Olympedia – Cross-Country, Men

Cross-Country, Men

Date	30 July 1996 — 10:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Mountainbike Course, Georgia International Horse Park, Conyers, Georgia
Participants	43 from 26 countries
Format	48.7 km. (30.3 miles).

Date

30 July 1996 — 10:00

Status

Olympic

Location

Mountainbike Course, Georgia International Horse Park, Conyers, Georgia

Participants

43 from 26 countries

Format

48.7 km. (30.3 miles).

This was the Olympic début for mountain biking at the Olympics. World Championships had been conducted since 1990, with American Ned Overend winning the first title in Durango, Colorado. Denmark’s Henrik Djernis won the world title in 1992-94, but did not compete in Atlanta. The 1995 World Champion was Bart Brentjens (NED), and he was favored along with Switzerland’s Thomas Frischknecht, runner-up at the three first World Championships, and he would win the world title later in 1996. Brentjens took an immediate lead in the race, as he and Italy’s Luca Bramati broke away early. But Brentjens broke Bramati by the halfway point, and Brentjen pulled away to an easy victory, winning by over 2½ minutes from Frischknecht.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Time	Margin
1	Bart Brentjens	NED	2-17:38	–	Gold
2	Thomas Frischknecht	SUI	–	at 2:36	Silver
3	Miguel Martinez	FRA	–	at 2:58	Bronze
4	Christophe Dupouey	FRA	–	at 7:25
5	Daniele Pontoni	ITA	–	at 7:30
6	José Andrés Brenes	CRC	–	at 8:13
7	Lennie Kristensen	DEN	–	at 8:24
8	Luca Bramati	ITA	–	at 8:27
9	Cadel Evans	AUS	–	at 8:37
10	Ralph Berner	GER	–	at 10:07
11	Rune Høydahl	NOR	–	at 10:38
12	Gary Foord	GBR	–	at 11:32
13	Warren Sallenback	CAN	–	at 12:19
14	Beat Wabel	SUI	–	at 14:39
15	David Baker	GBR	–	at 14:52
16	Rob Woods	AUS	–	at 15:36
17	Roel Paulissen	BEL	–	at 16:15
18	Jan Østergaard	DEN	–	at 16:52
19	Tinker Juarez	USA	–	at 17:37
20	Don Myrah	USA	–	at 18:12
21	Roger Persson	SWE	–	at 19:39
22	Jokin Mujika	ESP	–	at 23:37
23	Jhon Arias	COL	–	at 24:26
24	Radovan Fořt	CZE	–	at 25:05
25	Martin Earley	IRL	–	at 26:18
26	Kyoshi Miura	JPN	–	at 27:25
27	Márcio Ravelli	BRA	–	at 27:38
28	Ernst Denifl	AUT	–	at 27:56
29	Marek Galiński	POL	–	at 28:16
30	Peter Hric	SVK	–	at 28:44
31	Andreas Hestler	CAN	–	at 29:07
32	Alister Martin	IRL	–	at 30:08
33	Pavel Camrda	CZE	–	at 31:31
34	Juan Arias	COL	–	at 33:06
35	Ivanir Lopes	BRA	–	at 35:51
36	Sławomir Barul	POL	–	at 36:18
DNF	Latauro Chávez	ARG	–	–
DNF	Rory Gonsalves	ANT	–	–
DNF	Alges Maasikmets	EST	–	–
DNF	Mike Kluge	GER	–	–
DNF	Roberto Lezaún	ESP	–	–
DNF	Marcel Arntz	NED	–	–
DNF	Peter Van Den Abeele	BEL	–	–

Pos

Competitor

NOC

Time

Margin

Bart Brentjens

NED