Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's road time trial

Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
List of cyclists
Road cycling
Road race	men	women
	mixed
Time trial	men	women
	mixed
Team relay	mixed
Track cycling
Time trial	men	women
Individual pursuit	men	women
Individual sprint	men
Team sprint	mixed

Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Road cycling
Time trial
	Men	Women
Road time trial	B	B
	H1	H1–2
	H2
	H3	H3
	H4	H4
	C1	C1–3
	C2
	C3
	C4	C4
	C5	C5
	Mixed T1–2

The Men's road time trial cycling events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on September 5 at Brands Hatch.

Classification

Cyclists are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows cyclists to compete against others with a similar level of function. The class number indicates the severity of impairment with "1" being most impaired.

Cycling classes are:^[1]

• B: Blind and visually impaired cyclists use a Tandem bicycle with a sighted pilot on the front
• H 1–4: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their legs use a handcycle
• T 1–2: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their balance use a tricycle
• C 1-5: Cyclists with an impairment that affects their legs, arms and/or trunk but are capable of using a standard bicycle

B

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Christian Venge David Llaurado Caldero  Spain	Ivano Pizzi Lucca Pizzi  Italy	James Brown Damien Shaw  Ireland

H1

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mark Rohan  Ireland	Koby Lion  Israel	Wolfgang Schattauer  Austria

H2

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Heinz Frei  Switzerland	Walter Ablinger  Austria	Vittorio Podesta  Italy

H3

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rafał Wilk  Poland	Nigel Barley  Australia	Bernd Jeffre  Germany

H4

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alessandro Zanardi  Italy	Norbert Mosandl  Germany	Oscar Sanchez  United States

C1

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Michael Teuber  Germany	Mark Colbourne  Great Britain	Li Zhang Yu  China

C2

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Tobias Graf  Germany	Liang Guihua  China	Maurice Eckhard Tio  Spain

C3

Gold	Silver	Bronze
David Nicholas  Australia	Joseph Berenyi  United States	Masaki Fujita  Japan

C4

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jiří Ježek  Czech Republic	Carol-Eduard Novak  Romania	Jiri Bouska  Czech Republic

C5

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yegor Dementyev  Ukraine	Liu Xinyang  China	Michael Gallagher  Australia

References