual time trial event was part of the road cycling programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Cycling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial

The men's team time trial event was part of the road cycling programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial

The last person to start, the 2000 Olympics road race winner and former world time trial champion Jan Ullrich from Germany, could not match the pace and ended with a time of 59:02.04, one and a half minutes behind Hamilton in seventh position.

Cycling at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics – Combined mixed team

The venues were at Tampines Bike Park for the Cross Country, Boys’ Time Trial and BMX and The Float at Marina Bay for Girls’ Time Trial and the Road Race.

Danilo Di Luca

During his time at Saeco-Longoni he lost the Vuelta al País Vasco on the last stage, a mountain time trial in which Andreas Klöden took the lead and the win.

Dave Le Grys

At the 2007 Championships, held at the Dunc Gray Velodrome in Sydney, he won gold in the 500m Time Trial (50-54 age group) and silver in the 750m Team Sprint

David Arroyo

He kept it through two mountain stages and the climbing time trial to Kronplatz, but lost it to eventual Giro champion Ivan Basso in stage 19.

Eric Vanderaerden

In the Tour de France, his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage.

F-1 World Grand Prix

The game consists of five gameplay modes: Grand Prix, a course-by-course simulation of the 1997 season; Exhibition, a single race; Time Trial, a race against the clock and Challenge, which comprised real scenarios from the 1997 season-examples include trying to win the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix as Damon Hill or beating Jean Alesi as David Coulthard in the 1997 Italian Grand Prix.

Giovanni Battaglin

He withstood the final test – the final stage’s individual time trial to win the race in Verona ahead of Tommy Prim.

Imtiaz Bhatti

He made Pakistan cycling records and represented Pakistan by competing in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics where he was placed 1st among the Asian cyclists and 25th in the world in the 1000m time trial.

Independent Fabrication

Giana Roberge won the 2004 world masters time-trial championship in Austria on an XS.

Janez Brajkovič

He finished 7th in the time trial, helped sprinter Max van Heeswijk win two stages, and finished in the top 20 in the General Classification won by Bobby Julich of Team CSC.

Joe Breeze

A downhill time trial on fire roads in the hills west of Fairfax, California, Repack brought together riders from around Mount Tamalpais who stripped down older bikes for off-road use and fitted rugged parts to them.

Jonathan Castroviejo

The Romandie stage win was, however, not a complete shock – earlier in the season, Castroviejo had finished eighth in the time trial which closed out Tirreno–Adriatico, besting the times of riders such as Gustav Larsson, Cadel Evans, and David Zabriskie, all of whom have reputations as time trial specialists.

Jonathan Vaughters

In 2001, he won the time trial in the Dauphine Libere, and the Duo Normand with teammate Jens Voigt.

Karen Dunne

United States Association of Blind Athletes National Championships: Gold medals - Mixed Tandem Pursuit and Kilometer Time Trial

United States Association of Blind Athletes National Championships: Gold medals - Mixed Tandem Match Sprints and Kilometer Time Trial

Mari Holden

The following year, she won a silver medal at the Olympics, followed by a victory two weeks later in the world time trial championship in Plouay, France.

Markus Fothen

In 2003 Fothen won the under-23 World Championship time trial in Hamilton, Canada.

Mélodie Lesueur

Moinard became French national road race champion in 2010 and became European champion in the under-23 individual time trial at the 2011 European Road Championships.

Michel Vaarten

He represented Belgium at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, where he won silver medal in the 1.000m time trial behind East Germany's Klaus-Jürgen Grünke.

Monica Bandini

Her biggest achievement was winning the world title in the women's team time trial (1988), alongside Maria Canins, Roberta Bonanomi, and Francesca Galli.

Robert Lechner

Robert Lechner (born 22 January 1967 in Bruckmühl) is a retired track cyclist who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, winning a bronze medal in the 1000 metres time trial.

Stuart Dangerfield

However, Millar's admission to using the illegal drug EPO and consequent expulsion from the Great Britain squad for the 2004 Summer Olympics meant that Dangerfield was called up into the Olympic squad to race the time trial.

Vito Favero

The 1958 Tour de France has been compared to the 2006 Tour de France: Both Charly Gaul and Floyd Landis were favourites halfway the Tour, both lost dramatically at a stage, but at a later stage made a great comeback, which put them close to the two leaders (Favero-Raphaël Géminiani and Óscar Pereiro-Carlos Sastre, and the day before the last stage to Paris they overtook the two leaders in an individual time trial.