Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's 12 hour race

Men's 12 hour race at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Neo Phaliron Velodrome
Date	April 13
Competitors	7 from 4 nations
Medalists
Adolf Schmal Austria   Frederick Keeping Great Britain

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Road cycling
Road race		men
Track cycling
Time trial		men
Sprint		men
10 km		men
100 km		men
12 hour		men

The men's 12 hour race was one of five track cycling events on the Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. It was the final event of the 1896 Summer Olympics, ending at 5 p.m. on 13 April.

Results

Place	Athlete	Distance
1	Adolf Schmal (AUT)	314.997 km
2	Frederick Keeping (GBR)	314.664 km
–	Georgios Paraskevopoulos (GRE)	DNF
	Nikos Loverdos (GRE)	Retired at 3 hours
	A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris (GRE)	Retired at 3 hours
	Joseph Welzenbacher (GER)	Retired at 3 hours
	Konstantinos Konstantinou (GRE)	Retired at 3 hours

The final cycling race began at 5 a.m. on 13 April. Seven athletes began the race, though four of them dropped out before noon and a fifth gave up in the afternoon. Schmal had lapped the rest of the cyclists early in the race and rode along with Keeping for the rest of the contest, winning by that one lap.

References

• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck.  (Digitally available at )
• Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9.  (Excerpt available at )
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.