Men's Time Trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics (Cycling):

Tyler Hamilton, USA	Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russia	Bobby Julich , USA

Of the top riders, it soon became clear that Sydney 2000 time trial gold medal winner, Russian rider Viatcheslav Ekimov, was setting the time to beat. The current world time trial champion, Michael Rogers from Australia, appeared to match Ekimov's times, but faded in the final kilometres. Tyler Hamilton, from the USA, had problems with his radio shortly after the start, and rode the race effectively without radio communication. Hamilton finished strongly claiming the gold medal for the USA, averaging 50.062 km/h to finish the 48 km course in 57:31.74. Ekimov was awarded the silver medal, with a time of 57:50.58 nearly 19 seconds behind Hamilton. With Bobby Julich from the USA in a time of 57:58.19 inching out Michael Rogers (58:01.67) for the bronze medal.

Michael Rich (58:09.46) from Germany finished 37 seconds behind Hamilton for fifth, with Kazakhstan rider Alexandre Vinokourov 1:26 behind the leader. The last person to start, the 2000 Olympics road race winner and former world time trial champion, Jan Ulrich 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.

Tyler Hamilton's gold medal came into question when he failed a blood doping test. He was allowed to keep the tainted medal after a lab mix-up spoiled the backup blood sample.

Date: August 18

Start: 15:00

1. Tyler Hamilton, United States 57:31.74
2. Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russia 57:50.58
3. Bobby Julich, United States 57:58.19
4. Michael Rogers, Australia 58:01.67
5. Michael Rich , Germany 58:09.46
6. Alexandre Vinokourov, Kazakhstan 58:58.14
7. Jan Ullrich, Germany 59:02.04
8. Santiago Botero Echeverri, Colombia 59:04.76
9. Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano , Spain 59:27.25
10. Fabian Cancellara , Switzerland 59:42.38
11. Yuriy Krivtsov , Ukraine 59:49.40
12. Christophe Moreau, France 59:50.28
13. Marc Wauters , Belgium 59:59.63
14. Michal Hrazdira , Czech Republic 1:00:07.23
15. Victor Hugo Peña Grisales , Colombia 1:00:09.89
16. Jose Ivan Gutierrez , Spain 1:00:22.80
17. Rene Andrle , Czech Republic 1:00:27.29
18. Peter van Petegem , Belgium 1:00:31.49
19. Frank Hoj , Denmark 1:00:35.73
20. Thomas Dekker , Netherlands 1:00:37.49
21. Laszlo Bodrogi , Hungary 1:00:38.05
22. Serhiy Honchar , Ukraine 1:00:44.31
23. Evgeny Vakker , Kyrgyzstan 1:01:00.47
24. Sergio Paulinho, Portugal 1:01:21.10
25. Benoit Joachim , Luxembourg 1:01:25.63
26. Rubens Bertogliati , Switzerland 1:02:16.56
27. Kurt-Askle Arvesen , Norway 1:02:21.28
28. Evgeni Petrov , Russia 1:02:50.32
29. Stuart Dangerfield, Great Britain 1:03:00.72
30. Dawid Krupa , Poland 1:03:07.05
31. Thor Hushovd, Norway 1:03:10.36
32. Heath Blackgrove , New Zealand 1:03:20.11
33. Thomas Lovkvist , Sweden 1:03:43.70
34. Gorazd Stangelj , Slovenia 1:03:45:84
35. Matej Jurco , Slovakia 1:04:22.58
36. Slawomir Kohut , Poland 1:06:19.29

DNF - Andrey Kashechkin , Kazakhstan
DNS - Filippo Pozzato , Italy
DNS - Rober Hunter , South Africa

(DNS/F = Did Not Start/Finish)