Olympic Women's TT

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Emma Pooley riding off fifth set the benchmark time for all the following riders and only Kristin Armstrong of the USA was able to beat it.

Pooley followed her strong road race performance by being the fastest until the very last moments and she led all at the first time split. She had to wait until the final six riders to start before her time came under threat. Eventual winner Kristin Armstrong (USA) was down on time to Pooley at the top of the long climb, but she was able to make up her loses on the descent.

Armstrong also had the advantage of knowing the time to beat, and just maybe, if Pooley had gone in the final group she might have won.

Olympic road race champion Nicole Cooke was outside the top ten with a time of 37.14.25

Pos/No/Name/Country/1st split/final time
1 6 Kristin Armstrong USA 20:50.6 34:51.7 (40.445kph)
2 21 Emma Pooley GBR 20:47.0 35:16.0
3 17 Karin Thurig Switzerland 21:22.6 35:51.0
4 11 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli France 21:10.7 35:52.6
5 2 Christine Thorburn USA 21:22.4 35:54.2
6 13 Judith Arndt Germany 21:46.7 35:59.8
7 4 Christiane Soeder Austria 21:34.9 36:20.7
8 9 Priska Doppmann Switzerland 21:47.3 36:27.8
9 15 Zulfiya Zabirova Kazakhstan 21:48.0 36:29.5
10 5 Susanne Ljungskog Sweden 21:33.3 36:33.5
11 1 Hanka Kupfernagel Germany 22:16.1 36:35.1
12 12 Tatiana Guderzo Italy 21:29.8 36:38.0
13 14 Linda Serup Denmark 22:10.6 36:50.6
14 16 Marianne Vos Netherlands 21:49.8 36:58.7
15 3 Nicole Cooke GBR 22:36.4 37:14.3
16 23 Natalia Boyarskaya Russia 21:51.2 37:14.6
17 18 Min Gao China 22:08.9 37:15.2
18 10 Mirjam Melchers-Vanpoppel Netherlands 22:43.4 37:51.6
19 7 Marta Vilajosana Spain 22:41.3 37:55.0
20 20 Maryline Salvetat France 22:34.0 38:09.7
21 19 Emma Johansson Sweden 23:04.6 38:28.8
22 8 Oenone Wood Australia 23:48.9 38:53.5
23 22 Edita Pucinskaite Lithuania 23:04.0 38:55.4
24 25 Alexandra Wrubleski Canada 23:35.9 39:15.4
25 24 Lang Meng China 24:53.3 40:51.6