Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

In the Summer Olympics 2008, two competitions were held in the triathlon, one for each gender. The Olympic distance triathlon includes 1500 meter swim, 40 km cycling and a 10,000 -meter run. A total of 55 women and 55 men walked on the triathlon competitions in Beijing at the start. Venue was the reservoir at the Ming Tombs.

Date: August 19, 2008, 10:00 Clock participants: Alistair Brownlee United Kingdom United Kingdom ( 1:50:19,62 h/12. ) Christian Prochnow Germany Germany ( 1:50:33,90 H/15. ) Bradley Kahlefeldt Australia ( 1:50:36,00 H/16. ) Olivier Marceau Switzerland Switzerland ( 1:50:50,07 h/19. ) Dmitri Andreevich Polyansky Russia Russia ( 1:51:10 h/22. ) Sven Riederer Switzerland Switzerland ( 1:51:19,45 h/23. ) Dirk Bockel Luxembourg Luxembourg ( 1:51:31,01 h/25. ) Juraci Moreira Brazil Brazil ( 1:51:35,57 h/26. ) Reto Hug Switzerland Switzerland ( 1:52:04,93 h/29. ) Reinaldo Colucci Brazil Brazil ( 1:53:13 h/37. ) Simon Agoston Austria Austria ( 1:53:23,98 h/38. ) Pavel Šimko Slovakia Slovakia DNF

Women

Date: August 18, 2008, 10:00 Clock Participants:

Sarah Haskins United States United States ( 2:01:21 h/11. ) Magali Di Marco Messmer Switzerland Switzerland ( 2:01:50,74 h/13. ) Kate Allen of Austria Austria ( 2:02:00,69 H/14. ) Ricarda Lisk Germany Germany ( 2:02:07,75 H/15. ) Samantha Warriner New Zealand New Zealand ( 2:02:12 H/16. ) Lisa Nordén Sweden Sweden ( 2:02:27,47 h/18. ) Julie Ertel United States United States ( 2:02:39,22 h/19. ) Ana Burgos Spain ( 2:02:42 h/20. ) Helen Jenkins United Kingdom United Kingdom ( 2:02:54 h/21. ) Erin Densham Australia ( 2:03:07 h/22. ) Vendula Frintová Czech Republic Czech Republic ( 2:03:27 h/23. ) Julia Jelistratowa Ukraine Ukraine ( 2:03:33 h/24. ) Christiane Pilz Germany Germany ( 2:03:46,82 h/26. ) Tania Haiböck Austria Austria ( 2:04:03,16 h/27. ) Kathy Tremblay Canada Canada ( 2:05:22 h/31. ) Kate Roberts South Africa South Africa ( 2:05:33,24 h/32. ) Anja Dittmer Germany Germany ( 2:05:45,86 H/33. ) Liz May Luxembourg Luxembourg ( 2:07:55,58 h/41. ) Mari Rabie South Africa South Africa ( 2:09:27 h/43. ) Eva Dollinger Austria Austria DNF (retired on the bike with techn. Problems)

Medal Triathlon

Qualification

The best eight NOCs were allowed to nominate up to three athletes, all other NOCs two. The continental champions of 2007 were directly qualified, were added the first three of the World Championships 2008. Had a top 3 place already occupied on the continental precipitations qualified athletes at the World Championships, moved the next ranked athlete according to the World Championship. The best participants of each continent in the Olympic Qualification Ranking (in which the main results are evaluated from June 2006 to June 2008 ), as well as a Chinese starter had automatic start right. All remaining grid positions to 53 were distributed on the qualifications ladder. The last two starting places were awarded by wildcard.

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